#jef raskin

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pictures recovered from an archived version of the digibarn website as the page they are on no longer exists

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Un día como hoy (2 de diciembre) en la computación

El 2 de diciembre de 1979, Jef Raskin coordina una visita guiada de Steve Jobs a la planta de Xerox PARC para mostrarle sus ideas para el desarrollo del sistema operativo que a futuro funcionaría como MacOS. Raskin se convirtió en el creador y arquitecto original del Macintosh #retrocomputingmx #jefraskin #apple #Macintosh

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The novelty of ChatGPT and DALL-E isn’t that they’re intelligent - they’re not - it’s that they seem to allow us to give instructions to a computer program using human language, using human communication constructs like contextual references, idioms, memory of past conversations, and so on.

The question isn’t whether AI will replace [insert job here], what we should be thinking about is the birth of a new kind of software interface that makes it easier for an absolute beginner to talk to a computer and get it to do things, in a more freeform manner, without the boundaries of specific software applications or complex expert-user interfaces.

Decades ago, scientists at IBM and MIT’s Media Lab were thinking about stuff like this - the “Put That There” spoken / gestural interface, or the use of directional mics to let the computer tell when it was being addressed directly, etc.

When Jef Raskin, the father of the Macintosh, left Apple, his vision of a “humane interface” took form in the Canon Cat, a unique “work processor” that used a unique systemwide search tool to ‘leap’ to desired text, removing UI layers from the experience; your hands never leave the keys, preserving your state of flow.

We’ve already got pretty good gesture tracking and facial recognition built into our phones (based on the same technology as the XBox Kinect). If the rumors are true, Apple’s going to release augmented reality glasses this year.

Imagine a combination of domain-specific AI, sensors and AR that makes it easy to do mechanical design that would normally require complicated CAD software.

“Ok, start with a Stratocaster guitar body. Let’s remove these pickups (points) and put a humbucker here (points). Ok, let’s move the bridge back two inches. Switch it for a hardtail bridge. No - the Hipshot 11° angled one. Recess it by 1.5mm. Ok, let’s keep the hardware mounting pilot holes, but put the hardware aside for now. Let’s reshape the body a bit - let’s give the top and back an arch like an Ibanez SR bass… and let’s round the edges more…more…ok, let’s make the horns a little pointier? Good. (spins hands) Give me a top-down view. Let’s skew the curves a little, not too much. Ok, let’s save that.”

When you think about it, most of the Holodeck on Star Trek has to be half interpreting verbal descriptions like DALL-E, half running like a game engine like Unity. Imagine what the authoring tools must be like?

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Apple's Lisa personal computer turns 40

Forty years ago today, on January 19, 1983, a new type of personal computer was announced that would change the world forever: The Apple Lisa. Steve Jobs posing with the Lisa in 1983. (Photo: Ted Thai) Jeremy Reimer for Ars Technica: Lisa was named after Steve Jobs’ daughter, even though Jobs denied the connection and (in initially) his parentage. But the more interesting thing about the Lisa…

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We make technology because it takes the parts of us that are most human and it extends them. That’s what a paintbrush is. That’s what a cello is. That’s what language is. These are technologies that extend some part of us. Technology is not about making us superhuman. It’s about making us extra-human.

Jef Raskin

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Happy 70th birthday, Woz!

Happy 70th birthday, Woz!

Today is the day to wish Woz a very happy 70th birthday!

Stephen Gary “Woz” Wozniak was born 70 years ago today, on August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California.

Woz co-founded Apple Computer, Inc., which is now named Apple Inc., with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne.

Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s and received the National Medal of Technology in 1985, along with Steve…

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An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Jef Raskin, one of the designers of the Macintosh graphical user interface (GUI)

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Does anyone own or take an interest in the Canon Cat? I don’t see much about it around on here, so I’m curious, especially considering it’s the brainchild of Jef Raskin (for anyone who doesn’t know, he conceived the Macintosh project, which was ultimately way more expensive than he’d planned, and the Canon Cat was closer to his vision for the Macintosh, if my memory serves.)