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Adobe DevNet Article Publishing Soon

August 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Article to be published on Adobe Developer Center
Packing Lite: Getting Started Designing Interfaces for Mobile Media
I wrote an article/tutorial for Adobe’s Developer Center to be published at the end of August covering how to get started designing interfaces in Flash Lite on Nokia Series 60 devices. It details how to get equipped for mobile media [...]

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New ‘Processing’ Handbook Looks Amazing

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Eagerly Awaiting Book Release; Creators Release Substantial Sample Chapters.
For the uninitiated, Processing→ is an open interactive media platform published on free software license via MIT by Casey Reas→ and Ben Fry→. Originally created as a learning tool, it is maturing through a Beta phase currently while winning tremendous support within the academic and design [...]

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Adobe AIR Seminar with Big Spaceship

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

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Adobe Integrated Runtime demonstrated by Big Spaceship.

This afternoon, Joshua Hirsch and Jamie Kosoy from Big Spaceship, here in Brooklyn, presented Building Adobe AIR Applications with Flash CS3 on the Adobe Connect presentation service.

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Sketchpad, The World’s First

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communications System.

Between 1962 and 1964, Dr. Ivan Sutherland created Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communications System, arguably the world’s first computer graphics system, and non-procedural programming system.

Ivan Sutherland at the TX-2 using Sketchpad

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Tags: Academic Lecture

Memex, The Dawn of Informatics

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

“AS WE MAY THINK” BY DR. VANNEVAR BUSH

Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly→,As We May Think→” (July, 1945), a member of the Manhattan Project proposes the [tag]Memex[/tag]↔, a sort of microfilm-based knowledge desk. Many consider the Memex to be the pre-digital precursor to the idea of the Web and Internet as we know it today. It may reflect the dawn of the information age.

Memex diagramDr. Vannevar Bush, creator of the MemexMemex camera diagram

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