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Humane Representation of Thought

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Summary

Bret Victor suggests how each of the human activities in which thought is externalized (conversing, presenting, reading, writing, etc) can be redesigned for a dynamic medium.

Bio

Bret Victor has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis. He’s responsible for “Inventing on Principle”, “Learnable Programming, ”Media for Thinking the Unthinkable“, ”Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction“, ”Magic Ink", and everything else at http://worrydream.com

About the conference

SPLASH — the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity — embraces all aspects of programming, languages, and software construction and delivery. It incorporates OOPSLA, Onward!, the Dynamic Languages Symposium, and a host of workshops, panels, tutorials, demonstrations and invited talks.

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Jun 14, 2015

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