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De Nederlandse programmeur Pieter Levels creëerde zonder game-ervaring in slechts 3 uur een multiplayer vluchtsimulator met behulp van AI. Binnen een dag speelden duizenden mensen het spel, en na 17 dagen verdient hij er 80.000 euro per maand mee.Dit is geen uitzondering – overal bouwen mensen zonder programmeerkennis indrukwekkende apps. Vandaag ontdekken we de AI-tools die deze ontwikkelingsrevolutie mogelijk maken, hoe jij hiervan kan profiteren, en waarom experts waarschuwen voor mogelijke controleverlies over onze creaties. Oftewel: programmeren met AI. Knowledge Navigator: https://archive.org/details/knowledge-navigator Hyperland: https://archive.org/details/HyperlandBBSDouglasAdamsAndTomBaker1990Braid Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)Als je een lezing wil over AI van Wietse of Alexander dan kan dat. Mail ons op lezing@aireport.emailOp de hoogte blijven van het laatste AI-nieuws en 2x per week tips & tools ontvangen om het meeste uit AI te halen (en bij de webinar te zijn). Abonneer je dan op onze nieuwsbrief via aireport.emailVandaag nog beginnen met AI binnen jouw bedrijf? Ga dan naar deptagency.com/aireport This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.aireport.email/subscribe

This community is a big tent. We welcome folks from all backgrounds, and all levels of experience with computers. Heck, on our last episode, we celebrated an article written by someone who is, rounding down, a lawyer! A constant question I ponder is: what's the best way to introduce someone to the world of FoC? If someone is a workaday programmer, or a non-programmer, what can we share with them to help them understand our area of interest? A personal favourite is the New Media Reader, but it's long and dense. An obvious crowd-pleaser is Inventing on Principle. Bonnie Nardi's A Small Matter of Programming deserves a place on the list, especially if the reader is already an avid programmer who doesn't yet understand the point of end-user programming. They might ask, "Why should typical computer users bother learning to program?" Well, that's the wrong question! Instead, we should start broader. Why do we use computers? What do we use them to do? What happens when they don't do what we want? Who controls what they do? Will this ever change? What change do we want? Nardi challenges us to explore these questions, and gives the reader a gentle but definitive push in a positive direction. Next time, we're… considered harmful? #### $ We have launched a Patreon! => patreon.com/futureofcoding If, with the warmth in your heart and the wind in your wallet, you so choose to support this show then please know that we are tremendously grateful. Producing this show takes a minor mountain of effort, and while the countless throngs of adoring fair-weather fans will surely arrive eventually, the small kilo-cadre of diehard listeners we've accrued so far makes each new episode a true joy to share. Through thick and thin (mostly thin since the sponsorship landscape turned barren) we're going to keep doing our darnedest to make something thought-provoking with an independent spirit. If that tickles you pink, throw some wood in our fireplace! (Yes, Ivan is writing this, how can you tell?) Also, it doesn't hurt that the 2nd bonus episode — "Inherently Spatial" — is one of the best episodes of the show yet. It defrags so hard; you'll love it. #### Init Bug report: Frog Fractions. Oh the indignity! Hey, it's The Witness in our show notes again. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is the better game, even if it spawned Only Up and other copycats that miss the point. The Looker gets the point. Getting Over It is a triumph that emerged from a genre of games that are hard to play: Octodad, QWOP, I Am Bread Braid arguably spawned the genre of high-minded & heady puzzlers that all try to say something profound through their design. Cookie Clicker and Universal Paperclips are good incremental games. Jump King and Only Up are intentionally bad. Flappy Bird was accidentally good. Surgeon Simulator and Goat Simulator are purely for the laughs. Stanley Parable, like Getting Over It, brings in the voice of the creator to (say) invite rumination on the fourth wall, which is what make them transcendent. Here's the trailer for Bennett Foddy's new game, Baby Steps. So on the one hand we have all these "bad" and """bad""" and sometimes badgames, which actually end up doing quite well in advancing the culture. On the other hand we have The Witness, The Talos Principal, Swapper, Antichamber, QUBE, and all these high-minded puzzly games, which despite their best efforts to say something through their design… kinda don't. When comparing the "interactivity" of these games, it's tempting to talk about the mechanics (or dynamics), but that formal definition feels a little too precise. We mean something looser — something closer to the colloquial meaning when "Gamers" talk about "game mechanics". Silent Football might be an example of "sports as art". Mao is a card game where explaining the rules is forbidden. #### Main The Partially Examined Life is one of Jimmy's favourite philosophy podcasts. Two essays from Scientific American's 1991 Special Issue Communications, Computers and Networks are referenced in the first chapter, one by Larry Tesler and one by Alan Kay. The other essays in this issue are also quite interesting to reflect on from our position 30 years hence. Apple's Knowledge Navigator video, and HP's 1995 video, are speculative fiction marketing about conversational agents. Rewind.ai is one of those "Computer, when did I last degauss the tachyon masticator?" tools. (Oh, Lifestreams…) S-GPT is Federico Viticci's iOS/Mac Shortcut that strings together ChatGPT and various Shortcuts features, so that you can do some nifty automation stuff via a conversational interface. It feels like similar things could be built — heck, probably already have been built — with "If-Tuh-Tuh-Tuh" or Zapier. When Ivan reaches for domain-specific terminology, LUT, Arri Alexa, and Redcome easily because, like, he wishes he had occasion to use them. To hear the story about the Secret Service busting down young Jimmy's door, listen to his episode on the Code With Jason podcast. C Is Not a Low-level Language — a fantastic article about the illusion that our source code closely matches what actually happens during execution. What Follows from Empirical Software Research? Not much, according to Jimmy in this delightful article. Jimmy likes to reference Minecraft's "redstone" which acts a bit like a programming system, so here, have a video about redstone. Ivan saw this video via Mastodon, about someone making a "real" camera in Blender, and… just… 

