alan kay

References

Alan Kay's reading list
Kay via wikipedia
"The Power Of The Context" - Alan Kay's tribute to his research community

"Points of View: A Tribute to Alan Kay" book 

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Alan Kay is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering “for the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers,” the Alan M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing Machinery “for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing,” and the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation “for creation of the concept of modern personal computing and contribution to its realization.” This work was done in the rich context of ARPA and Xerox PARC with many talented colleagues.

He has been a Xerox Fellow, Chief Scientist of Atari, Apple Fellow, Disney Fellow, and HP Senior Fellow. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. In 2001 he founded Viewpoints Research Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to children, learning and advanced systems research.http://www.vpri.org

At Viewpoints Research Institute he and his colleagues continue to explore advanced systems and programming design by aiming for a “Moore’s Law” advance in software creation of many orders of magnitude. Kay and Viewpoints are also deeply involved in the One Laptop Per Child initiative. 


if we decide that every child should be taught how to read, write, do math, do science, then how should we go about it in order to provide success for student
but more - how to make sure - better thinking -

squeakland.org


we can do so much more now - grow the brain - than ever - even the geniuses - with software

the big deal about ed - not about math, science, etc
it's about the fact that the human brain is dangerously insane
alford porskipsky - science insanity
best we can do is unsane
we've been fooling ourselves for years - believing our beliefs are real.
now we have the means to find out some truth

does everybody need to be sane?
jefferson was asked this and said - the safest repository for the ultimate powers of society lie in the hands of the people themselves, if they don't have discretion to deal with this, it's not best to take the powers from them, but to educate them to better use this discretion

it's not whether they can do their taxes or arithmetic
but the science about the society they live in - the difference between acting on prejudice and suspending justice, making a model of the situation before you come to a conclusion



viewpoints research institute - via kay



http://www.corestandards.org/
standards originally so people could read this - common sense by paine
instead of having the king be the law - the law could be king

he's talking dmi - math thinking whether or not you are doing what you think math is or not.
what do the operations imply
science is harder - it starts off with uncertainty - so how much uncertainty are you able to get rid of, etc.
the processes go at the base of human thinking itself
 http://www.papert.org/
alan's reading
the education of man, froebel

telementor.org

alan.nemo@yahoo.com

David Weksler: @monk51295 David Neils - head of telementor (@dweksler) is in Ft. Collins, CO

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/David_Hellam/3805

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