Projects Page

This page replaces the one at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial/projects.html. I am still interested in many of those projects, but I don't get that page updated often. This page is where I'll put things I know that I need done, and soon, and I'd love to get student involvement with them.

What's CSL about?

The Collaborative Software Lab (home of the Georgia Tech Squeakers, http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl) has as its goal the creation of Collaborative Dynabooks. The Dynabook is what personal computers were designed for: The creation, storage, and playback of personal dynamic media to support learning and thought by anyone, from children to expert programmers. The Dynabook was the vision of Alan Kay which drove the creation of Smalltalk-80 and the desktop user interface by Alan, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, and others at Xerox PARC in the 1970's.

We often use the programming language Squeak (http://www.squeak.org) which is the focus of the current research to create the Dynabook. Squeak is an open source effort, whose base is ViewPoints Research which Alan Kay directs, with involvement still from Kim Rose, Dan Ingalls, Ted
Kaehler, John Maloney, Scott Wallace, and Andreas Raab further develop Squeak towards the Dynabook vision.

The goal of the Georgia Tech Squeakers is to realize Dynabooks as a collaborative medium, where groups of people can compose together, easily share one another's media, and can critique and review media.

PROJECT IDEAS

What's the impact of CS1315 and CS1371?

Here at Georgia Tech, we teach gobs of non-CS majors how to program. What does that matter? Does it help them in anyway? Does it change how students think about computers? How they use computers? How they think about computer science?

We've done one email survey, a year after CS1315 first started, to ask those questions, but we got few responses. I'd like to do another survey of both 1315 and 1371 students

University of Texas at El Paso use of Media Computation

University of Texas at El Paso is considering use of the Media Computation materials in two classes in Spring 2006. This is a much different audience than Georgia Tech: Predominantly Hispanic, Southwest, not-Engineering-focussed campus, etc. We'd like to do some evaluation of how it goes, perhaps a trip out to interview students. Any interest?

Last modified 15 September 2005 at 1:31 pm by Mark Guzdial