Julian Lombardi will present a demonstration of Croquet technologies entitled "Enabling Social Dimensions of Learning Through Persistent and Extensible Online Virtual Environments" at the Wisconsin Library Services annual conference being held in Madison on July 27th and 28th. WiLSWorld tends to attract primarily academic librarians from Wisconsin. Wisconsin Library Services is a consortium of Wisconsin libraries with over 500 member libraries.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Alan Kay Wins 'Nobel Prize' of Computing
Alan Kay, a principal architect of the Croquet Project, has been awarded the 2003 Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Alan will receive the "Nobel Prize of Computing" in a ceremony in June, as well as a cash award, for his pioneering work on Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic object-oriented programming (OOP) language. Smalltalk is credited as the model for C++ and Java.
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