Leadership
Ben Cooper, Donna Schrokosch, Alex Roston
Ben Cooper
Ben Cooper has been working in great depth with squeak since 2005. He
has been using it to develop a front-end to an EDA system that will
produce a next-generation digital hardware. He is also been using this
programming technology to produce a robotics code that is accessable
by young people. He strongly believes that a new paradigm in computers
is required and one of the major steps towards this is to move away
from 'modern' operating systems (i.e. Windows, Mac's OSX and Unix) and
towards a self-contained dynamic computing environment based on pure
OOP. And he believes the best choice to do this is smalltalk/squeak.
He realizes that this latter goal is very long-term, and some may say,
'blue-sky'. But to achieve long-term goals, he also recognizes that
you must start by taking the first, and often smaller steps. This is
where the next-generation web technology comes in. Using squeak's
morphic technology as to replacement for HTML will allow this
incredible computing system to be much more widerly adopted. Through
this expanded user base, the resources needed to take the next steps
towards the grander goal will be available to make them possible.
Alex Roston
Alex Roston a fellow at the Hawthorne Center, teaching Graphics and Operating System Concepts. He is also the owner of Clover Computing. He is a systems administrator and programmer who previously created a Linux based computer kiosk system for hotels and coffee houses, including an authentication client and server for his kiosks. Alex is responsible for one of the project's central ideas - that if the client knows how big a window it is operating in, the client can reshape content to the window. He will function as the group's system administrator and webmaster, and he will also write documentation and specifications.
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