CIO Insight magazine has published an interview with Smalltalk’s and Squeak’s father, Alan Kay. The interview, titled “Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped—Now”, covers many topics such as the past, present and future of computing, Squeak and Croquet, the OLPC project and the other initiatives of ViewPoints Research Institute, and the need to reinvent the PC in order for computing to leap forward.
Category: OLPC
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Taking the Beat of Cadence
Gilad Bracha is a legend in Object Oriented Programming. He is the Co-Author of the Java Language Specification and one of the major contributors to Strongtalk which has just been released by Sun under an Open Source License.
Gilad is forming a team at Cadence and is raising eye brows with his latest hires. Eliot Miranda and Vassili Bykov recently left Cincom to join Gilad at Cadence . Eliot is well-known known as a Master of Smalltalk Development. Vassili Bykov was the lead tool builder of VisualWorks. We can’t help wondering about the team of Gilad, Eliot, and Vassili. I spoke with Gilad about Cadence, Smalltalk, and Open Source. (more…)
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Nicholas Negroponte discusses OLPC
In a keynote speech at NECC, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, explains what he hopes to achieve through the project–and educators offer their reactions.
Source: Bert’s blog
OLPC video from NECC
Just found a nice video on youtube about the $100 laptop at NECC 06, including a cameo of our very own Kim Rose (at 3:21) while the speaker is mentioning “creativity” – very apt, I’d say.
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Breaking Barriers
Video: Codebreakers – BBC
Continuing the discussion of Open Source and the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC), here is a terrific article: Breaking Barriers. Thank you Diego Gomez Deck for pointing it out. Squeak even has a mention in conjunction with the Extramadura Project on page 77 (adobe doc page 88). (more…)
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Etoys in OLPC mailing list
Bert Freudemberg announced the creation of a new mailing list specifically for discussing Etoys in the one-laptop-per-child (OLPC) software distribution (a.k.a. “$100-laptop”).
The Weekly Squeak 