Software Pioneers

sd&m Conference, Bonn 28./29.6.2001

some notes

Alan Kay – A Personal History of User Interface Design

Google Video

OOP concepts in SIMULA

Sketchpad	SIMULA	today’s OOP
master	activity	class
instance	process	instance

RAND Tablet 1964

JOSS Video

Window Controls Defined for GRAIL

Brunner: Mentality

Principles at ALTO

• Modelesnes
• WYSIWYG
• If you can see it, you can change it
• Overlapping Views
• Icons
• Projects
• Select Object – Choose Command

Dataland by Negroponte at MIT

around 1971-77

SDMS – Spatial Data Management System

Zooming User Interface (like Jazz by HCIL 20 years later – Codex - Memex - Genex)

Flipping page animation

Touch Screen

Xerox Alto Videos

• Happy Hacker - Alto Playroom 1
• Happy Hacker - Alto Playroom 2 - Smalltalk Examples
• Bach on Xerox Alto
• Smalltalk-72 Animation Examples on Xerox Alto