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SUO: [Fwd: Collaboration Architectures]

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re: wiki engines & web portals

jack park has been building and tracking advanced wiki/web portals,
and may be able to add a comment.  here is notice of the "croquet"
system under dev by alan kay.  with regard to math/phys/music etc.,
though, why waste our time with popular misconceptions, when folks
of the caliber of eris weisstein, backed up by wolfram, have done
a mountain of first rate work already.  come to think of it,
maybe we could talk him into adding an "ontology" tab to
his file folder ...

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

jon awbrey

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Jon,
I attended the Croquet presentation. I think that what Kay and his friends 
are doing is nothing short of brilliant. I could easily be persuaded to 
migrate my ideas into the Croquet environment once it is stable.

Jack

At 06:40 AM 5/17/2003, you wrote:
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>N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
> >
> > ... but in practice we don't have the staff
> > to make that kind of detailed updating.
> > In fact we don't have any staff.
> > It is just me, and the number
> > of new sequences and comments
> > are steadily increasing. ...
> > Neil Sloane
>
>Maybe it's time for the SeqFan community
>to start looking around for some sort of
>"collaboration architecture" to distribute
>the workload.  I have been hearing about
>a number of these lately, but haven't yet
>picked up on them enough to try them out --
>here is just the most recent blurb I got,
>on a system called "Croquet":
>
> > Subj: PCD 4/25//03, Alan Kay, HP, Croquet
> > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:36:17 -0700
> > From: Terry Winograd <winograd@CS.Stanford.EDU>
> >   To: pcd-seminar@lists.Stanford.EDU, colloq@CS.Stanford.EDU
> >
> > *************************************************************
> > Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
> > Home page: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar
> >
> > This talk will be available as on-line video.  Look under Computer 
> Science 547 in
> > http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/courseList.asp
> >
> > *************************************************************
> > Friday, April 18, 2003, 12:30-2:00pm
> > Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN
> >
> > Alan Kay, HP Labs
> > Alan.Kay@squeakland.org
> > http://www.opencroquet.org
> >
> > TITLE: Croquet: A Collaboration Architecture
> >
> > ABSTRACT:
> >
> > Croquet is a computer software architecture built from the ground up 
> with a
> > focus on deep collaboration between teams of users. It is a totally open,
> > totally free, highly portable extension to the Squeak programming 
> system, a
> > modern variant of Smalltalk. Croquet is a complete development and 
> delivery
> > platform for doing real collaborative work. There is no distinction 
> between
> > the user environment and the development environment.
> >
> > Croquet is also a totally ad hoc multi-user network. It mirrors the 
> current
> > incarnation of the World Wide Web in many ways, in that any user has the
> > ability to create and modify a "home world" and create links to any other
> > such world. But in addition, any user, or group of users (assuming
> > appropriate sharing privileges), can visit and work inside any other world
> > on the net. Just as the World Wide Web has links between the web pages,
> > Croquet allows fully dynamic connections between worlds via spatial
> > portals.  The key differences are that Croquet is a fully dynamic
> > environment, everything is a collaborative object, and Croquet
> > is fully modifiable at all times.
> >
> > Croquet is a joint project being developed by David A. Smith, Alan Kay,
> > David P. Reed, and Andreas Raab.  More information is available at:
> > http://www.opencroquet.org
> >
> > *************************************************************
> > Alan Kay is one of the pioneers of personal computing. In 1966 he helped
> > invent "object-oriented programming" In 1967-9 he and Ed Cheadle invented
> > the FLEX Machine, a very early modern desktop machine they called a
> > "personal computer" which led to his design of the Dynabook, "a personal
> > computer for children of all ages," in the form of a very portable
> > notebook, with a flat-screen, stylus, wireless network, and local storage.
> > At Xerox PARC in the 70s he invented Smalltalk, which was the first
> > complete dynamic object oriented language, development, and operating
> > system, and was one of the instigators for the first bitmap displays and
> > the main inventor of the now ubiquitous overlapping windows, icons,
> > point-click-and-drag user interface.
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