The Aspen Summit on the development for a new software design tool: Comments on proposal

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 ...

15-page overview of a buisness plan for the company “Patterns, LLC”; it addresses in an outline form the following issues: Vision and Mission, Company Plan, Product Plan, Market/User Analysis, Marketing and Distribution Plan, Financial Plan and Supportive Documents.

6-page minutes of telephone discussions with advisor Jim Complien and consultant Richard Gabriel who expressed their thoughts and concerns on some key members of consortium regarding their specific interests, roles and objectives.