Re: [fonc] Natural Language Wins

2013-04-06 Thread Kim Rose
Excuse me, but when did this list turn into a forum for religious /bible discussion? Can we get back to issues in computing, please? Thank you, Kim Rose Viewpoints Research Viewpoints Research is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving powerful ideas education

Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report?

2012-11-08 Thread Kim Rose
you say support? Is there a way that a lay-person such as myself can support VPRI, or are monetary donations the most straight-forward way? Thanks, Jeff On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Kim Rose kim.r...@vpri.org wrote: Hi, Carl - I am sure there will be some documentation

Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report?

2012-11-08 Thread Kim Rose
of systems research and personal computing. Please visit us online at www.vpri.org On Nov 9, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Julian Leviston wrote: How does one donate? Julian On 09/11/2012, at 12:10 PM, Kim Rose kim.r...@vpri.org wrote: Dear Jeff, Good question; honestly support = donations

Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report?

2012-11-07 Thread Kim Rose
of this calendar year. We have received some more funding (although not to the extent of this original 5-year grant) and our work will carry on. That said, we're always looking for more funding to maintain day to day operations so we welcome any support and donations at any time. :-) Regards, Kim Rose

Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report?

2012-11-07 Thread Kim Rose
something like the blue book with a CDROM. :-) -Carl -Original Message- From: fonc-boun...@vpri.org [mailto:fonc-boun...@vpri.org] On Behalf Of Kim Rose Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 5:37 PM To: Fundamentals of New Computing Subject: Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report

[fonc] Fwd: [CIBSE 2012] Call for Submissions - Doctoral Symposium

2011-12-01 Thread Kim Rose
DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CIBSE 2012 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) http://cibse2012.unlam.edu.ar/program/d_symp.php CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Organizing Committee of the XIVIbero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2012) are pleased to invite PhD students in the Software Engineering and

Re: [fonc] VPRI Presentations (e.g. C5 2012)

2011-11-30 Thread Kim Rose
Hi, Sean, No one from VPRI submitted a paper to C5 this year as the work done to date on STEPS is (still very low-level/high technical) and therefore not yet relevant to the C5 conference topics or general C5 audience. I can tell you that Alan Kay has accepted an invitation to give the

Re: [fonc] back to the future - Ian's 2007 talk at stanford

2011-11-14 Thread Kim Rose
Recent talks given at Smalltalks 2011 in Argentina will be posted in a few weeks here: http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2011 -- Kim Viewpoints Research is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving powerful ideas education for the world's children and advancing the state

[fonc] C5 2012 - Registration now online!

2011-11-12 Thread Kim Rose
. We have 2 great keynote speakers, an excellent program and fabulous venue for the 10th C5 Conference. Hope to see you at ICT in lovely Playa del Rey in January! Kim Rose ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

Re: [fonc] Alan Kay talk at HPI in Potsdam

2011-07-22 Thread Kim Rose
thanks, Bert! Hope all is going well and you're having fun. See you soon in Lancaster cheers, Kim On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Recording: http://tele-task.de/archive/lecture/overview/5820/ - Bert - On 22.07.2011, at 06:29, Alan Kay wrote: To All, This

Re: [fonc] visual environments created by present/former VPRI staff

2011-03-30 Thread Kim Rose
Hi, John - CIA Agent does not sound familiar --you may have incorrect attribution of this system. Also, Squeak Etoys is the correct name. - Kim Viewpoints Research is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving powerful ideas education for the world's children and

Re: [fonc] Outreach activities: videos?

2011-01-11 Thread Kim Rose
in Tokyo: Papers for the S3 talks in Tokyo are cited as number [9] and [10] in references; and can both be found in the writings section of the vpri website. The talks were not recorded as far as I am aware. Regards, Kim Rose On Jan 11, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Ryan Mitchley wrote: Are there any

[fonc] Join Us at C5-2011 in Kyoto, Japan

2010-12-12 Thread Kim Rose
/ for program details and registration info. Please share this announcement with colleagues and friends. We hope to see you in Kyoto in January! Kim Rose Viewpoints Research Institute ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman

[fonc] S3 - Registration is now open!

