Hello John, you might be interested in the following transcript of the '97 oopsla speech: http://blog.moryton.net/2007/12/computer-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet.html
I also have some material in my disks. Doing a little scanning on jecel's list and my own, I think I've found 3 other speeches of Alan: The Ceremony of Awarding the Honorary Doctorate of Kyoto University to Dr. Alan Kay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yxXk9IUs6Q Program for the future (Andries Van Dam and Alan Kay on Engelbart's vision) https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p99875217/ How Simply and Understandably Could The "Personal Computing Experience" Be Programmed? http://irbseminars.intel-research.net/AlanKay.wmv -- Thiago Silva Computer Science M.Sc. Candidate at Federal University of Pernambuco jabber/gtalk: [email protected] http://blog.sourcecraft.info On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, John Zabroski <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > I am going to take a break from the previous thread of discussion. Instead, > it seems like most people need a tutorial in how to think BIG. > > One person in the last thread asked me how I would design a language in > light of what I know about programming language theory, with questions > ranging all over the subject of how to design languages and how to pick the > right language. I get e-mailed questions like this surprisingly often, such > that I want to eventually publish a FAQ on these things. > > However, I think before I do that, people should be much more intimately > familiar with Alan Kay, Ian Piumarta, and their ideas. > > What I am going to do is gather together a list of Alan's speeches and > interviews and any published media about him I can get my hands on and > assembly it into a wiki, the wik-kay. > > If you're interested in helping, let me know. I am going to start by fully > transcribing Alan Kay's 1997 OOPSLA speech The Computer Revolution Hasn't > Happened Yet, since I've watched it about 20 times so far and am surprised > I've not transfered it to text for faster consumption and easier quoting. > I'll probably hopefully set-up an Etherpad server so people can help > collaborative transcribe this with me (Google Wave is pure garbage at these > kinds of tasks, but Etherpad is the bomb-diggity). > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
