It's on the reading list now. Thank you! On Apr 19, 2013, at 5:56 AM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wow, automatic spelling correctors suck, especially early in the morning .... > > The only really good -- and reasonably accurate -- book about the history of > Lick, ARPA-IPTO (no "D", that is when things went bad), and Xerox PARC is > "Dream Machines" by Mitchell Waldrop. > > Cheers, > > Alan > > From: Alan Kay <[email protected]> > To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 5:53 AM > Subject: Re: [fonc] 90% glue code > > The only really good -- and reasonable accurate -- book about the history of > Lick, ARPA-IPTO (no "D", that is went things went bad), and Xerox PARC is > "Dream Machines" by Mitchel Waldrop. > > Cheers, > > Alan > > From: Miles Fidelman <[email protected]> > To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 5:45 AM > Subject: Re: [fonc] 90% glue code > > Casey Ransberger wrote: > > This Licklider guy is interesting. CS + psych = cool. > > A lot more than cool. Lick was the guy who: > - MIT Professor > - pioneered timesharing (bought the first production PDP-1 for BBN) and AI > work at BBN > - served as the initial Program Manager at DARPA/IPTO (the folks who funded > the ARPANET) > - Director of Project MAC at MIT for a while > - wrote some really seminal papers - "Man-Computer Symbiosis"is write up > there with Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" > > /It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a > 'thinking center' that will incorporate the functions of present-day > libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and > retrieval./ > > /The picture readily enlarges itself into a network of such centers, > connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual > users by leased-wire services. In such a system, the speed of the computers > would be balanced, and the cost of the gigantic memories and the > sophisticated programs would be divided by the number of users./ > > - J.C.R. Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis > <http://memex.org/licklider.html>, 1960. > > - perhaps the earliest conception of the Internet: > In a 1963 memo to "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer > Network," Licklider theorized that a computer network could help researchers > share information and even enable people with common interests to interact > online. > (http://web.archive.org/web/20071224090235/http://www.today.ucla.edu/1999/990928looking.html) > > Outside the community he kept a very low profile. One of the greats. > > Miles Fidelman > > -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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