[Cuis] Rosario Conference Query

[Casey Ransberger]

To the extent that we have the hardware technology to build a DynaBook today, I'm totally confident that we're there. On the other hand, there's definitely not a "product" on the market yet which enables the kind of thing we're after yet; they're all mired in bad ideas and DRM. There will be lots of passionate people scrambling to make the real thing happen. Hopefully someone pulls it off soon and finds a willing market. 

To the extent that there's an interactive curriculum befitting the original vision, I've got some doubts.

Anyway I'd love it if you could point me at anything, even just a summary, of the Martin McClure talk. 

Casey

On Nov 5, 2013, at 3:48 AM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> On 11/3/2013 1:23 PM, Ken Dickey wrote:
>> Juan&  Germán,
>> 
>> Speaking for those of us unable to attend Rosario, if you have time it would be pleasant to read some notes of the conference on what you found of interest.  Any special "buzz"?
>> 
>> Germán, could you give a brief synopsis of your demo?
>> 
>> Inquiring minds..
>> -KenD
> 
> Unfortunately I was at Rosario only for a very brief time. I could only attend to the Friday afternoon talks. Next year I'll try to attend the whole conference...
> 
> The one I enjoyed the most was Leandro's wonderful keynote on where ideas come from, and how to make them 'appear'. It was deeply inspiring.
> 
> I also enjoyed Martin McClure's talk about Mist. I think Mist is an important experiment, and will teach us a lot. The main idea is replace inheritance with class composition (something like stateful traits), and use this new feature to model both 'is a' and 'has a' relations. This, together with some changes to our concepts of 'self' and 'super' make up for a different programming experience. Time will tell (I hope), if this eases overall development and maintenance easier or not.
> 
> My talk had two parts. The first one was about the possibility of having a real Dynabook for us, and the reasons for starting Cuis, a few years ago. The second part was a quick overview of some of the tasks I used Cuis for at Satellogic, mainly image processing stuff. I'll publish the slides soon, when I find a couple of hours to prepare them. (yes, I guess I should have done that *before* the talk, not afterwards... :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
> 
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