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A theoretical history of programming
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Of mice and turtles
Of mice and turtles
Papert and Engelbart and transitional objects
Scott Richmond
Mar 31, 2019
Javascript is not Scheme
Javascript is not Scheme
Nor is it Logo. Logo also isn’t Scheme.
Scott Richmond
May 2, 2018
SCMS Talk: Logo, microworlds, and the utopia of the screen
SCMS Talk: Logo, microworlds, and the utopia of the screen
A similarly-titled talk with a fairly different, more theoretically articulated agenda. Delivered at the annual meeting of the Society for…
Scott Richmond
Apr 17, 2018
Of Babbage and Turing
Materialism, Idealism, Computation; or Procedural Epistemology
Scott Richmond
Jan 24, 2018
Microworlds & screen utopias
Microworlds & screen utopias
This is the text of a talk I delivered to the Toronto Film and Media Seminar on January 19, 2018. You may wish to read the introduction to…
Scott Richmond
Jan 21, 2018
What is it like to be a turtle?
What is it like to be a turtle?
(This title is a reference to Thomas Nagel’s famous philosophical essay, “What is it like to be a bat?” Also: This is still a fairly…
Scott Richmond
Dec 3, 2017
Colophon & credits
At current, Thinking with Computers is funded entirely by my startup funds at the University of Toronto.
Scott Richmond
Nov 28, 2017
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