Alan,

I think this is fantastic and so well deserved!
Your many contributions to personal computing impact all that use computers
today and will no doubt inspire architects and inventors of the future. The
Squeakers DVD made me realize that your focus and work toward changing how
children absorb math and science is a significant achievement of no less
importance.

Congratulations Alan!

Brad


P.S. I'm sure you don't remember me, I had lunch at your table at a Digitalk
conference; maybe it was the _only_ Digitalk conference ;-) I'm not a power
user of Smalltalk -- my trade is music composition and I've used Smalltalk
off and on for a number of years for applications in my work. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Dan Ingalls
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:05 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: The Big One
> 
> Folks -
> 
> It's a delight to forward this release from the ACM.  It says 
> it all  ...except it's actually bit modest about the original 
> spark if you ask me.  Others on the team did a lot to make it 
> real, but the cool idea behind Smalltalk was all Alan's.
> 
> 	http://www.squeakland.org/images/news/html/turing03.htm
> 
> You GO guy!
> 
> 	- Dan
> 
> 
>