So this is a pre-post, I’ll put more here when I finish the reading, but I wanted to make a quick communication to my classmates: bring your ipad today get the free app: SpaceTeam Composite case studies/characters?!
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This week’s reading in the New Media Faculty Seminar: Awakening the Digital Imagination, is from Bob Viola’s “Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space.” I found the excerpt a bit challenging to comprehend as a whole, but I did pull out several points of interest and intersections with my current classes, work, or interests. This… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readingDid y’all know that Alan Kay (like a few other of our authors for this semester) is a Turing Award winner?! I got to see him and Hal Abelson at the computer science education conference in Raleigh a few years ago (2012). Anyways, I like Alan Kay, and this reading. Some points: (p. 2/394) They… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readingReading from Engelbart’s, Augmenting Human Intellect, for this week’s seminar, I’m reflecting on my own research group’s current thinking. Consider the following summary of a grant we were just awarded (before the shutdown!) from NSF, “In a short period of time, computerization has moved from providing a counterpoint to life, with the potential to highlight… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readingEngelbart’s 1968 “Mother of all Demos” of an MVC system including real-time collaboration over a network (pre-dating the Internet) is just incredible, always an inspiring watch. I’m excited to continue our discussions in the New Media Faculty Seminar: Awakening the Digital Imagination. The very beginning included the “call and response of fantasist and engineer, philosopher… Read the rest of this post here.
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