Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

2011-02-07 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Ron,

Well, the field itself really doesn't have a good overview of the strongest 
ideas it has had since 1950. So I certainly don't get upset when anyone 
randomly 
isn't aware of something that happened 40 years ago.

But researchers and engineers need to be a lot more careful about checking out 
prior art. The lack of this has led to the odd phenomena since the 1980s of 
reinventing the flat tire. Some of these that were really done badly (like 
the 
web browser, various bad scripting languages and UIs) have held things back for 
decades (and still are).

I predict that you will be amazed by Dave Reed's thesis. We implemented it a 
few 
years ago and it is now both an open source foundation (Croquet) and a startup 
(Teleplace).

Cheers,

Alan






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Subject: RE: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric


Thank you for humoring me.  I stand corrected.  I haven’t read David’s thesis.  
Just downloaded it.  Thanks for the suggestion.
 
Ron
 
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Subject: Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric
 
Hi Ron,

I've already played this game ad nauseum with many groups on the web. So I urge 
everyone to rise above the temptation to name your favorite idea that seems 
new.

But do you really think there were no peer to peer and cloud computing systems 
already deployed before 1980? (Hint: I used both quite a lot back then, and for 
a short time actually was in charge of an ARPA task group to define an AI 
cloud 
resource for the already running ARPAnet -- the one that got built was a 
multiple processor system (C.mmp) designed by Gordon Bell)

For much larger issues and inventions than DHT, let me refer you to the 1978 
PhD 
thesis of David Reed (popularly known as the '/' in TCP/IP) at MIT.1978. If 
you haven't heard of David or read this thesis, then this helps make my main 
point.

Since it would be really improbable for me to be aware of all developments 
after 
1980 (and even some before), I don't claim there have been none. 


I simply asked for 3 (or even one) since 1980 comparable to personal computing, 
GUIs, the Internet, Engelbart's notion of online system, etc. Previous essays 
into this yielded many suggestions, but I was able to identify prior art for 
all 
such.

For example, Tim Berners-Lee was suitably embarrassed when he found out about 
Engelbart - first for the web not doing as well in the design, goals and 
execution, and secondly, because as a physicist he would have been drummed out 
of Physics if he had not tried to stand on the shoulders of giants (as Newton 
said), and he had assumed falsely (and I think partly because our field is so 
careless about its historical great steps up) that computing had no Netwons, 
and 
the Internet had somehow just appeared without thought out purposes, and he 
failed to look for them.

Best wishes,

Alan
 



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Subject: RE: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric
Hi Alan,
 
One thing that comes to mind right away is DHT research.  I could be wrong but 
it seems to me that the 90’ saw the birth of DHT, P2P and Cloud Computing.
 
Ron Teitelbaum
 
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Subject: Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric
 
Hi Chunka,

I've been challenged on this point more than once, and have challenged back to 
come up

Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

2011-02-06 Thread Alan Kay
I don't think of teachers or teaching as dirty words. And I don't separate 
them by age group, profession, or whether parents or not. (Do I have to say 
that 
good teachers facilitate learning ?)

There are lots of poor teachers in the world (for many different reasons), but 
it's important to understand that no child ever invented Calculus, nor did any 
adult until very recently in our 200,000 years on the planet. Good teachers are 
vital, and most especially for the powerful invented ideas and knowledge that 
is 
less strongly built into our genetically and culturally fashioned brain/minds.

So we need good teachers from our peers, our parents, our schooling systems, 
our 
vocations, our delights, etc.

Best wishes,

Alan





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Subject: Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

A lot of thought provoking ideas listed in one mail. Wow!

On Sunday 06 Feb 2011 5:20:15 am Alan Kay wrote:
 For the US, it has been calculated that it is not possible to create enough
 knowledgeable K-8 teachers for math and science over the next 25 years,
 even for the 30:1 student teacher ratios we have today. It has been
 estimated that this problem is much worse in the developing world.
Student-Teacher ratio is about teaching not learning. I learnt the hard way 
that a different mind-set is needed to work with learning.

Parents and Family seems to have done a fairly good job in the 0-6 year range. 
When we get into the next stage (6-12), the learning environment breaks down. 
Mothers don't go around with a growth chart and taunt their babies with You 
should have been crawling by six months. You will get a C for your crawling. 
Sit facing the wall for the next five minutes! ;-). In India at least, 
families are held responsible for their children's development. In the next 
stage, why not hold teachers responsible for outcomes but facilitate them to 
achieve their goals using whatever they find appropriate?

