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The Dynabook was a conceptual system proposed by Xerox PARC in the late-1960s and early-1970s. The ideas behind it led to the development of the Alto prototype, which embodied all the elements of a graphical user interface, or GUI, as early as 1972. The software component of this research was Smalltalk, which went on to have a life of its own independent of the Dynabook concept. ImageMetadata File history File links Dynabook. ...
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A Xerox Alto Computer System The Xerox Alto, developed at Xerox PARC in 1973, was the first personal computer and the first computer to use the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI). ...
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The Dynabook concept described what is now known as a laptop computer or, (in some of its other incarnations) a tablet PC or slate computer with nearly eternal battery life and software aimed mostly at giving children unlimited expression opportunities with all digital media imaginable. Adults could also use a Dynabook from the start, but the target audience would be children, and the software would grow up with them. An ultraportable IBM X31 with 12 screen on an IBM T43 Thin & Light laptop with a 14 screen A laptop computer, or simply laptop (also notebook computer or notebook), is a small mobile computer, which usually weighs 2. ...
A tablet PC is a notebook- or slate-shaped mobile computer. ...
Alan Kay was the main proponent of the Dynabook concept. When Microsoft came up with its tablet PC he was quoted as saying "Microsoft's Tablet PC, the first Dynabook-like computer good enough to criticize," a comment he had earlier applied to the Apple Macintosh. Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. ...
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Kay wanted the Dynabook concept to embody the learning theories of Jerome Bruner and some of what Seymour Papert, who had studied with developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, was proposing. The hardware on which the programming environment ran was relatively irrelevant. Since the late-1990s, Kay has been working on the Squeak programming system, an open source Smalltalk-based environment which could be seen as a logical continuation of the Dynabook concept. Toshiba also has a line of sub-notebook computers called DynaBook. Jerome S. Bruner (b. ...
Seymour Papert Seymour Papert (born March 1, 1928 Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. ...
Piaget, by André Koehne Jean Piaget [] (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development. ...
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The Squeak programming language is a Smalltalk implementation, derived directly from Smalltalk-80, by Smalltalks originators during their time at Apple Computer and later, at Walt Disney Imagineering, where it was intended for use in internal Disney projects such as a Mickey Mouse PDA. It is object-oriented, and...
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Alan Kay was actively involved in the One Laptop Per Child project, that uses Smalltalk, Squeak and the concepts of a computer for learning. First working prototype of $100 laptop One Laptop Per Child is a non-profit organization set up to oversee the $100 laptop project. ...
Though the hardware required to create a Dynabook is here today, Alan Kay still thinks the Dynabook hasn't been invented yet. The key software and educational curriculum are the missing pieces.
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The Childrens Machine, also known as XO-1 and previously as the $100 Laptop, is a proposed inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to children around the world, especially to those in developing countries, to provide them with access to knowledge and modern forms of education. ...
External links - Alan Kay on the Flex, the KiddiComp, the Dynabook and his other work
- Dynabook Revisited
- From the Dynabook to Squeak - A Study in Survivals
- The World in your Own Notebook. A scanned magazine article from The Best of Creative Computing Volume 3
- Sketchpad, Grail and the Interim Dynabook: Alan Kay QuickTime movie clip from a conference The History of the Personal Workstation, 27 May 1986
- Tracing the Dynabook: A Study of Technocultural Transformations; PhD dissertation about the Dynabook project and vision
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