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Lunch with Alan Kay: how to become educated enough to invent the future
▻http://onpk.net/index.php/2019/04/29/724-lunch-with-alan-kay-how-to-become-educated-enough-to-invent-the-future

Steve Krouse évoque une longue discussion avec Alan Kay sur son blog : Also like Bob Barton, Alan spent most of the lunch very kindly intellectually destroying me, smacking me around, and pointing out how much more I have to learn in order to do good work. I have met only a handful of people...

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Lev Manovich, gourou logiciel - Strabic.fr
▻http://alireailleurs.tumblr.com/post/99390342871

Anthony Masure et Robin de Mourat livrent pour Strabic une synthèse très complète sur le théoricien des médias Lev Manovich. 

"Le software se présente selon Manovich comme un « métamédium » (terme initialement proposé par Alan Kay), qui peut simuler tous les anciens médias, mais qui surtout les enrichit de nouvelles propriétés propres au numérique, telles que la recherche, l’échantillonnage, le redimensionnement, etc. Ces propriétés génériques permettent l’avènement de nouveaux médias hybrides (Photoshop, Acrobat Reader), ou entièrement nouveaux (la navigation 3D). La propriété intrinsèque au numérique serait donc son « extensibilité permanente (...)

▻http://www.isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/paper/metamedium-expanded-alan-kay

▻http://worrydream.com/refs/Vannevar%20Bush%20Symposium%20-%20Closing%20Panel.html

From the closing panel at the 1995 Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium, featuring Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Ted Nelson, and Tim Berners-Lee.

Now, the abortion that happened after PARC was the misunderstanding of the user interface that we did for children, which was the overlapping window interface which we made as naive as absolutely we possibly could to the point of not having any workflow ideas in it, and that was taken over uncritically out into the outside world.

So you are basically proposing some kind of information SWAT team that can move swiftly through an organization, or is going to be some sort of elite ’eizatsgroupe’ in the files. This is a very exciting and interesting concept, but how would that function organizationally?

Alan Kay: Looking back, I think that one of the paradoxes is that we made a complete mistake when we were doing the interface at PARC because we assumed that the kids would need an easy interface because we were going to try and teach them to program and stuff like that, but in fact they are the ones who are willing to put hours into getting really expert at things - shooting baskets, learning to hit baseballs, learning to ride bikes, and now on video games. I have a four-year old nephew who is really incredible and he could use NLS fantastically if it were available. He would be flying through that stuff, because his whole thing is to become part of the system he’s interacting with. So if I had had that perspective I would have designed a completely different interface for the kids, one in which how you became expert was much more apparent than what I did. So I’m sorry for what I did.

Doug Engelbart : ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
Vannevar Bush : ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush
Ted Nelson : ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson
Alan Kay : ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
Tim Berners-Lee : ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

#gui #interaction #IHM #ergonomie #programmation #apprentissage #web #xerox_parc

Douglas Engelbart, l’inventeur de la souris, est mort
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2013/07/03/douglas-engelbart-l-inventeur-de-la-souris-est-mort_3441495_3382.html

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L’ingénieur et pionnier de l’informatique Douglas Engelbart, inventeur de la souris d’ordinateur, est mort mardi 2 juillet au soir à l’âge de 88 ans à son domicile californien d’Atherton, au cœur de la Silicon Valley, a-t-on appris mercredi auprès de l’Institut portant son nom.
Né dans l’Oregon, il s’était installé au Sud pour devenir chercheur au Stanford Research Institute, après des études d’ingénierie électrique et informatique dans les années 1950, une époque où les ordinateurs occupaient encore des pièces entières. Ses recherches ont ainsi porté sur la visioconférence, la téléconférence, le courrier électronique, les « fenêtres » et le lien hypertexte mais il est surtout connu pour avoir inventé la souris d’ordinateur.

Dans le NYT ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/technology/douglas-c-engelbart-inventor-of-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-88.html

In December 1968, however, he set the computing world on fire with a remarkable demonstration before more than a thousand of the world’s leading computer scientists at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, one of a series of national conferences in the computer field that had been held since the early 1950s. Dr. Engelbart was developing a raft of revolutionary interactive computer technologies and chose the conference as the proper moment to unveil them.

For the event, he sat on stage in front of a mouse, a keyboard and other controls and projected the computer display onto a 22-foot-high video screen behind him. In little more than an hour, he showed how a networked, interactive computing system would allow information to be shared rapidly among collaborating scientists. He demonstrated how a mouse, which he invented just four years earlier, could be used to control a computer. He demonstrated text editing, video conferencing, hypertext and windowing.

Wired
Doug Engelbart, who foresaw the modern computer, dies at 88 (Wired UK)
▻http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/04/douglas-engelbard

Engelbart first revealed his creation to the rest of the world in 1968, at an event in San Francisco, about an hour’s drive north from SRI, and the unveiling, before many of the world’s leading computer scientists, has since become known as “The Mother Of All Demos” (see video below).
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In the audience that day in 1969, “shivering like mad, with a [40] degree temperature,” was a young man named Alan Kay. Kay would go on to join Xerox PARC, where he worked on the research lab’s seminal Alto computer and the groundbreaking object-oriented programming environment known as SmallTalk. He was among the few who saw the demo — and Engelbart — for what they were.

“He was one of the very few people very early on who were able to understand not only that computers could do a lot of things that were very familiar, but that there was something new about computers that allow us to think in a very different way — in a stronger way,” Kay said during the 40th anniversary celebration.

Ah ! SmallTalk…

Et la vidéo (extraits) qui va bien, 9/12/1968…
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvx4ObDBGZs

Interview with Alan Kay | Dr Dobb’s
►http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442

Binstock: One thing about jazz aficionados is that they take deep pleasure in knowing the history of jazz.

Kay: Yes! Classical music is like that, too. But pop culture holds a disdain for history. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you’re participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it’s living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from] — and the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.