Article

Free access

A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages

Author:

Alan C. KayAuthors Info & Claims

ACM '72: Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 1

Article No.: 1

https://doi.org/10.1145/800193.1971922

Published: 22 April 2011 Publication History

Abstract

This note speculates about the emergence of personal, portable information manipulators and their effects when used by both children and adults. Although it should be read as science fiction, current trends in miniaturization and price reduction almost guarantee that many of the notions discussed will actually happen in the near future.

References

[1]

Bush, V., "As We May Think", Atlantic Monthly, September 1946.

[2]

Pines, M., Revolution in Learning, Harper Row, New York.

[3]

Moore, O. K., Andersen, A. R., "Some Principles for the Design of Clarifying Educational Environments," Chapter 10 in Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research, Goslin (Ed), Rand McNally & Co. (1969).

[4]

Papert, S., Solomon, C., "Twenty Things To ' Do with a Computer," AI Laboratory, MIT (1971).

[5]

Papert, S., "LOGO Book Notes," AI Laboratory, MIT (1910).

[6]

Feurzeig, W., et al, "The LOCO Project, Volumes 1-4, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. (1971).

[7]

Kay, A. C., "The Reactive Enqine," U. of Utah. Dept. Computer Science Technical, Report (1969).

[8]

Kay, A. C., "Flex, A Flexible Language", U. of Utah, Dept. of Computer Science Technical Report (1968).

[9]

Reynolds, J., "Gedanken, A Simple Typeless Language Which Permits Functional Data Structures and CoRoutines," Argonne National Laboratory Report ANL-7621, September 1969.

[10]

Fisher, D. A., "Control Structures for Programming Languages," Computer Science Dept., Carnegie-Mellon University Thesis (1970).

Digital Library

[11]

Dahl, O. J., Hygaard, K., "Simula - A Language for Programming and Description of Discrete Event Systems," CACM, October 1966.

[12]

Teitelman, W., et al, "BBN LISP Reference Manual," Bolt, Beranek and Newman (1971).

[13]

Stachey, C., "Towards a Formal Semantics", Formal Language Description Languages for Computer Programming, North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1966.

[14]

Landin, P. J., "A Correspondence Between ALGOL.60 and Churches Lambda Notation," CACH 8, 89-101, 158-165.

[15]

English, W., Lampson, B., Bates, R., Laws, B., Kay, A. C., "A High Quality Loadable Font Video character Generator," PARC Technical Report (1972).

[16]

Wysocki, J. J., et al, "Cholesteric-Nematic Phase Transition Displays," 1971 SID Symposium Proceddings, Winner Publishing, New York.

[17]

Clark, W., "Programming the LINC," Computer Systems Lab, Washington University, St. Louis, Technical Report (1966).

[18]

Wilkes, M., "Conversational Access to a 2048 Word Machine," Computer Systems Lab, WAshington university, St. Louis, Technical Report (1967).

[19]

Stone, Irving, The Agony and the Ectasy, Doubleday.

[20]

Hinsky, M., "Remarks," Proc. Park City Conference on Computers in Undergraduate Education, U. of Utah, Department of Computer Science (1968), W. Viavant (Ed.).

[21]

Roberts, L., "Extension of Packet Communication Technology to a Hand-Held Personal Terminal," Proc. SJCC (1912), AFIPS Press.

Digital Library

Cited By

Hourcade JCurrin F(2023)The 4Cs for Young Children's Technology: Create, Connect, Communicate, and ControlProceedings of the XXIII International Conference on Human Computer Interaction10.1145/3612783.3612812(1-7)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3612783.3612812
Hourcade JAlper MBonsignore EClegg TFails JWalsh GYarosh SYip J(2023)Participatory Approaches to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies for ChildrenProceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3585088.3589926(795-797)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3585088.3589926
Borowski MFog BGriggio CEagan JKlokmose C(2022)Between Principle and Pragmatism: Reflections on Prototyping Computational Media with WebstratesACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/356989530:4(1-53)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3569895
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications

Recommendations

Personal Computer Communications
Tablet: personal computer of the year 2000

A design represents a compromise between conflicting goals, and the design of the personal computer of the year 2000 is no exception. We seek something that will fit comfortably into people's lives while dramatically changing them. This may appear to be ...
Computer and Internet Dictionary for Ages 9 to 99

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

ACM '72: Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 1

August 1972

194 pages

ISBN:9781450374910

DOI:10.1145/800193

Copyright © 2011 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

Sponsors

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 22 April 2011

Check for updates

Qualifiers

Article

Conference

ACM '72

Sponsor:

ACM

August 1, 1972

Massachusetts, Boston, USA

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

20
Total Citations
View Citations
2,471
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)781
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)94

Reflects downloads up to 13 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Hourcade JCurrin F(2023)The 4Cs for Young Children's Technology: Create, Connect, Communicate, and ControlProceedings of the XXIII International Conference on Human Computer Interaction10.1145/3612783.3612812(1-7)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2023
Hourcade JAlper MBonsignore EClegg TFails JWalsh GYarosh SYip J(2023)Participatory Approaches to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies for ChildrenProceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3585088.3589926(795-797)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2023
Borowski MFog BGriggio CEagan JKlokmose C(2022)Between Principle and Pragmatism: Reflections on Prototyping Computational Media with WebstratesACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/356989530:4(1-53)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2022
Hahn JWimmer R(2021)Sketchable Interaction: Drawing User Interfaces with Interactive RegionsExtended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411763.3451567(1-4)Online publication date: 8-May-2021
Tracy K(2021)SoftwareundefinedOnline publication date: 6-Sep-2021
Ingalls D(2020)The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through SqueakProceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages10.1145/33863354:HOPL(1-101)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2020
Nouwens MBorowski MFog BKlokmose CBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Between Scripts and Applications: Computational Media for the Frontier of NanoscienceProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3313831.3376287(1-13)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2020
Eriksson EIversen OBaykal GVan Mechelen MSmith RWagner MFog BKlokmose CCumbo BHjorth AMusaeus LPetersen MBouvin N(2019)Widening the scope of FabLearn ResearchProceedings of the FabLearn Europe 2019 Conference10.1145/3335055.3335070(1-9)Online publication date: 28-May-2019
Frich JBiskjaer MDalsgaard P(2018)Why HCI and Creativity Research Must Collaborate to Develop New Creativity Support ToolsProceedings of the Technology, Mind, and Society10.1145/3183654.3183678(1-6)Online publication date: 5-Apr-2018
Coleman MHinze AHall LTurner P(2017)Visual semantic enrichment for ereadingProceedings of the 31st British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.96(1-6)Online publication date: 3-Jul-2017
Show More Cited By

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten