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The Aspen Summit: Thoughts on the Aspen Meeting
1) One version of the 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 version has also been found.
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Moore House: Discussion notes from phone conversations
11/04/1997
Memorandum addressed to Sun Microsystems’ co-founder Bill Joy, who had provided funds for the experimental project “Gatemaker”. Christopher Alexander refers to the implications such a tool could have for computing and design .
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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
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 ...