Squeak Research z Story y Where Squeak Central

Squeak Research z. Story y. Where Squeak Central is going xhttp: //www. squeak. org y. What others are doing xhttp: //minnow. cc. gatech. edu/squeak/ y. What the Georgia Tech Squeakers are doing x. Collaborative Software Lab xhttp: //coweb. cc. gatech. edu/csl/ 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 1

Where Squeak Central is Going z Projects y. Completely externalizable z Environments y. Can have different classes and methods, even conflicting 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 2

Current SC goal: Omni. User z. Want Hyper. Card ease of use and flexibility z. But support wide range of media and more powerful constructs y. E. g. , allow us to get down to the Squeak level 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 3

Maybe new kinds of abstractions in Squeak z Prolog father('John', 'Mary'). "John is the father of Mary" father('John', 'David'). father('David', 'Jack'). father('Arthur', 'Nancy'). "x is the grand. Pa of y. " grand. Pa(x, y) : father(x, z), or(father(z, y), mother(z, y)). LCompiler evaluate: 'Family new : ? grand. Pa(''John'', y)’ “(('Nancy' ) ('Jack' ) )” 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 4

Squeak Hardware z. Now y. Squeak on a bare Mitsubishi chip y. Pen and serial port support z. Coming y. Squeak on a Strong. Arm board y. Squeak on Playstation II and Dream. Cast 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 5

Related SC projects z. Thing. Lab z. Fabrik z. HW 3 -D z. Squeak plugin z. New instruments 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 6

What others are doing: Math. Morphs zhttp: //mathmorphs. swiki. net 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 7

Math. Morphs z. Converting all of a math curriculum to Squeak y. Sort-of graphical Mathematica z. Interesting interface features y“Typing on air” y. Drag and drop arguments y. Classes as graphical objects 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 8

Siren: Stephen Pope’s Computer Music World z. Only for Power. Mac now y. But generalized for others to port z. Uses high-end MIDI, new kinds of UI (e. g. , new representations of music), and powerful abstractions on top of music ideas 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 9

Siren UI Ideas 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 10

Siren Music Tools 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 11

Siren Music Abstractions (Event. List new. Named: #Chord 1) add: ((1/2 beat), 'd 3' pitch, 'mf' ampl) at: 0; add: ((1/2 beat), 'fs 3' pitch, 'mf' ampl) at: 0; add: ((1/2 beat), 'a 4' pitch, 'mf' ampl) at: 0 “Drum roll” ((Roll length: 2000 rhythm: 50 note: 60) ampl: 80) play “Mark Lentczner's bell peals ring the changes. “ (Peal upon: #(60 62 65)) play 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 12

Others’ Projects z Interval Research y. Real Time Operating System (RTOS) z Squeak NOS (No Operating System) - UBA folk z Squeak Quick. Time z Dan Schaffer’s We. Talk. Network z Entry. Point. com z Adaptive ywww. swiki. net, netunify. com 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 13

Collaborative Software Lab: “Georgia Tech Squeakers” z. Our interest is in collaborative Dynabooks z. Co. Webs (Swikis) are our largest projects y. Over 10 servers y. Over 120 Swikis x 2 Co. OL, Model/Matlab y. Research questions: x. Do these help learning? x. How do we help teachers use them? x. How do we improve usability, flexibility? 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 14

Co. Webs and Comanche z. Co. Web software today by Jochen “Je 77” Rick y. Aiming toward “Swiki Structures” y. Personalized hypertext, used from a wearable z. Comanche by Bolot Kerimbaev y. Very efficient webserver y. Flexible, well-integrated with Squeak x. Can return Forms and Sounds 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 15

Non-Web Swikis z. Mu. Swiki (Lex Spoon) 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 16

Real-Time Collaboration z. I-Scream (Brian Payne and Jonathan Greene) z. IWIN (Dean “Dino” Mao) 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 17

Multimedia Literacy z. Creating and exploring media is important y. That’s where we’re going, so rather be a literate consumer y. Can be important for learning z. Starting with Sound y. Music Editor (Eddie Cottongim) y. Audio. Explorer (Jochen Rick) 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 18

Future of CSL z Mu. Swiki -> Projects Swiki y Projects + Environments > HTML + Co. Web z Cataloging everything that people are doing with Co. Webs! PROJECT STARTED z Serious evaluation - THREE CLASSES 2000 -2001 y Controlled studies of learning with Swiki z Collaboration as a Meta-Service JUST GOT FUNDED! y You ask for it, you get it z Ectropic Design y Supporting open source development 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 19

Yes, you can get involved! z. Projects ideas off my home page y. Senior research or UROC y“subscribe squeakers” to majordomo@cc. gatech. edu z. Main Squeak list: squeak@cs. uiuc. edu y. See http: //www. squeak. org for subscription information 12/25/2021 Copyright 2000, Mark Guzdial 20