In one exercise, we worked with teachers across 120 rural schools near 
Bangalore to attain one specific goal, 'get every student to read Kannada and 
Division by 7th grade' using whatever means at their disposal, even if they 
have to take assistance from locals who are not teachers but like being with 
children. Teachers took the help of external evaluators to detect non-learners 
in June to create a target set. When the eval was repeated six months later, 
the number dropped to near zero in 102 schools. Other schools are now catching 
up. The effect of empowerment spilled over into other topics and boosted the 
overall morale of students. The marginal funding required for this exercise 
was trivial.

 Computers can represent books and all other media, and they should be able
 to actively help us learn to read them (even if we start off not being
 able to read at all).
Children will learn to read only when they have to read to learn. The thirst 
for knowledge has to go beyond what they can get from their family or school. 
This is a challenge in countries like India with dense population and an oral 
tradition. The chasm between pre-literate to semi-literate is quite large.

A teacher in a rural public school narrated a case of a 6th grade student who 
wouldn't write or read and was at the bottom grade. When we introduced 
computers into the school, he was attracted to TeX morph in Etoys that typeset 
multilingual texts. He played with this morph sporadically over four months to 
generate various letter shapes and words (including misspellings) and then 
broke into fluent writing and reading. He had stumbled on a strong reason to 
read. Once he crossed the chasm, he stopped using the computer and switched 
over to books. Computer became a complex device. This incident had a big 
impact on the teacher who was, at that time, in her third trimester of her 
pregnancy.

 The great funding in the 60s was done mostly by the government, and for
 personal computing and pervasive networks was spread over more than 15
 universities and research companies who formed a cooperative research
 community. (The story of this is told in The Dream Machine by Mitchel
 Waldrop).
Given the scale and scope of education, public funding and social 
participation is the only solution. Private funding comes with too many 
strings attached :-(.

Subbu



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IAEP

Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

2011-02-06 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Ron,

I've already played this game ad nauseum with many groups on the web. So I urge 
everyone to rise above the temptation to name your favorite idea that seems 
new.

But do you really think there were no peer to peer and cloud computing systems 
already deployed before 1980? (Hint: I used both quite a lot back then, and for 
a short time actually was in charge of an ARPA task group to define an AI 
cloud 
resource for the already running ARPAnet -- the one that got built was a 
multiple processor system (C.mmp) designed by Gordon Bell)

For much larger issues and inventions than DHT, let me refer you to the 1978 
PhD 
thesis of David Reed (popularly known as the '/' in TCP/IP) at MIT.1978. If 
you haven't heard of David or read this thesis, then this helps make my main 
point.

Since it would be really improbable for me to be aware of all developments 
after 
1980 (and even some before), I don't claim there have been none. 


I simply asked for 3 (or even one) since 1980 comparable to personal computing, 
GUIs, the Internet, Engelbart's notion of online system, etc. Previous essays 
into this yielded many suggestions, but I was able to identify prior art for 
all 
such.

For example, Tim Berners-Lee was suitably embarrassed when he found out about 
Engelbart - first for the web not doing as well in the design, goals and 
execution, and secondly, because as a physicist he would have been drummed out 
of Physics if he had not tried to stand on the shoulders of giants (as Newton 
said), and he had assumed falsely (and I think partly because our field is so 
careless about its historical great steps up) that computing had no Netwons, 
and 
the Internet had somehow just appeared without thought out purposes, and he 
failed to look for them.

Best wishes,

Alan





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Hi Alan,
 
One thing that comes to mind right away is DHT research.  I could be wrong but 
it seems to me that the 90’ saw the birth of DHT, P2P and Cloud Computing.
 
Ron Teitelbaum
 
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Subject: Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric
 
Hi Chunka,

I've been challenged on this point more than once, and have challenged back to 
come up with one invention that was done after 1980 that matches up to the top 
10 done before 1980. 


This has not happened. I've been able to show the prior art for all suggestions.

Essentially everything in the last 30 years has been commercializations and 
other forms of innovation based on what was funded by ARPA, ONR, and by 
extension, Xerox in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

The important point here is that there are many new inventions needed, and they 
can be identified, but no one has been willing to fund them. It's not that the 
early birds got the worms, but that most of the needed worms out there are 
being 
missed.

