I was reading Michael Nielsen's blog earlier and found an interesting link to Eugene Wallingford's blog. In one entry, Wallingford describes an inspiring talk by computer scientist visionary Alan Kay. The thrust of Kay's talk was that computer science as a field was falling into a lull and forgetting about how to be creative and innovative. What I found especially interesting was Ivan Sutherland's PhD thesis. Apparently, in one very intense year, Sutherland created the first user interface for graphics, object oriented programming, etc. Hopefully, I'll have a chance to read the thesis sometime.
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