What happened to the original vision of a personal dynamic medium for creative thought? Retrospect reveals insights that help to reconcile the desktop environment with the Web in order to design a consistent and powerful way to interact with the computer. Join me on this fascinating trip to discover the common roots of the PC Desktop and the World Wide Web.
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Master Thesisby Matthias Müller-Prove, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Horst Oberquelle and Prof. Dr. Christopher Habel. |
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| January |  Ivan Sutherland on Leadership, Sun 2006 |
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| 2009 | internal updates | external news | |
| November | link from OSnews: Common Usability Terms: pt. IX: the Menu
referenced by Reformation Bibles and the Personal Computer, Kaoru Yamazaki, 2002 |
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| October | section 2.1.14 World Wide Web is online | link from interstices.info: Synthèse d'images
link from Sourcebits Blog: Handy Resources for Those Who Like to Doodle |
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| June | Kapitel 5 online: Vom Persönlichen Computer zum Sozialen Medium. Paradigmenwechsel der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion | The Future of the Desktop by Nova Spivack ReadWriteWeb, Aug 2008
Aurora concept video, Adaptive Path |
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| May | Chapter 2.1.15 Hyper-G/Hyperwave | ||
| March | links to Department of Informatics Hamburg fixed | ||
| 2008 | internal updates | external news | |
| December | Chapter 2.1.3 NLS/Augment Chapter 3.1.3 NLS/Augment |
40 year anniversary of the mothe of all demos | |
| October | referenced by Peter Friedrich Stephan: Cognitive Design – Eine Perspektive der Designforschung, 2005
linked at History of Pen Computing: Annotated Bibliography in On-line Character Recognition and Pen Computing |
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| July | new section online: Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointing Device | ||
| February | Fixed links to Bruce Horn and his iFile project | ||
| January | Interface Culture (blog) | ||
| 2007 | internal updates | external news | |
| October | linked by Jon Berry's Essay #1 - Literary Website Critique - Sam Hughes' "Ed" | ||
| September | Philipp Dennert's diploma: Enabling the User. Zu den historischen Möglichkeitsbedingungen des Computer-Benutzers. 105 pages, 4.8 MB | ||
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Alan Kay 1972: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages |
Dr. h.c. to Alan Kay | |
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A Duel Between Desktop and Web – presentation at reboot9 |
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Dueling Interaction Models of Personal-Computing and Web-Computing – presentation at MEDICHI |
referenced by velasquez: Il Futuro del Desktop, Oct 2006 (Italian) |
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| 2006 | internal updates | external news | |
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Chapter 3.1.2 Sketchpad is online |
Reference from Alan Blackwell: The reification of metaphor as a design tool |
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I like the reference to my chapter Three Stages of Human Development on |
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bookmarks on del.iccio.us |
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article on Ted Nelson and Xanadu with a special focus on the incorporated copyright issues Mac UI Ain't All That: The Future & History of the User Interface by John Kheit Alan Kay at U of Utah (2 lectures in Feb 2006) |
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| May | updated links to Engelbart's papers in References and in Friedewald's Resources | ||
| Mar | Ted Nelson 1999: Way Out Of The Box | referenced by | |
| Feb | referenced by iqnaut: Hypertext | ||
| Jan | referenced by VIS242. Theories of Media and New Media, University of California, San Diego | ||
| 2005 | internal updates | external news | |
| Dec | Ted Nelson lecture at U of Oxford, 2005 (webcast) | ||
| Nov | cited in Evolución y tendencias en la interacción persona–ordenador por Mireia Ribera Turró, profesora en la Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación de la Universidad de Barcelona. | ||
| Oct | A lecure and 3 new articles by Alan Kay (watch out for the stars)
An Evening with Ivan Sutherland at the Computer History Museum |
Computer History Museum: Software Collection Commitee is preserving NLS/Augment
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| Aug | Kempelen Prize 2005 | ||
| Jul | 60 Jahre nach Memex: Über die Unvereinbarkeit von Desktop- und Web-Paradigma | Memex Simulator – an open source project in progress
A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator by K. Andrew Edmonds, James Blustein and Don Turnbull |
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reboot7 |
SiliconValleyWatcher June 9: A tribute to one of Silicon Valley's most influential and forgotten researchers at Xerox Parc event
Referenced on delicious by smi and acer |
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Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad - A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System is online as pdf: [Sutherland 63a] |
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| Mar | In Memoriam: Jef Raskin | cited in Evolution der Neuen Medien in der Lehre 19 Seiten, 544kB by Marc-Oliver Pahl, entstanden zum eLearning-Seminar von Frank Hanisch am Institut für graphisch interaktive Systeme der Universität Tübingen, 2003
referenced by exsugo.de ->douglas_c_engelbart /Mirago |
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| Feb | Kay/Goldberg 77: Personal Dynamic Media | The New Media Reader
referenced by Advanced Concepts in Document Processing, Seminar at U of Magdeburg, Germany |
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section 3.2.2 Three Stages of Human Development online Interview wiith Kay, Papert, and Minsky, ACM Communications 2005 Designing the Star User Interface [Smith et al. 82] online |
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| 2004 | internal updates | external news | |
| Dec | Resources on the concept of Learning | referenced by Tom Kindig on tokind | |
| Nov | referenced by Jörg Richter on DeepaMehta: Human-Computer Interaction | ||
| Jul | Alan Kay 1977: Microelectronics and the Personal Computer | referenced by Jochen Denzinger on designing ubicomp_weblog; |
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| Jun | historical overviews of chapter 2 Hypertext and chapter 3 Graphical User Interfaces are now online | ||
| May | This work is listed at Infomine as record #303789.