Cheers,

Alan
 



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On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
GE is being congratulated for recognizing that the iPhone and iPad are pretty 
good ideas and technological realizations. But isn't this like the 
congratulations Bill Gates got for finally recognizing the Internet (about 25 
years after it had started working)?

Seems as though Apple had a lot more on the ball than Bill Gates or GE here 
(they used to do computing in the 60s, but couldn't see what it was).

And most of the ideas at Apple (and for personal computing and the Internet) 
came from research funding that no company or government has been willing to 
do 
since

Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

2011-02-05 Thread Alan Kay
, 
meaning 
that given the high risk and high payoff of the research, they only needed to 
bat .350 and the world will be changed). Today's funders want certainty, and 
this is engineering at best, and this does not change the world because the 
hard 
important problems never get worked on.

Best wishes

Alan









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Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric 
Alan  -- 

I’ve seen many organizations claim to be committed to “innovation,” while 
eschewing “invention.”  Everyone harvesting while refusing to sow makes for bad 
strategy, both societal and corporate.  I guess it’s “rational” in some 
short-term sense and another example of the free rider problem.  There’s an 
insidious side-effect as well.  By rejecting invention, those organizations 
implicitly or explicitly restrict the consideration set for even incremental 
innovation.  It’s hard to reach for even small aspirations if you’re always 
being told to not be “too far out.” So my experience matches your general 
point. 
 

I don’t make much experience, however, with the specific example that you were 
referring to.  I’d like to hear more about your perspective about the guiding 
principles pre and post ‘82, and how each set of leaders/funders rationalized 
their viewpoints.  I’d also be interested in your sense of the trend on this 
topic, since we have a new generation of high tech corporate leaders and 
funders 
and, clearly, another round of massive wealth being generated.

Regards,
Chunka



On 2/5/11 1:11 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:


Hi Chunka,

I've been challenged on this point more than once, and have challenged back to 
come up with one invention that was done after 1980 that matches up to the top 
10 done before 1980. 


This has not happened. I've been able to show the prior art for all 
suggestions.

Essentially everything in the last 30 years has been commercializations and 
other forms of innovation based on what was funded by ARPA, ONR, and by 
extension, Xerox in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

The important point here is that there are many new inventions needed, and 
they 
can be identified, but no one has been willing to fund them. It's not that the 
early birds got the worms, but that most of the needed worms out there are 
being 
missed.

Cheers,

Alan



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On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:


GE is being congratulated for recognizing that the iPhone and iPad are pretty 
good ideas and technological realizations. But isn't this like the 
congratulations Bill Gates got for finally recognizing the Internet (about 25 
years after it had started working)?

Seems as though Apple had a lot more on the ball than Bill Gates or GE here 
(they used to do computing in the 60s, but couldn't see what it was).

And most of the ideas at Apple (and for personal computing and the Internet) 
came from research funding that no company or government has been willing to 
do 
since 1982.


Alan -- Could you say more about this point?  Surely there's been tons of CS 
and 
IT funding since '82, both govt funding to universities and massive research 
budgets at msft, hp, 


Regards,
Chunka



Cheers,

Alan



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Subject: [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

We try to learn from those who have succeed for a long time:

 https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XWm2q8nQ

Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

2011-02-05 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 14:11, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi Chunka,

 I've been challenged on this point more than once, and have challenged back
 to come up with one invention that was done after 1980 that matches up to
 the top 10 done before 1980.

Second the motion. The Internet comes from DARPA. Interactive,
collaborative computing comes from Doug Engelbart's group at SRI, with
government funding. Alan's work on Smalltalk at Xerox was founded
directly on Doug's. The Apple Mac (and Lisa) GUI and Windows are just
high-budget, low-concept retoolings of parts of Smalltalk, without the
good stuff.

The innovations in education that I use come from Maria Montessori,
Jean Piaget, Georges Cuisenaire, Caleb Gattigno, and others in the
early to mid 20th century. The pioneers of computers in education
include Omar Khayyam Moore (who supplemented the computer with a
graduate student), Ken Iverson, and Seymour Papert in the 1960s.
Almost all of the rest of us are working out details from their great
insights, or more often ignoring most of their work to concentrate on
some tiny part of it.

