Week 2 – February 6

Discussion of Assigned Readings and Postings. History of the GUI

PARC: The Palo Alto Research Center of Xerox.
Memory Palaces
Mappa Mundi
Lynx – Lynx User Guide – http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.6/lynx2-8-6/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html
Second Life

Show:
http://www.parc.com/about/history/
http://www.eyetap.org/about_us/hilab/index.html
http://toastytech.com/guis/

Reading Assignment for Tuesday February 10

Personal Dynamic Media, Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, pp. 391-404.

Lisa Getelman, Media as Historical Subjects, in Always Already New pgs. 1-22 (PDF at http://adriannewortzel.com/ENT3140-Materials/MediaHistorical.pdf)

Murray, Janet, excerpted from Hamlet on the Holodeck – online at http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr7/7mur.htm, parts I and II.

Forum: Response and Associations to Readings –

 

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