Tracing the Dynabook: A Dissertation

Brad Fuller brad at bradfuller.com
Fri Jan 19 00:56:25 UTC 2007


Can't wait to read it. Congratulations on the defense.

John Maxwell wrote:
> Hi, everybody,
> 
> For the past few years, I have been working on a historical study on the
> Dynabook vision as conceived in the early 1970s as well as how the idea
> and its various incarnations have played out in the intervening
> three-and-a-half decades. This has been part of my PhD work in education
> at the University of BC -- as such, I am working from an educational
> perspective, rather than a compsci one.
> 
> As of November 2006 I finally finished the thing, and successfully
> defended it. I hereby unleash it on this community, in the hopes that it
> will provoke discussion on the Squeak-oriented mailing lists and beyond.
> Squeak-dev and Squeakland have been major resources to me all the while,
> and I'd like to thank everyone on these lists for providing such a rich
> ongoing commentary.
> 
> The entire work is roughly 300 pages. This link is to a PDF just under 2
> megabytes. At some point, if I have some time, I want to break this out
> into some more granular web pages, but I'm already late in releasing it,
> so here it is in its entirety. You can find it (along with a brief
> abstract and ToC) at:
> 
>   http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/Dynabook/dissertation
> 
> I'm very interested in any comments you might have.
> 
> 
>  - John Maxwell
>    Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing
>    Simon Fraser University
>    jmax at sfu.ca
> 
> 
> 


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brad fuller
www.bradfuller.com



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