Hi Kevin
At some point I'll gather enough brain cells to do the needed edits and get the
report on the Viewpoints server.
Dan Amelang is in the process of writing his thesis on Nile, and we will
probably put Nile out in a more general form after that. (A nice project would
be to do Nile in the Chrome "Native Client" to get a usable speedy and very
compact graphics system for web based systems.)
Yoshiki's K-Script has been experimentally implemented on top of Javascript,
and we've been learning a lot about this variant of stream-based FRP as it is
able to work within "someone else's implementation of a language".
A lot of work on the "cooperating solvers" part of STEPS is going on (this was
an add-on that wasn't really in the scope of the original proposal).
We are taking another pass at the "interoperating alien modules" problem that
was part of the original proposal, but that we never really got around to
trying to make progress on it.
And, as has been our pattern in the past, we have often alternated end-user
systems (especially including children) with the "deep systems" projects, and
we are currently pondering this 50+ year old problem again.
A fair amount of time is being put into "problem finding" (the basic idea is
that initially trying to manifest "visions" of desirable future states is
better than going directly into trying to state new goals -- good visions will
often help "problem finding" which can then be the context for picking actual
goals).
And most of my time right now is being spent in extending environments for
research.
Cheers
Alan
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From: Kevin Driedger <linuxbox+f...@gmail.com>
To: Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com>; Fundamentals of New Computing
<fonc@vpri.org>
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned?
Alan,
Can you give us any more details or direction on these research projects?
]{evin ])riedger
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Dan
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>It actually got written and given to NSF and approved, etc., a while ago, but
>needs a little more work before posting on the VPRI site.
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>Meanwhile we've been consumed by setting up a number of additional, and wider
>scale, research projects, and this has occupied pretty much all of my time for
>the last 5-6 months.
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>Cheers,
>
>
>Alan
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>________________________________
> From: Dan Melchione <dm.f...@melchione.com>
>To: fonc@vpri.org
>Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 10:40 AM
>Subject: [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned?
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>Haven't seen much regarding this for a while. Has it been been abandoned or
>put at such low priority that it is effectively abandoned?
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