squeakland August 2006

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Making Cultural simulations on Kedama
by Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hi all, First, thanks for the SqueakFest2006. It was really awesome to be here, to know all that squeakers, to listen them, and to speak with them (a little). If love is the key to make visitors become residents, thanks for such warm act of love in such nice city :) I'm now getting back to my academical activities and I'm wondering, after the speak of Yoshiki, if Kedama can be used to make cultural simulations also (may be you remember that I'm interested in the "Cultural Thing" of cognition also). I'm thinking to start with a specific simulations showed in the book The Complexity of Cooperation from Robert Axelrod. It's about culture dissemination. Axelrod model different cultures as part of a grid (that where the idea of using Kedama come from). Every culture is a cell in that grid and every culture has a number of traits (for example 5) wich can have different values (lets say 10). What Axelrod says is that when two agents (cultures) are similar one to each other (it' means they share the same value in the same trait) they have more possibilities to interact and become even more similar. The algorithm is something like this: Repeat these two steps as much as wanted: 1) Select randomly a culture in the grid and select randomly a neighbor of that culture (in such grid neighbors can be on north, south, west or est). 2) This two cultures interact with a probability equal to their cultural similarity (that is, the number of similar values in the same trait of these two cultures). That interaction consist in selecting a trait where this two cultures are different and change the value of that trait for the value of the neighbor. The process define a set of culture regions. You can find the source code of the implementation of Axelrod's algorithm in: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/Software/CC/CC7/CULTURE.P.html (<- Pascal version) http://www.cscs.umich.edu/Software/CC/CC7/FullCulture.p.html (<- Full Pascal version) http://www.cscs.umich.edu/Software/CC/CC7/CULTURE.BAS.html (<- Visual Basic version) ¿Do you think is feasible to implement the same model in Kedama? If yes, ¿Where is the best way to start implementing it? Thanks a lot, Offray Ps: I will be probably on Wikimania next weekend (I have the scholarship acceptance and now I'm trying to get the proper permissions in the University). So may be we can see there :). ___________________________________ AVISO LEGAL: El presente correo electronico no representa la opinion o el consentimiento oficial de la PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA. Este mensaje es confidencial y puede contener informacion privilegiada la cual no puede ser usada ni divulgada a personas distintas de su destinatario. Esta prohibida la retencion, grabacion, utilizacion, aprovechamiento o divulgacion con cualquier proposito. Si por error recibe este mensaje, por favor destruya su contenido y avise a su remitente. En este aviso legal se omiten intencionalmente las tildes. Este mensaje ha sido revisado por un sistema antivirus, por lo que su contenido esta libre de virus. This e-mail has been scanned by an antivirus system, so its contents is free of viruses.

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Re: [Squeakland] squeakland plugin for unix
by Brad Fuller 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi All, New to this list. I submitted the following email to squeak-dev. Anyone here answer these? ======================= a few questions on the squeakland browser plugin for unix, if someone in-the-know can answer: Is the squeakland image special? (different from the regular ol' squeak images?) Is the vm different too? Or is the only difference the npspeak.so file and the symbolic link it creates (e.g. create symbolic link `/usr/lib/firefox-1.5/plugins/npsqueak.so' to `/usr/lib/squeak/3.7-7/npsqueak.so') I'm afraid the squeakland vm will overwrite my current vm. Is that needless worrying? Can I run them independently (that is without changing directories and creating links so they don't interfere in the "default" installation process) ======================= BTW: I receive this error: 'Error loading http://www.squeakland.org/uploads/WeaselEssay1.015/resource.10.form when loading the project on this page: http://www.squeakland.org/whatis/a_essays.html

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Call for Participation - C5-07 Kyoto Japan
by Kim Rose 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

