Squeak as (and) "Das Glasperlenspiel"

Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
Mon Jan 3 17:22:10 UTC 2000


On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 12:51:32PM +0100, Henrik Gedenryd wrote:
> Kokan wrote:
> 
> > 1) "Why the Computer Revolution hasn't happened yet?" (Alan's last
> > year's talk
> > at CMU): Is there a transcript of it or something like that? If not,
> > what would be
> > Squeak's role in helping with it (Computer Revolution)?
> 
> Marcus Denker posted these a while ago:
> 
Here are some more links: 


> 
> Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet!
> http://www.educause.edu/conference/e98/webcast98.html
> 
There are some different versions of this talk: 

  OOPSLA97 "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet"
  http://www.uvc.com/videos/oo97Kay.video.html
  (Video Tape, $39.99)

  RealAudio, "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet."
  http://www.jtsa.edu/lehrhaus/fall1997/akay/

  Giorgia Tech, March 5 1997
  http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/radio-idt/speakers/akay.html

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Some other talks/articles from Alan:

  http://www.cel.sfsu.edu/msp/lectureseries/archive96/welcome.html
  Multimedia Pinoneers -- Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, Alan Kay

  What would it take to configure a Dynabook today?
  http://www.egroups.com/group/squeak/243.html?

  "A Conversation with Alan" interactions, April 1994
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/interactions/1994-1-2/p13-frenkel/ 


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The original articles are not available online:

  Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg: Personal Dynamic Media

  "Computer" Volume 10 No. 3, mar 1977 pp 31-44

  reprinted in: Adele Goldberg "History of Personal Workstations"
  Addison-Wesley, Reading 1988 ISBN 0-201-11259-0 

  (As someone said: "Possibly one of the most important, but least read
                     articles in computing.")

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  Alan Kay  "The Early History of Smalltalk"

  Bergin, Jr., T.J., and R.G. Gibson.
  History of Programming Languages - II
  ACM Press, New York NY, and Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading MA 1996
  pp. 511-578

  reprinted: (better for making paper-copies)
  ACM SIGPLAN VOL. 28 No. 3 March 93 pp 69- 
  (without the HOPL-talk)

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  A personal Computer for Children of all ages.
  Proceedings of the ACM Nation Conference, Boston, 1972

  A dynamic medium for creative thought Proceedings of the National
  Council of Teachers of English Conference , Fall 72

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  Alan Kay "Computer Software"
  Scientific American Vol 251 No. 3 September 1984 pp. 41 - 47
  German translation: Spektrum 10/85

  Alan Kay "Computers, Networks and Education"
  Scientific American Sept. 1991 pp 100-107

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Some articles about Alan (and the Dynabook):

Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold, Chapter 11:
"The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier" http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.html

Lazere, Cathy, and Dennis Sasha.
Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists.
Dub-Copernicus. New York, NY 1995.
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I'l put these Links and references on the Wiki in the next days. 

  Marcus 

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"Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try
 it; it could ruin your life." -- Andy Bower





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