The Aspen Summit on the development for a new software design tool: CES/SUN project – Thoughts on the ASPEN meeting, March 11-13, Comments on Process

01/04/1997

Event Document, Memorandum

4-page draft of early comments and thoughts generated during the Aspen meeting by the reactions of people to the Gatemker presentation. It includes a description of the process followed by Alexander and colleagues, which could generate a computer interface tool and the difficulties faced.

Content of

Public Event 1 Items

"The Aspen Summit" on the development for a new software design tool 01/03/1997 to 04/03/1997

Aspen, CO, U.S.A.

Conference, Professional Event

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 ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Patterns in Software 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 ...

Projects 1 Items

The Gatemaker Project 1997 to 2000

Other, Designed

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 ...

Records 1 Items

The Aspen Summit: Thoughts on the Aspen Meeting 1) One version of the memorandum 08/04/1997

Public Event, Event Document, Memorandum

Memorandum written after the meeting in Aspen, between the Center for Environmental Structure Computing and Sun Microsystems, explaining the experimental process that led to the computer program named “Gatemaker”, and summarizing what has been achieved and what not. A longer ...