2010-08-31 Thread Kim Rose
) • Yukihiro Matsumoto: From Lisp to Ruby to Rubinius (Rakuten Institute of Technology) • Vishal Sikka: On Sustainable Business Solutions (SAP) Please forward this to anyone you think would be interested in this gathering. Kim Rose ___ fonc

[fonc] REMINDER - CfP S3 2010 Tokyo Deadline July 30th

2010-07-16 Thread Kim Rose
*** Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2010 *** September 27-28, 2010 The University of Tokyo, Japan http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/s3/s3-10/ In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN === Call for papers === The Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) is a forum for discussion of topics

Re: [fonc] goals

2010-07-08 Thread Kim Rose
Not to put down Anais Nin, but this saying is written in the Talmud and attributed to Buddha (great minds) Kim On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Ryan Mitchley wrote: Alan Kay wrote: McLuhan: We become what we behold. We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -

Re: [fonc] Points of View - a tribute to Alan Kay

2010-05-21 Thread Kim Rose
Thanks for letting us know, John! We are planning a 2nd printing of the traditional version. Will announce as we know more. We're big fans of Cory Doctorow and always intended to give away the PDF next to the printed copy. Glad you appreciate! cheers, Kim On May 21, 2010, at 7:04

[fonc] CFP - S3 2010 Tokyo

2010-05-11 Thread Kim Rose
, 2010 S3 workshop: September 27-28, 2010 Final papers for ACM-DL post-proceedings: October 15, 2010 --- Chairs --- Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany) hirschf...@hpi.uni-potsdam.de Hidehiko Masuhara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) masuh...@graco.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp Kim Rose

[fonc] 2009 NSF report

2010-05-07 Thread Kim Rose
The 2009 progress report is now online - http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php -- Kim ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

Re: [fonc] Any newer FoNC distribution ?

2010-05-06 Thread Kim Rose
Driedger wrote: Kim, can you tell us when it's up? I've been looking forward to reading this for months. ]{evin On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Kim Rose kim.r...@vpri.org wrote: Actually, I don't think we posted the 2009 report...but will now. Kim Viewpoints Research is a 501(c)(3

Re: [fonc] fonc status and direction

2010-01-20 Thread Kim Rose
Thanks for alerting us to this hack. We are in process of restoring wiki asap. Kim On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:45 PM, s...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On Thu Jan 21 9:46 , Gerry J sent: If there has been an update, where may i find it? Well the second most recent update to the wiki is the following:

Re: [fonc] wiki and communication

2008-06-05 Thread Kim Rose
We will do so! Should be up and active in a few days. You'll see an added button on the fonc home page as you suggest. thanks, Kim On Jun 5, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Craig Overend wrote: Can I suggest a link to the wiki be added to the fonc home page here: http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm

[fonc] S3 Registration - Now Open!

2008-03-19 Thread Kim Rose
Hello, FYI: Registration for S3 ( http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/ ) is now open. Please consider joining us! Cheers, Kim ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc

Re: [fonc] New Tech Report from VPRI

2008-03-02 Thread Kim Rose
Thanks for sharing, Josh! I didn't even think to announce that. cheers, Kim On Mar 2, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Joshua Gargus wrote: Hi all, I feel a bit awkward announcing this (since there are VPRI members who frequent the list), but I think it's of general interest, and also provides a

Re: [fonc] Avoiding math precedence ambiguities

2007-12-14 Thread Kim Rose
Hi, Waldemar -- There's not really an official voice here -- we are very much a collaborative team of colleagues, building the Steps together. That said, however, at this point in time, Ian is really the chief architect of the underlying structure of the system, constantly receiving

Re: [fonc] patterns/research for newbie PLs

2007-12-11 Thread Kim Rose
fyi... Our team worked closely with Jim Spohrer while at Apple Computer. He remains a good friend and colleague. -- Kim On Dec 11, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Jason Johnson wrote: This is a good article. Thanks for that. Did you notice this part? [Spohrer 1986b] found that many novice bugs

Re: [fonc] tutorial

2007-11-28 Thread Kim Rose
That's got my vote for the time being... -- Kim On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Joshua Gargus wrote: That's not bad. How about simply OLA, since minimalism is such a big part of the whole adventure? Josh On Nov 28, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Steven H. Rogers wrote: Stéphane Conversy wrote: btw,

Re: [fonc] tutorial

2007-11-28 Thread Kim Rose
The community may find it of interest to know we toyed with this word/ idea some time ago Kim On Nov 28, 2007, at 7:12 AM, Steven H. Rogers wrote: On Wed, November 28, 2007 06:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ZEN meaning Zero Engine Noise? That might work ;), but this definition from the