Current Status
The current version of the VSIPL API is 1.02, issued February 26, 2002. This update corrects a number of minor errata.  A list of changes in included on pages 678 and 679 of the document. 

VSIPL API 1.1 is available for public review and comment. Comments are due November 15, 2002.

December 2002 Forum Meeting
The next forum meeting will be held December 11, 2002 at MIT Lincoln Lab, Lexington, MA in conjunction with the HPEC-SI meeting. VSIPL Forum will come out of "maintenance mode" and meet for initial consideration of a C++ binding proposal.

First VSIPL User's Group Meeting
The first VSIPL Tutorial and User's Group Meeting was held February 27-28, 2002 on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta. Click here to view meeting info including agenda and tutorial presentations.

August 2001 Forum Meeting
The Forum discussed details of the 1.01 upgrades as well as a number of errata.  Coordination with the High Performance Embedded Computing Software initiative (HPEC-SI; http://www.tasp.org/HPEC-SI/) was reviewed.  Numerous planning details of the VSIPL User's Group meeting were discussed. For more details, see the minutes. 

March 2001 Forum Meeting
The forum approved the VSIPL 1.01 document, encompassing minor corrections to the VSIPL 1.0 API, by unanimous vote of the institutions present.  Also considered a revised approach to image processing, additional linear algebra functions, and I/O functions. For more details, see the minutes.

January 2001 Forum Meeting
At the January 2001 meeting, the forum reviewed a draft of the VSIPL 1.01 standard and considered functionality for VSIPL 1.1. Robert Graybill of DARPA gave a talk on the Polymorphous Computing Architecture program, and Ed Baranoski of MIT Lincoln Laboratory described a new embedded software standardization initiative. James Lebak, Rick Pancoast, and Mark Richards were elected co-chairs by acclamation. For more details, see the minutes.

July 2000 Forum Meeting
VSIPL Forum met at SKY Computers, Inc., in Chelmsford, MA, 25-26 July. Worked through v1.0 errata. Discussed API document maintenance. Prioritized Journal of Development items. Updated on Test Suite for Core Lite profile and discusses extending Test Suite. Had a presentation by Chip Weems of UMass/Amherst on image processing. See the minutes of the Forum for more detail.