From Alan Kay's talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, the gist of which seems to be that the last twenty years of computing have been boring, and there's a lot of stuff from the 60s that's still beyond what we have today:
Posted by jjwiseman at April 25, 2003 10:32 AMJohn McCarthy invented PDP1 interactive LISP -- a metainvention, the Maxwell's Equations of programming. Today is the 40th aniversary of the first interactive implementation by a 16-year-old Peter Deutsch. It was the first time a programming language became an operating system.
Will recordings be released, or is that an incentive to cough up hundreds of bucks?
Posted by: anon on April 25, 2003 09:32 PMAlan Kay also talked at Terry Winograd's HCI class yesterday. A video of HCI talk is available at this link: http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/DAM_UI/pages/VideoList.asp?CourseInfo=CS547&URL=http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/xml/spring2003/cs547video.xml
It's about 1 1/2 hours long. He gives a similar "Daddy, are we there yet" rant begins during the Q&A period--about an hour in, I think.
Posted by: Will Fitzgerald on April 26, 2003 08:32 AMLisa Rein will be posting the video soon.
Posted by: Wes Felter on April 26, 2003 05:25 PM