Hello, i just started working for a startup with not alot of start up money. Turing award, the highest honour in computer science, for his contributions to objectoriented programming languages, including smalltalk. Stack overflow for teams is a private, secure spot for you and your coworkers to find and share information. People who are really serious about software should make. Alan kay was quoted several years ago to the effect that there had been only three new things in software in the preceding 20 years effectively the lifespan of pcs. He gives some specific examples, like the wikipedia page on a programming language being unable to execute any example programs in that language, and the. Happy birthday to linux, the free and open source computer operating system. Become a software engineer online in 3 months and earn americas top salary. Linux is basically a clone of unix when it was accompanied by the gnu toolset. And he is often quoted as having said that what we call oo today is not what he meant. Squeak is an opensource smalltalk programming system with fast execution environments for all major platforms. Kernel hacker alan cox quits linux, intel former linus lieutenant leaving for family reasons by neil mcallister in san francisco 24 jan 20 at 21.
Alan curtis kay born may 17, 1940 is an american computer scientist. Alan systems, being a strategic nearshoring partner offers excellent quality, services, creativity, highest reliability and expertise in development, testing and project management fields and we have been pleased with the service we have received. The quest to make code work like biology just took. Embedded linux conference 2016 san diego, california people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware alan kay, creative think seminar, 1982. Alan kay is still waiting for his dream to come true. A wiki for understanding computer pioneer alan kays worldview, including the personal computer. It was born at xerox parc in the 1970s, created by the brilliant and visionary team of alan kay, dan ingalls, and adele. Some call the kaypro an osborne clone, however it did improve on the design substantially, the most notable being the 9 display. Sugar labs contributes to and helps maintain the awardwinning sugar learning platform, which promotes collaborative learning through sugar activities. Kay received a doctorate in computer science from the university of utah in 1969. It doesnt just involve learning to use the technology. Plc5 programming software alternatives started by guest brian cathey, 11 aug 2005. The key to alan kays view is the reason why a message is sent. It works on windows and unix linux, mac os x, get it now community.
Reportedly, alan kay is the inventor of the term object oriented. Leonard low software dev mgr at amazon linux im hiring. When likely saw that 96boards users craved a usbtouart adapter board, and being foolish and optimistic, he decided to build one himself. The first model was called the ii in order to appear oneup on its biggest competitor, the osborne1. Many projects have been successfully created with squeak. What is gui graphical user interface gui or graphical user interface is used in the modern day computers which utilize the input devices to navigate through the monitor. Why did alan kay once say gnulinux was a budget of bad ideas. Metaphors, magnetic fields, snobbery and slogans the best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan cox linux developer and free software foundation award recipient.
Kernel hacker alan cox quits linux, intel the register. Plc5 programming software alternatives allen bradley. Alan kay has agreed to do an ama today hacker news. It was originally named smalltalk80 by its creators, adele goldberg, dan ingalls and alan kay, but has since been standardized as ansi smalltalk in 1998. He jokes that this afternoons talk can be summed up by the fact that he has to wear two microphones to speak instead of one. A public mailing list and a bug tracking system are provided to both academic and industrial users. Sugar is an activityfocused, freelibre opensource software learning platform for children. Leonard low software development manager amazon web. But most of the systems ideas that programmers use today are from the data and. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Smalltalk is an objectoriented, reflective programming language that features dynamic types. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface. Raspberry pi programming linux learn linux with raspberry pi 3 of 10 creating directories and files. Scratch, squeak, alice and go programming for kids. Alan kay, american computer scientist and winner of the 2003 a. Kay really didnt do either on his own, he was the leader of a. Framac is an extensible and collaborative platform dedicated to sourcecode analysis of c software. We want linux on arm to behave in a consistent way across platforms. The kiddicomp concept, envisioned by alan kay in 1968 while a phd candidate, and later developed and described as the dynabook in his 1972 proposal a personal computer for children of all ages, outlines the requirements for a conceptual portable educational device that would offer similar functionality to that now supplied via a laptop computer or in some of its other incarnations a tablet.
What is gui graphical user interface thetechhacker. Users can take advantages of specific icons and objects on the screen in order to navigate to different features and functions of the operating system and software. Solve software problems with hardware test jigs real world interfaces hardware design has never been easier free software tools. I have recently been able to aquire 2 plc 525 controllers along with the neccessary 1771oad and 1771iad modules. Its not an easy thing to do, but its worth doing, and even educators like alan continue to explore how to do this. Take an alan kay, a mccarthy, norvig, abelson, sussman, armstrong, steele, etc. He directed a research team at the legendary xerox parc, where he led the development of the influential programming language smalltalk, which foreshadowed the first graphical user interfaces.
