The Aspen Summit on the development for a new software design tool: Elements of a Business Plan for “PATTERNS, LLC” (Version 1.0)

A meeting between the Center for Environmental Structure Computing, represented by Christopher Alexander, Greg Brian and John Seamster, and Sun Microsystems represented by its co-founder Bill Joy and Mike Clary. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the development ...

Christopher Alexander had developed a long and diverse relationship to the use of computers in design since the 1960s. It culminated with the interest the computer software community showed to the idea of pattern and pattern languages and how the ...

The Gatemaker project provides an enlightening lens through which to examine the interplay of ideas between Christopher Alexander and computing, over the last half-century. Interest in his work became intense by 1996, so his team secured funding for a research ...

2-page outline draft of agenda for the three-day Aspen conference; it covers topics to be presented about Gatemaker and its future developement and financing.

5-page rough draft defining three major areas which set the structure of the presentation during the Aspen conference. Outline summary of Christopher Alexander’s design principles as defined in his books is used to back the research and development of an ...

4-page partial draft-plan focused on product features like, what to expect using the application, examples of areas of application and possibilities offered by the application; with note announcing more aspects to follow.