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Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?

Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?Dynabook for $100?"I have a dream" Unfortunately like Martin Luther King, Alan Kay's Dynabook is nothing more at this time.I wish it wasn't so but like socialism it requires a level of cooperation at so many levels that in a capitalist society...

Tags: E-books, Engineering, Dynabook, Alan Kay

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?

The Dynabook. Source: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages, Alan Kay, XEROX PARC 1968. November 5th, 2008 was the 40th anniversary since computer scientist Alan Kay devised the "Dynabook", a theoretical computing device which was aimed toward higher education and...

Tags: Device, Student, Alan Kay, Dynabook, E-books, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-09

The tattered history of OOP

This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...

Tags: Message, Software, Object-oriented Programming, Smalltalk, Idea, Data, Object-oriented, Unix, Object, Alan Kay, Way Object-orientation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Preventing the Future, $100 Laptops, and Powerful Ideas

Last week I attended a couple of lectures that Alan Kay gave at the University of Utah. Kay's first talk was on some of the ways we're "inventing and preventing the future." Kay, who received the ACM's Turing Award in 2003, invented, or participated in the invention, of...

Tags: $100-laptop, Alan Kay

Blog posts 2006-02-27

HP cuts research projects, loses tech visionary

HP cuts research projects, loses tech visionarywow, how can you cut innovation?Alan Kay is one of those people allot of companies are begging for on their R & D teams and for any arrogant business manager CEO to come in and effect such a loss is pure stupidity in my...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co., job, Alan Kay, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-22

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A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives

Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...

Tags: Mr., Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Secure your computer after a Windows install or reinstall

Microsoft recommends that you connect to the Internet to get the important security updates and service packs after a fresh install. But the catch-22 is that your computer is more vulnerable until the security updates are installed. Alan Norton details five ways to better secure your computer immediately following a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Security Update, Computer, Alan Norton, Security Administration, Patches, Productivity, Security

Download resources 2008-11-24

OS earns highest-ever gov't security rating. Does that make it "most secure?"

I have to admit that I had never before heard of a certification called EAL6+ High Robustness until the folks at Green Hills Software reached out to tell me that they were about to get it for their operating system, formally called INTEGRITY 178B. EAL6+ High...

Tags: Security, Certification, Operating System, EAL, Quality, Operating Systems, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Kindle Economics

A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...

Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Microsoft, Creative Financing, and the Bank of EAC

Microsoft's announcement that it would offer 0% financing to new customers of its Dynamics product line is a welcome offering at a time when the credit crisis requires out-of-the-box solutions to the fact that a bunch of ungrateful banks are unwilling to loan the taxpayer those megabucks we lent them...

Tags: Bank, Financing, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-11-13

SAP's UK users don't get it - yet

The above video shows two interviews I made earlier today. One is with Alan Bowling, chairman SAP user group UK and Ireland. The second is with Ray Wang, VP at Forrester research. SAP's UK users are struggling to understand the price hike in maintenance costs. Users I...

Tags: SAP AG, KPI, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-10

10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO

10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOHow about John McCain?:-)RE: 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOPersonally, I think Gates would be the best choice. He is a visionary. Had his vision years ago, managed to podge together ideas and technology from other sources, and create the Windows empire.The only...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

A Kindroid in every pot?

Fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has written a couple of interesting pieces lately on ways to get cheap ebook readers/tablets into both students' and consumers' hands. In, "Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together" he described how an Android-based Kindle ebook reader could allow this platform to really...

Tags: Kindroid, E-books, Tablets, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-10

News to know: Rigged PDFs; Obama's CTO; Android bug; Windows 7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100? CNET News: Memo to Intel: Netbooks morphing into notebooks Ryan Naraine: Rigged PDFs...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, CTO, Adobe PDF, E-waste, Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Solera Networks - a different take on management and security

I was contacted recently by an old acquaintence, Alan Hall, formally from Novell and now with Solera Networks. Hmm. That didn't come out right. Alan is someone I've known for a while. I'm not saying he's old. Alan wanted me to hear about a different way to...

Tags: Security, Network, Network Traffic, Analysis, Alan, Solera Networks Technology, Packet Capture, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Election Day '08: Where to get live results

Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsthose are all biased toward obamawatch the real news atwww.johnmccain.comor www.foxnews.comThe rest are unreliable or in bed with the liberals.RE: Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsKudos to the first person who responded, obviously an intelligent and well informed voter. To the...

Tags: Well Let, Election Day, John McCain

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Women and leadership

Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Leadership, Men, Women, Leader, Personal Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Take Stock. Turn Off The Tech. Turn Off The Echo Chamber. Think.

I had just plunked down $1.50 for the morning New York Times in the Atlanta airport. By the time I think plunked down $1.19 for a breakfast hot dog (don't ask), I wanted to toss out the newspaper. The New York Stock Exchange...

Tags: Algorithm, Stock, Chairman, New York Stock Exchange, Way Thing, Engineering, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-24

The future of copyright: an 'undiscovered country'

In a speech at Sandra Day O'Connor's Conference on the State of the Judiciary, Alan Greenspan held forth on the importance of capitalism and property rights in the context of the financial meltdown. While many have argued that Greenspan himself bears substantial blame for the meltdown because of his support...

Tags: Property, Alan Greenspan, Marxism, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-18

10 things you should do before, during, and after reinstalling Windows

There are some very good reasons why you might want to reinstall Microsoft Windows. Whether it is 2000, XP or Vista, the registry can become corrupted or it can accumulate settings for programs long since forgotten, leading to sluggish performance. Alan Norton documents the steps needed to properly reinstall Windows....

Tags: Alan Norton, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Download resources 2008-10-15