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The computer spreadsheet doesn't get enough credit among computer programmers. I think that more than any other one concept, VisiCalc, 1-2-3, and Excel were the killer app for the personal computer.
View ArticleMesh Networks
There's an interesting short editorial in Tech Review about the significance of mesh networks. This is where wireless networks can be made from a vast network of independent, individually owned,...
View ArticleWhat politician will claim, “I destroyed the Internet?”
I admit I haven't thought through the implications of the FCC's recent orders about the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act , but I'm pretty damn sure that our leaders haven't thought it...
View ArticleCollateral
It's been heads-down hard work around here ever since OOPSLA in October. Haven't even filed my expense report yet.
View ArticleEnter Hedgehog
The first real release of Croquet is nigh.... David Reed describes Croquet as invention in public of a technical model for enabling cooperation at all levels. For example, the two main non-Croquet...
View ArticleWhat the Dormouse Said
Everyone's been waiting patiently for Hedgehog . There's no way to know when the next step of David Reed's Tea Time will be available. As David Smith and Andreas Raab began working on Simplified Tea...
View ArticleThe KAT
Our KidsFirst project includes a great deal of what we've learned about Croquet. We're making all the code available through the CroquetSource code repository, as part of the Contributions collection...
View ArticleA Brief Response To Richard Bennett's New Paper
I salute Richard Bennett's new paper Designed for Change , in which he traces the engineering history of the end-to-end principle . It is a serious paper and deserving of serious response....
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