reference in folk.uio.no/oddc/sider/bokmerker.html |
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| Apr | Polaroids of the early Lisa UI by Andy Hertzfeld | squeak news: Turing Award goes to Alan Kay | |
| Jan | 38 pages of Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines transcripted | ||
| 2003 | internal updates | external news | |
| Dec | reference on understanding interface (in deutsch) by Sascha Kirschgens | ||
| Nov | 50 minutes video of Ted Nelson at ACM Hypertext 01 | ||
| Oct | More than 100 people have requested a copy of my work. Time to say thank you!
5 new reference to this page on |
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| Sep | Related Articles: The Commercial Feasibility of a Next-Generation User Interface by Jared White
Ted Nelson's keynote at HT03 in Nottingham |
papers citing my thesis:
Drag & Drop Scripting: How To Do Hypermedia Right by F. Hanisch and W. Straßer, University of Tübingen, Sep 2003 Multiple Links im World Wide Web von Volkert Buchmann, Studienarbeit an der Uni Hamburg. Nov 2002 |
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| Jun | new references to Alan Kay’s thoughts | new references on langreiter.com, and by Stefan Rinner.st, and on the Wiki pages at emergent.de: Reflection in Action | |
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History: DigiBarn Computer Museum Past Projects: 30th anniversary of the Xerox Alto |
This site is references by DigiBarn Computer Museum’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines Retrospective and by Wikipedia on Alan Kay | |
| Feb | Alan Kay joins HP Labs
Link maintenance on Web References |
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| Jan | Current Projects: Abora Hypertext Systems
related thesis: hypertextual criticism. MA by Jill Walker |
This site is references by abora.org - links
thesis announced at the CHI Recently Completed Theses List referenced in Hypertexte im Unterricht: Begriffsbestimmung und didaktische Funktion - Manfred Overmann 2003 |
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| 2002 | internal updates | external news | |
| Dec | Current Research Teams: Frode Hegland’s Liquid Information is back on air. He is also working on a documentary “Invisible Revolution - The Doug Engelbart Story” for TV/DVD. | ||
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Bruce Horn is working on a new Finder: iFile Michael McGuffin's work on Fitt's Law: thesis and paper for CHI 2002 |
This Site is referenced by apeshallnotkillape.org and the |
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Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad - A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System is online as facsimile: [Sutherland 63a] |
This Site is referenced by Marcus Denker’s Wiki pages at the keyword Computer History. It is also refernced by Thomas Madsen-Mygdal’s CommonMe.org. |
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Eine kurze Geschichte der Softwareergonomie – Eine Ausstellung anläßlich der Mensch & Computer 2002 in Hamburg
met with Alan Kay – delightful! |
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Mail from David Curbow on Xerox Star/ViewPoint second printing of FBI-HH-B-237/02 |
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Past Projects: Apple Lisa – original documentation |
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updates on the the page Unfinished Revolution (contents for session III and session IV). And a bunch of new publications by Alan Kay (References) |
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the thesis is published as a report of the Department of Informatics: Bericht des Fachbereichs Informatik, Universität Hamburg: FBI-HH-B-237/02 | ||
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thesis rated 1.3 (magna cum laude) | ||
| 2001 | internal updates | external news | |
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The Making Of: Seminar Studien- und Diplomarbeiten
12 Nov 2001 : filed the final version today |
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Oberseminarvortrag: Vision und Wirklichkeit des Hypertexts und der Grafischen Benutzungsschnittstellen Abstract | ||
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Related Reports and Articles: Beyond the Browser: Rediscovering the Role of the Desktop in a Net-centric World |
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New title: Vision and Reality of Hypertext and Graphical User Interfaces (was: Vision and Reality of Hypertext and the Graphical User Interface); mostly because of [Nelson 99b] «this so-called GUI - I would rather call it the PUI (PARC User Interface) {{laughter}} because there are so many millions of graphical user interfaces possible» |
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Nelson’s Canons: A Bill of Information Rights taken from Dream Machines, 74 |
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Post von Ludger Humbert: Alan Kay verläßt Disney |
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Ted Nelson’s and Alan Kay’s bibliography |
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Post von Marcus Denker zu Dynabook und Squeak |
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[Friedewald 99] References and Resources |
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met with Tog and Jakob Nielsen | ||
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Alan Kay on his Ph.D. thesis (e-mail) |
day 1 of my thesis: 13-Nov | |
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Past Projects: Symbolics Document Examiner/Concordia |
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Current Projects: Semantic Web |
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History: RWTH Aachen - Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Technik |
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Past Projects: Taligent, HotJava Views |
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Current Projects: Alan Kay - Smalltalk, Ben Shneiderman - PAD++ |
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Current Research Teams: Links to Bootstrap Institute & Liquid Information Organization |
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Google search on ontological drift, Semiotisches Dreieck |
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Current Projects: Ted Nelson - Xanadu |
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Current Research Teams: Robert Cailliau |
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History: Nerds Current Projects: Eazel |
Launch of this web site | ||
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Current Research Teams:Pliant, AskTog, Byteburg |
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