DATE & TIME
Thursday, October 11, 2001

6:30 p.m.

LOCATION
Xerox PARC,
Pake Auditorium,
3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA, USA


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ABSTRACT OF TALK
Smalltalk-80, the language from which Squeak is derived, traces its roots to the famous beanbag chair culture of Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Developed by a team headed by Dan Ingalls, Smalltalk was to be the supporting software environment for Alan Kay's visionary portable and networked Dynabook computer -- a concept that remains compelling today. Though the original Dynabook never came into being, Smalltalk took root and continued on. Ingalls tells the story of how the forward-looking Smalltalk concepts and capabilities have evolved into a modern environment called Squeak that could still be... the supporting software environment for the Dynabook.

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