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<DIV>Hi Alan,<BR><BR> Congratulations for your
determination to <BR> finish off the Dynabook
project.<BR><BR>> "I agree with HP on the need to support<BR>>
standards-based, modular systems,..."<BR><BR> This is
interesting, considering Squeak<BR> is now known as "a
set of authoring tools".<BR><BR> Don't I wish to have a
glimpse at the crystal ball ;-)<BR><BR>
Cheers,<BR><BR> PhiHo.<BR></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Alan.Kay@squeakland.org href="mailto:Alan.Kay@squeakland.org">Alan
Kay</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
href="mailto:squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org">squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:26
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Alan Kay to Join HP</DIV>
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<DIV>One of the nice side benefits is that HP already does lots of open source
stuff and was extremely supportive of keeping Viewpoints Research Institute
(the nonprofit we set up after Disney) open and flourishing. Squeak and
Croquet will always be open source. I think there is lots of potential in this
new relationship.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Alan</DIV>
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<DIV>At 4:53 AM -0500 11/26/02, Gary Fisher wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=-1>Wow!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=-1>I can't think of any company
or group of companies which has done more to get computing technology into
the hands of people than HP/DEC/Compaq, nor a more appropriate setting
for "The Future: Part Two" to move from ideaspace to reality. If you
think the past ten years have been exciting, hang onto your hats --
the best part of the ride is just ahead!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=-1>Gary</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:jumpstart@csi.com">William
Cole</A></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:m.rueger@acm.org">m.rueger@acm.org</A> ; <A
href="mailto:andreas.raab@gmx.de">andreas.raab@gmx.de</A> ; <A
href="mailto:squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org">squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org</A></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 25, 2002 11:52 PM</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><B>Subject:</B> Alan Kay to Join HP</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>November 26, 2002<BR><BR>A Computing Pioneer of the 1970's
Joins Hewlett-Packard<BR><BR>By STEVE
LOHR<BR><BR> Alan Kay, a personal computing
innovator who was a leader of Xerox's<BR>pioneering Palo Alto Research
Center in the 1970's, has joined<BR>
Hewlett-Packard as a senior researcher.<BR><BR>His arrival at
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, which the company is<BR>announcing today,
comes at a time when the company is hoping that research<BR>can point to
new markets in personal computing and give the company an edge<BR>against
Dell Computer - the pacesetter in today's personal<BR>computer business
and a company known more for operational excellence than<BR>product
innovation.<BR><BR>Hiring Dr. Kay is an investment in Hewlett-Packard's
innovation strategy.<BR>Throughout his career, Dr. Kay has worked on the
design concepts and<BR>underlying technology to improve the interaction
between people and<BR>computers. In the late 1960's, when computing was
done on room-size<BR>mainframe computers, Dr. Kay described a concept
computer he called the<BR>Dynabook. It would weigh little more than a
book; rest on the user's<BR>lap; and come with a flat-panel screen, a
keyboard and a stylus, since it<BR>would recognize handwriting. It would
communicate wirelessly.<BR><BR>The computer industry has been pursuing the
Dynabook ever since. The<BR>recently introduced Tablet PC models, made by
PC companies like<BR>Hewlett-Packard and running Microsoft software, is
the latest entry.<BR><BR>At the Xerox research center, better known as
PARC, Dr. Kay led the team<BR>that put a graphics-capable display,
overlapping windows, icons and a<BR>point-and-click user interface into a
working computer called the Alto.<BR>Apple's Macintosh and Microsoft's
Windows are descendants of the Alto.<BR><BR>Dr. Kay and a few PARC
colleagues, notably Dan Ingalls and Adele Goldberg,<BR>also developed
Smalltalk, an influential programming language that<BR>uses blocks of
code, known as objects, that are put together, like the<BR>cells that make
up the human body, to build applications.<BR><BR>At Hewlett-Packard, Dr.
Kay, who is 62, intends to continue pursuing his<BR>goal of improving the
experience of computing. "The goal is to show<BR>what the next big
relationship between people and computing is likely to<BR>be," Dr. Kay
said in an interview.<BR><BR>The best way to do that, Dr. Kay explained,
is to build prototypes that<BR>will "show ideas in motion."<BR><BR>"The
trick for a person like me," he added, "is that you get people
most<BR>excited by something that looks like a product. And I'm betting
that some of<BR>it will be interesting to H.P."<BR><BR>With the PC
business in the doldrums, many executives and analysts say they<BR>believe
that the industry is entering maturity. Dr. Kay disagrees.<BR>Personal
computing, he insisted, is "ripe for new markets - I don't think<BR>the
real computing revolution has happened yet."<BR><BR>Dr. Kay declined to
discuss his ideas precisely. Starting at Xerox PARC, he<BR>has focused on
trying to make computing an engaging medium for play</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>and learning, and he has often worked with children. After
PARC, Dr. Kay<BR>held research positions at Atari, Apple and Disney, where
his five-year<BR>contract ended in September 2001. Since then, he has
worked mainly at a<BR>nonprofit organization he helped found, the
Viewpoints Research<BR>Institute, which seeks to find ways to use
computing to improve education<BR>for children as well as their
understanding of complex systems like<BR>software.<BR><BR>Since he left
Disney, Dr. Kay has been approached by other technology<BR>companies
besides Hewlett-Packard. But the person who recruited him
at<BR>Hewlett-Packard, Patrick Scaglia, who heads Internet and
computing<BR>platforms research, had studied under the same professor,
Dave Evans, at<BR>the University of Utah, which was a wellspring of early
computer graphics<BR>research.<BR><BR>"Ultimately, it comes down to the
vibes and trust," Dr. Kay said of his<BR>decision to join
Hewlett-Packard.</BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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