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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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- Inching closer to the perfect e-reader for students
- Give it away, just like Cell PhonesIf Sony,Amazon,Plastic Logic, IREX, etc... want people to start reading content on eReader devices, they need to start giving them away for free... with a service contract, much like the cellphone industry.Most people already understand these types of contracts and will feel like they...
- Tags: E-books, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Note-taking, e-reader, perfect e-reader, eReader
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Lessons from the Death Map
- Lessons from the Death MapStay away from Other networks.....Its' Already Known, yet Other Networks Post Hazards Beyond Mortal Persons ability to Party Them ALL. BeWarned & PrePared, CES IS NOT Just Party, Its NETWORK Idenity. Sure NOW ZEDENKA' Gone, ZD Comes Back, With NO PC Magazine, I Note. Tell that...
- Tags: Sort-of, heatwave
- Discussion threads 2009-01-03
- Google's future: Predictions for 2009
- Google's future: Predictions for 2009so basically..so basically all good and gets better.. I guess that was easy..Google 2009!Alan Kay once said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Indeed this is what Google is doing. Here's to a googlicious Google 2009! Cheers!or Google...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-25
- 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: Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- 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
- 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
- Guest post: An ode to the humble spreadsheet
- Guest blog: Bob Warfield has founded three startups, run R&D at Borland, developed software for Callidus and Oracle and created tools for Rational/Pure Atria. He currently works for SaaS customer service company Helpstream. He is responsible for Quattro Pro, the Borland spreadsheet, and is the inventor of the notebook tabs...
- Tags: Spreadsheet, Productivity, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Oddball thinking about OOP
- Oddball thinking about OOPVery interesting Murph ...... but a tad tricky to know if I followed your drift or not.OOP in my mind is a programmers management tool/way/approach/methodology. I'd find it hard not to write OO now. In the background Erlang is proving an interesting curve, but it's a hobby...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OOP principle, object-oriented programming
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- The PC vision was lost from the get-go
- The PC vision was lost from the get-goYes - I mean no - wait, I mean yes - no umm, maybe?What Mark writes as "People haven't liked the notion of "distribute by copy" of GUI apps. They prefer "distribute by access" of the web." I read as "people don't like...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, software, PC vision, get-go, PC, vision
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- About the Windows Server 2008 stack
- About the Windows Server 2008 stackNeed to corre t your article linkthe link is half the articlebut good points about MS centric users who haven't looked outside their little worldRE: About the Windows Server 2008 stackI believe the Windows registry predates MS getting any influence from the VMS world. (In...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., IPv6, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, VMS, Windows Server 2008 stack, Microsoft Windows Server, registry, Unix, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- Windows, Linux, and the Kyoto Climate Protocols
- Windows, Linux, and the Kyoto Climate ProtocolsAh the zombiesNice report from Bali:http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=178&Itemid=1]Fortnight%20of%20the%20undeadHmm, Windows v. Linux AND Global Warming?All in one post? You must really need hits :)Parallel world?Obviously a dimensional rift has opened up and swallowed you Rudy. A world where MS client server doesn't work and Unix...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, God, Kyoto Climate, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Could Apple allow Windows apps to run natively?
- Could Apple allow Windows apps to run natively?would never work 100%They might be much better off buying codeweavers and supporting a few common applications. But claiming a compatibility layer is in my opinion suicide. Microsoft could very easily break that and make Apple look unreliable.Car colors, etc.When Ford Motor Company...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Adrian, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Windows App
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Klausner Technologies: The new NTP?
- Klausner Technologies: The new NTP?20 years?Doesn't that mean it's expired?Sue Apple for all it is worth!!Apple deserves to get back what it has inflicted on so many others. Sue 'em into bankruptcy![i]Apple has called iPhone’s Visual Voicemail "one of the greatest advances in the history of mankind … without question."[/i]Yeah,...
- Tags: iphone, Klausner Technologies, patent, new NTP, Apple Inc., NTP, phone, voicemail
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
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