Dear Squeaklanders, Please find the official call for participation for "C5-07". This year, we are planning for both a K-12 track presentation track, and for field trip(s) to K-12 schools and other learning environments using Squeak Etoys and other tools and methods of creating and collaborating. If you are able to arrange to join us in Kyoto next January, we are sure you'd find the conference, attendees and accompanying activities stimulating and full of opportunity for learning, sharing and networking. We hope you can join us! -- Kim Please distribute this "call" among your communities and colleagues. Information on attending (but not presenting at) the conference will be on the official site shortly. ============================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The Fifth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2007) January 24 - 26, 2007, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/ Organized by Hewlett-Packard Company Kyoto University 21st Century COE Program for Knowledge Society Infrastructure Viewpoints Research Institute SCOPE Computers, networks, and other forms of technology are now pervasive in our information-based society. However, most users still function as passive consumers of technology. To evolve into a true knowledge society, it is critical that we transform computer-based human activities to engage users in the active process of creating, connecting, and collaborating together. The C5 conference is for researchers, technology developers, educators, and technology users who are concerned about developing and enabling human-oriented creation, connection, and collaboration processes. C5 is an international forum for presenting ongoing work as well as new work currently under development and for discussing future needs and directions in creative computing and multimedia authoring environments. We welcome equally the submission of technical papers and practitioner/experience reports for paper presentations. In addition, we are adding a workshop track for the third day of the conference and are soliciting proposals for half-day and full-day interactive workshops. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include but not limited to - Development and applications of collaboration tools and environments - User collaboration utilizing 3D, multimedia, and animation objects - Technologies for creating educational environments - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL) - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), distributed work, and virtual teaming - Hybrid technology activities, such as scientific experiments, instrumentation, robots, and game playing - Development of applications/content for non traditional learning environments, e.g. mentoring, peer-to-peer, "teacherless" environments (in developing countries), e.g., $100 laptop - Applications and tools for education from K-12 through higher education PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Original papers concerned with both theory and practice are solicited. A full paper with 8 page limit should be submitted by the paper submission deadline. The papers are reviewed by the program comittee and authors will be notified about acceptance. Accepted authors have to submit a camera ready version of the full paper with 8 page limit by the camera-ready copy deadline. Papers should follow the formatting instructions provided by 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format of "IEEE Computer Society Press - Proceedings Author Guidelines" (please refer to "INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS" at http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp). Submitted papers and camera-ready papers should be sent electronically through our online submission site (http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-07/myreview/). The PDF, Postscript and MS-WORD formats are acceptable. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL GUIDELINES The third day of the conference (Jan. 26, 2007) has been allotted for workshops and field trips. The workshop day is intended to offer conference participants the opportunity to learn more about human-oriented creation, connection, and collaboration processes and tools through interactive group experiences. Workshops allow conference participants to apply what they have learned in the plenary sessions and paper presentations through hands-on activities, facilitated discussions, and field trips to schools and sites offering technology-enabled learning activities. Workshop proposals should include workshop title, description of topic, workshop organizers, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) and estimated expenses (printing, etc.). Proposals should be sent to the conference contact e-mail address indicated at the conference web page. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: October 16, 2006 Workshop proposals: October 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2006 Full paper camera-ready copies: January 7, 2007 Proposals for demos and posters: January 7, 2007 PUBLICATION Preliminary version of the proceedings will be distributed during the conference. The formal version of the proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and sent to authors after the conference. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary Co-Chairs Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA Makoto Nagao, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Conference Co-Chairs Kim Rose, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA Katsumi Tanaka , Kyoto University, Japan Program Co-Chairs Benay Dara-Abrams, DALaboratories, USA Rieko Kadobayashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Rick McGeer, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA Kazuyuki Moriya, Kyoto University, Japan Workshop Track Chair Benay Dara-Abrams, DALaboratories, USA Local Arrangement Chair Hajime Kita, Kyoto University, Japan Publicity and Publication Chair Hideyuki Takada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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SqueakFest '07 - suggestion of dates
by Paulo Drummond 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

As some squeakers from abroad may want to attend other events while in the U.S., I leave here a suggestion for SF'07 dates: to be closer, for example, to NECC2007 (june 24-27) Paulo

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Wizard Schools (have you heard about them?)
by Daniel Ajoy 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

I'm not sure where I got this from. But it's quite interesting: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/07/wizard-school.html Daniel

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another account of Squeakfest 06
by Daniel Ajoy 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Thursday, July 20, 2006 Innovation in education http://www.innovationcreation.us/2006/07/ innovation-in-education.html Daniel

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squeakfest conclusions
by José L. Redrejo Rodríguez 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hi, all I've checked the Squeakfest'06 schedule page and donwloaded some of the materials that are available there. Unfortunately, the sound of the S. Papert speech recording is pretty bad, specially for those who don't have english as our native language, the noise make some parts really hard to be understood. Anyway, it's wonderful to be able to see it for all of us who haven't could attend this year. I would like to know more about how the event has gone, some of the topics of the schedule that look very promising, as SimBuilder, don't have any information at all, to know the state of the art for this project. But, what for me would be more useful is to know the general impression of the attendants to the current state of the Squeak use in particular, and of computers at schools in general. Squeak is more or less involved in a good bunch of projects as Tweak, Sophie, Croquet, Scratch, OLPC, etc, but the feeling I have from the distance is that all that cloud of projects don't seem to be followed by the educators, they just look like laboratory experiments, not being applied to the classroom except for some testing purposes. The main Squeak community seems to be quite stationary and almost no new projects (in terms of .pr files and also, in term of the application use) have arrived for the last year. Maybe it's just an impression as the squeakland site is not updated too often, maybe it's the real world. Some of you know that in Spain, in our Extremadura region, some crazy people are fighting trying to use the computers to build a new way of thinking and a new way of teaching, but the main stream in the educative community is really strong, and what I see here, and in the rest of the world is that most of the budget is going to pay applications or platforms that just translate the text books to the computers, as if that were enough to justify the use of computers in the classroom. When the teachers have their curricula contents in the computer as in the book, they feel safe. That's a stupid way of thinking for me as the text book is cheaper and easier to use, but people feel comfortable that way. So, ending with this too long mail, my main questions are: - what's the feeling people have brought after attending squeakfest? - Are there new development or projects being made in Squeak, or around its projects? - Any other related thing you would like to tell to all who felt sad not being in Chicago listening and learning.. Best Regards. José L.

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