Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A few days ago, I attended a meeting to inform volunteers at the Computer History Museum of their plans for an interactive software exhibit. This will involve extending the present building, and will get under way as soon as they have raised the $6 million that it will cost. Anyway, in this picture, Kirsten Taschev, the Vice President of Collections and Exhibits, and Mark Weber, the somewhat colorful curator of Internet History, are addressing us. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000188.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000188.jpg.html> In the room was a device that is under continual development> It attracted a crowd of volunteers. A couple are wearing the blazing red uniform shirt, a color I deplore. Until this year, our uniform shirts were a comfortable blue. I have not played with this device for over a year, at which time it was a bit more primitive. It is supposed to give the uninitiated a notion of logical alternatives, and, I think, (maybe) loops. Physically, one is making a frog jump from lily pad to lily pad, trying to reach an objective and, if I possibly remember correctly, avoid an enemy/ http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000177-2.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000177-2.jpg.html> Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.