Xref: utzoo comp.windows.misc:951 comp.sys.next:1184 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!vx2!ittai From: ittai@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: music composition (was replacing the desktop metaphor) Message-ID: <256@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> Date: 8 Jan 89 17:47:00 GMT References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <2350@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <1872@titan.sw.mcc.com> Organization: Stern School of Business, New York University Lines: 41 In article <1872@titan.sw.mcc.com>, janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen) writes: > >%A Vannevar Bush > >%T As We May Think > >%J Altantic Monthly > >%D August 2 1945 > > More easily found in: > > Irene Grief (ed.), COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK: A BOOK OF READINGS, > Morgan-Kaufman, CA, 1988. > > along with all kinds of other good stuff. > > Bill And also in: Goldberg, Adele, ed. @ux(A History of Personal Workstations). New York: ACM Press, 1988. Which was recently published and made available from the ACM. It is the edited proceedings of the January 1986 conference of the same name, which brought together many of the people who stubbornly persisted in developing personal workstations since the 1950s against the grain of the computer industry. It is fascinating! Unfortunately, the banquet address by Alan Kay, which is available on videotape, was not adapted into an essay; Kay seems to have forsaken the discipline required to communicate ideas in an essay. This is a shame, for Alan Kay has had a profound impact on the technology and has a lot of valuable things to say. Also, while I'm writing, the original discussion was about the desktop metaphor -- readers may be interested in the following short piece: Malone, Thomas W. ``How Do People Organize Their Desks? Implications for the Design of Office Information Systems''. @ux(ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems), January 1983. Cheers, -Ittai