First, one of the earliest if not the earliest example of a windowed display with general clipping was that of ivan sutherlands sketchpad ca 1962 which windowed a very large virtual display surfa. This page lists free compilers and interpreters for the language. Since a gpl kernel already exists linux, theres no longe. Modern multiprocessing operating systems allow many processes to be active, where each process is a thread of computation being used to execute a program. It is software that gives form and purpose to a programmable machine, much as a sculptor shapes clay omputers are to computing as in struments are to music. The man who would build a computer the size of the. Alan kay, the pioneering computer scientist, has observed that hardware is really just software crystallized early. Alan kay, famed computer scientist, once said, people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. In rope memory, bits of information are represented by threads of wire and tiny doughnutshaped magnetic cores. Jon maddog hall talks unix and linux history duration. Reinventing programming edit kay has lectured extensively on the idea that the computer revolution is very new, and all of the good ideas have not been universally implemented.
However, whats changed between then and now is that hardware has gotten faster, smaller, and most importantly. If you havent heard of alan kay youll likley have heard one of his many famous quotes, the most popular, likely his 1971 gem the best way to predict the future is to invent it. A linux kernel wizards adventures in embedded hardware. Alan kay rethinking design, risk, and software duration. More than any website so far, this one implements the largest piece of the original xerox parc learning research groups vision for programming and education. When an object of class a sends a message to an object of class b because a wants b to do something specific, that isnt oo according to kays vision.
In this article i take a quick look at the great moments in the history of computers during my lifetime. Build your own ambientlight addition for a monitor or media pc television. Sharing is important were all communication junkies. But for the unfamiliar, alan has one of the most illustrious careers in computer science whos been awarded both a kyoto prize and a turing award for his work on object oriented programming. People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware alan kay. Why did alan kay choose rectangular shaped windowing as. Reportedly the device is a dead simple web tablet with a. Shop linux online linux distros on cds, dvds, usb flash. Works using open source processing and arduino so itll run on mac, windows or linux computers. People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Most software today is very much like an egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Scratch is written in squeak more about that in a moment and is an open source project. Downloads are available for windows windows 2000, xp, vista, windows 7 and mac os x 10. Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal if you are all thumbs.
In the early 1970s, at silicon valleys xerox parc, alan kay envisioned computer software as something akin to a biological system, a vast collection of small cells that could communicate via. Smalltalk is an objectoriented programming language with a rich history and a storied legacy. We offer quality linux distros on cd, dvd, and usb drives, as well as printed manuals for many popular linux distros. The linux kernel was released in 1991 according to wikipedia, at which time hurd was still in early development. Alan kay is still waiting for his dream to come true 337 points by sohkamyung on sept 16, 2017.
View alan kays profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Id argue thats as true today as it was in 1982 when he said it. Alan kay, disney fellow and vice president of research and development at the walt disney company, is best known for the idea of personal computing, conception of the intimate laptop computer, invention of the now ubiquitous overlappingwindow interface, and modern objectoriented programming. If a is sending the message to inform b that something has happened rather than telling it to do something, that is oo. View leonard lows profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover alans connections. Smalltalk was created as the language in underpinning the new world of computing exemplified by humancomputer symbiosis. Above all, however, kay is known for the dynabook his decadesold vision of a portable suite of hardware, software, programming tools and services which would add up to the ultimate creative. Standing on the shoulders of good enough25 years of linux. Overlapping window uis are one of the few ideas from the seventies that has been adopted today. Alan kays title slide, up during the intro says is the best way to predict the future to invent,prevent it. Alan curtis kay born 17 may 1940 is an american computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on objectoriented programming and. Cresstcon 16 alan kay keynote the best way to predict the future is to invent it duration.
Linux is basically unix, which dates from 1970, yet is now the hottest thing for many programmers. Kay is a prominent codeveloper of the computer, focusing on its educational software using squeak and etoys. The program was begun and is sustained by kays friend nicholas negroponte, and is based on kays dynabook ideal. Fantasy fulfills a need for a simpler, more controllable world. The rope memory device shown here, a prototype created in 1963 by burroughs corp. Kay is one of the forefathers of personal computing. Alan kay people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
However, it was largely command line driven and often has tools added to the set without deprecating other tools that were prior to it. Why did alan kay say, the internet was so well done, but the web. An operating system is a specialized collection of software that stands between a computers hardware architecture and its applications. An illustrated shell command primer adafruit learning system. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. By running the processing code on your computer, the halo of leds will follow the screen colors to provide an awesome ambient light display that adds pop to tv shows, movies or games. Software design, the future of programming and the art of. Kay sievers is a computer programmer, best known for developing the udev device manager of linux, systemd and the gummiboot efi boot loader. It features the morphic framework, which promotes low effort graphical, interactive application development and maintenance. Why did alan kay once say gnulinux was a budget of bad. The man who would build a computer the size of the entire internet solomon hykes, the driving force behind docker, an open source project that seeks to recast the internet as one giant computer.
Software design, the future of programming and the art of learning. Alan kay, the designer of the smalltalk language, was in a. As alan kay has said, in a phrase that i think deserves to be explored deeply, the music is not in the piano. The kaypro is one of the earliest portable computers. Computer software by alan kay presenting a singletopic issuc on thc concepts and techniques needed to make the computer do ones bidding. This system was the vintage that steve jobs saw the next year. Alan emtage developer for archie the first search engine. Alan kays talk at creative think seminar, july 20, 1982 outline of talk.
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