Alan Kay wrote: > One whole route that was worked out almost 50 years ago was by > O.K. Moore at Yale in the late 50s and early 60s -- it was called > the "talking typewriter" (which was a hidden grad student) -- has > many of the initial seeds for thinking about how to do this, and has > quite a few studies giving quite a bit of date about how children > behave in the environment that Moore set up. "Writing to Read", > done by one of Moore's disciples and sponsored by IBM many years > ago, was more real, but also omitted some of the key principles that > Moore had discovered. This program, among other things, needed > a small personal machine like the XO to create the "autotelic > environment" which Moore felt was so important.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Edison_Talking_Typewriter has a link to an article about this project. "O. K. Moore" is, unfortunately, hard to search for. "Omar Moore" yields more interesting results. -- Jecel _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