Men of one idea, like a hen with one chick, and that a
duckling.--Henry David Thoreau

Alan has asked what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of Doug
Engelbart's ideas. I don't think the situation is globally that dire,
but I do think that the next wave will not come from Silicon Valley,
but from somewhere unexpected, quite likely some place where our XO
children are allowed sufficient freedom to innovate, or find ways to
do it regardless.

However, there is a substantial movement now to replace printed
textbooks with less expensive computers with Free Software and
Creative Commons content. There is a substantial movement to create
unencumbered content, particularly in academic publishing. There is
not a very rapid uptake of these tools in school systems, but it is
early days yet.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win.--Mahatma Gandhi

Then they claim that it was their idea all along.--Edward Mokurai Cherlin

I am in discussions with Dan Cohen the Mathman, mathman.biz, over his
Calculus By and For Young People, and with the company that Caleb
Gattegno founded to commercialize his Silent Way of teaching
languages, for donations of content to Sugar. I will be talking with
the Squeakland list about putting their approaches into Etoys
software.

 This has not happened. I've been able to show the prior art for all
 suggestions.

 Essentially everything in the last 30 years has been commercializations and
 other forms of innovation based on what was funded by ARPA, ONR, and by
 extension, Xerox in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

 The important point here is that there are many new inventions needed, and
 they can be identified, but no one has been willing to fund them. It's not
 that the early birds got the worms, but that most of the needed worms out
 there are being missed.

The problem in education research goes much deeper than lack of
funding. It is deeply political, and touches many people's sense of
who and what they are, including parents, teachers, school
administrations, and politicians.

There are worms that got initial research funding, but the political
environment is so toxic that we cannot use the results.

An example of a toxic dispute that is not overtly political is whole
word vs. phonics in teaching reading. Both are required in English,
which has many variant spellings for its phonemes, and words such as
'once' that conform to no rule at all. One of the political dimensions
of this and related disputes is that teachers refuse to discuss
linguistics research. In part it is a status thing, a Thorstein
Veblen/Theory of the Leisure Class phenomenon, because teachers want
to teach the high-status version of any language, not the vernacular,
and because teachers have been losing status in the US for decades,
with shrinking pay, benefits, and rights, and constant attacks from
political grandstanders.

An example of a purely political dispute is evolutionary biology vs.
Creationism, where some Creationists have convinced themselves that
Darwin is the Apostle of the Antichrist, and most agree that science
is part of a plot to destroy all that is good and true in human
society. Sex education is to them the clearest symptom that this moral
decay is deliberate.

 Cheers,

 Alan
 
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Re: [IAEP] [squeakland] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

2011-02-05 Thread msev...@gmail.com
What about the world wide web?
That is usually credited to have been invented in 1990 at CERN.

Of course we all stand on the shoulders who have gone before us.

Martin sevior

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Hi Chunka,

I've been challenged on this point more than once, and have challenged back to 
come up  with one invention that was done after 1980 that matches up to the top 
 
10 done before 1980. 


This has not happened. I've been able to show the prior art for all suggestions.

Essentially everything in the last 30 years has been commercializations  and 
other forms of innovation based on what was funded by ARPA, ONR,  and by 
extension, Xerox in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

The important point here is that there are many new inventions needed,  and 
they 
can be identified, but no one has been willing to fund them.  It's not that the 
early birds got the worms, but that most of the needed worms  out there are 
being missed.

Cheers,

Alan




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Subject: Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric




On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:


GE is being congratulated for recognizing that the iPhone and iPad are pretty 
good ideas and technological realizations. But isn't this like the 
congratulations Bill Gates got for finally recognizing the Internet (about 25 
years after it had started working)?

Seems as though Apple had a lot more on the ball than Bill Gates or GE here 
(they used to do computing in the 60s, but couldn't see what it was).

And most of the ideas at Apple (and for personal computing and the Internet) 
came from research funding that no company or government has been willing to 
do 
since 1982.



Alan -- Could you say more about this point?  Surely there's been tons of CS 
and 
IT funding since '82, both govt funding to universities and massive research 
budgets at msft, hp, 

Regards,
Chunka


Cheers,

Alan




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Subject: [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

We try to learn from those who have succeed for a long time:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XWm2q8nQ-l5KUJ_PWkQruLDx-nZ7nsKDfg4idDlsU50


Carlos Rabassa
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