The Weekly Squeak

  • Old Smalltalk Pics From PARC

    Special Thanks to Craig Latta who recently brought back these pictures of 1979 Smalltalk\Alto from PARC. What fun it is to see these pictures. The originals in terrific high resolution can be downloaded from here.

  • Here it is. OLPC!!

    Now I know this computer is supposed to be for children, and I’ve really enjoyed seeing all the wonderful pictures of the children receiving their computers, but as an adult I really did not expect it to be this much fun. I’m writing you from my olpc computer. I just received it from the Give…

  • The First Smalltalk Conference In Argentina

    From Hernan Wilkinson: Hi, I just wanted to let you know that the Smalltalks 2007 presentations are available at https://www.dc.uba.ar/events/smalltalks/2007/presentaciones Most of them are in English although not all. You can look some pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/smalltalks2007 and http://picasaweb.google.com/WeybridgeWay/1erCongresoArgentinoDeSmalltalk I wanted to give a public “Thanks” to ESUG for their support (DVD, book, ideas, etc), Viewpoints,…

  • Virtual Education a Reality for Aaron E. Walsh

    The Federation of American Scientists and the Kauffman Foundation are backing the Boston College’s own Aaron E. Walsh efforts to build virtual reality education content for virtual worlds like Croquet, Second Life and Project Wonderland. Walsh has been focusing on delivering content to children with disabilities through the Grid Institute an organization that promotes the…

  • Demand OLPC

    As they roll off the production line demand for the little education laptop is growing. The OLPC project, created by Nicholas Negroponte, to help teach the worlds children is starting to gain real traction. It sure didn’t take long to run through the first production run! The Give 1 Get 1 program appears to have…

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