alankay1

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by alankay1 10y ago
What does an "Intergalactic Network" need?
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by alankay1 10y ago
The Simula guys cannot be too highly praised, especially Nygaard.
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by alankay1 10y ago
It would be great for the programs themselves to somehow be "literate". That said, it is quite a bit of work to write an essay (Don Knuth makes it look easy, but ...)
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by alankay1 10y ago
I'm not a big fan of most UIs today (not that I was a big fan of those in the past -- but they seem generally worse in basic outlook)
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by alankay1 10y ago
A PhD program is very much about the context of forefront ideas and people. I lucked into one -- that got me to realize that this is what prospective grad students should be looking for.
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by alankay1 10y ago
See what you can find out from the web on this one ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
I should get you to articulate this yourself But let's see -- how about UIs giving up on UNDO, not allowing or not showing multiple tasks, not having good ways to teach how to us the UI or the apps, ... And a zillion more ... Yikes!
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by alankay1 10y ago
I was really into this stuff 40-50 years ago. It's still an interesting area to ponder.
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by alankay1 10y ago
I'm always working one way or another on helping children grow up to be caretakers of the 21st century.
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by alankay1 10y ago
"Simple" is not the main force in a good programming language
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by alankay1 10y ago
I should probably do this, but also probably won't ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
I'm not really an engineer -- but yes music furnishes many good parallels and metaphors ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
Yes.
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by alankay1 10y ago
Take a look at Hiroshi Ishii's "Clearboard" etc (look on YouTube)
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by alankay1 10y ago
Not close as things are currently and have been ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
I've looked at it -- some good ideas there. Often formal systems have problems in scaling, etc.
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by alankay1 10y ago
This has been done -- many times -- check them out and see what you think ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
Try to understand the nature of "pop culture", especially as it relates to "traditional cultures", to human genetics, etc. What does a pop culture want? (What do people in a pop culture really want?) And why? What are &q
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by alankay1 10y ago
Sure.
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by alankay1 10y ago
Try to avoid "growing old"! A big problem with the general industry is the lack of subsidized "sabbatical years" -- these are a good way to recharge and re-orient. Xerox, amazingly, used to have them for employees. But I
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by alankay1 10y ago
I grew up in a house filled with books and parents and relatives who were in many fields. This ruined me for school (and that helped, though it was a struggle). Here is a "personal essay" I was asked to write in 2004: http:&#x2F
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by alankay1 10y ago
I think there is a lot of potential here (think 10 years and you might get something useful in the first 5). This will require great will on the part of those trying to make it happen (the market is not demanding something great -- and neit
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by alankay1 10y ago
CDG has morphed into HARC, etc. And I do plan to be active.
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by alankay1 10y ago
I think "real AI" could help (because it could also explain as well as configure). Systems that can't explain themselves (and most can't) are a very bad idea.
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by alankay1 10y ago
I don't know -- I'm not a software engineer -- but I think this is a very tough profession to do well.
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by alankay1 10y ago
It would be great to have a notion of type that would actually pay for itself in real clarity. For example, what would be really useful in many dimensions is "semantic types" rather than value oriented types (which I don't th
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by alankay1 10y ago
Have you seen the "gyre" in the Pacific?
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by alankay1 10y ago
This is a really interesting issue and one we should all be thinking about ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
Parc in the 70s was an outgrowth of the ARPA projects that were started to be set up in 1962. Bob Taylor was a factor for both, and wanted young researchers who already had imbibed the mother's milk of "the ARPA dream", This
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by alankay1 10y ago
Please try to avoid too much planning for your future at this point and just try to get to a place where things are going on. Any good educational experience will take someone who is trying to get from A to B and instead get them to C (note

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