400 Global Telecom Carriers are Upgrading their Networks. How will creators share nextgen immersive experiences? Better Worlds Podcast hosted by Ayla Kremb, COO of Diffuse Funds Find out why Susan Brazer considers blockchain a female technology and how innovations including web3, 5G peer-to-peer networks are empowering woman, environmentalists, and scientists to share data and nextgen immersive experiences. A member of Global Women in Blockchain https://globalwomeninblockchain.org she describes blockchain as a female technology rooted in resonant values including collaboration, community, transparency, trust, decentralization, and immutability. #metaverse #5g #web3 # About the Guest Susan Brazer is currently the CEO of LionShare Media, which is launching the THIN-AIR™ 5G cloud-native platform for premium entertainment and immersive media. Susan has led the launch and operation of consumer-facing mobile, media and technology platforms, applications and services for: Apple, DirecTV, SES Astra, FIFA World Cup Venture Fund, Viacom/Showtime, Virgin Mobile, and Nokia. Previously, Susan was VP, Wireless Device Strategy and Business Development at Nokia, and VP, Corporate Development & New Products at Virgin Mobile USA. Prior to this, Susan was EVP, Corporate Development at the FIFA World Cup Venture Fund, where she raised $50M+ to develop interactive TV, gaming, and avatar training ventures. Susan was the SVP, Networks & Marketing for Viacom's Showtime Intl in the Middle East and Africa, overseeing MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel, TV Land, BloombergTV, Paramount, Style and Discovery. Susan was the VP, Marketing at Compression Labs, where led the business plan and launched DirecTV with Hughes Communications, which created the first 500 channel TV service. As VP, Digital TV Strategy at SES ASTRA, she led the migration of 22 countries with major broadcast operators--BSKYB, CanalPlus, Kinnevik, Bertelsmann, CLT and Multi-Choice. The genesis of Susan's new products and UI/UX expertise began at Apple Computer, where she launched its 1st portable computer, the Newton, and Knowledge Navigator (the prototype for the iPAD and Siri). She was an M&A analyst at PepsiCo (acquired Kentucky Fried Chicken) and an International Treasury Analyst at Phillip Morris, where she was an early adopter of the first electronic forex trading systems. Susan holds a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and attended the London School of Economics. Susan is on the Board of Global Women in Blockchain and a mentor at Princeton University's Keller School of Engineering for Innovation and Entrepreneurship." # About Better Worlds Better Worlds is a communication and community building platform comprised of weekly podcasts, engaging international conferences and hack-a-thons to encourage and support the development of Web3 solutions. Our programs celebrate voices from every continent to forge a shared and abundant future.

In this episode, Roger talks with his colleague at Samsung, Prasad Sethumadhavan. Prasad has had a career working with Microsoft Cortana, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung Bixby as well as earlier voice assistants like TellMe. Roger and Prasad discuss the state of voice, what is working and what isn't and why, and the future of voice.Roger and Prasad discuss:Prasad's backgroundTellMe - the "OG" telephone-based phone assistantB2B and B2C voice and how B2B is hot in voice nowVoice CommerceViv Labs and its next-gen voice platformWhere Bixby was and isVoice and IOT devices/SmarthomeHow a virtual version of a human assistant is the ultimate goalThe infamous Knowledge Navigator demo and how close we areChallenges with voice, discoverability, NLU needs, etcWeb, mobile, and voicePrasad's hidden gemPrasad's 2022 and 10-year predictionsKeeping in TouchPrasad on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/prasadsethumadhavanHost: Roger Kibbe(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsungwww.linkedin.com/in/rkibbeEpisodesAll Bixby Developers Chat Episodes are available on your favorite podcast player and at:bixbydev.buzzsprout.comMore about BixbySamsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopersBixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/Support the show (https://www.bixbydevelopers.com)

At a time when most people still used computers to play Oregon Trail or create basic spreadsheets, a product called the Knowledge Navigator was to be an all-in-one solution for people who used computers for professional, daily use. It was going to be a tablet the size of an opened magazine, and it would have very sophisticated artificial intelligence. And by that, the developers meant that the device would be able to anticipate the users needs. They made a mock up video that is pretty wild. One clip shows a college professor working with the device to simultaneously prepare a lecture while the computer creates useful graphics automatically. The problem was, none of this was actually possible. And the eventual product they put on shelves featured almost none of the features initially developed and also cost quite a bit of money. Various upgrades and new model releases followed, but it was a classic case of overpromising and under delivering. The Newton was the worst. Find more episodes of 'You're The Worst" at halfmiledigital.com or find us on Social Media @YTWpod.  Thanks for your support.

In Part 2 of our MacVoices Live! conversation with featured guest  Peter Cohen and the panel of Jeff Gamet, David Ginsburg, and Brittany Smith, we continue to discuss the attacks on Apple about its app store policies, and talk about what it will take for a foldable phone to become popular. One panel member even dares to speculate on exactly what is needed for that to happen. (Part 2 of 2) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Peter Cohen is a freelance tech journalist who has written for Macworld, iMore, Tom’s Guide and many other sites. You can find his dead Twitter account at @flargh and read more of his ruminations on tech and other stuff at his personal web site, peter-cohen.com. Jeff Gamet is the author of Fresh Brewed Tales, a chronicle of Jeff's strange adventures at coffee shops. You can find his regular updates on Twitter.  David Ginsburg is the President of the Suburban Chicago Apple Users Group, and is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Find and follow him on Twitter as @daveg65. You can also hear him share his knowledge on his podcast, In Touch With iOS. Brittany Smith is a cognitive neuroscientist who provides a variety of consulting services through her business, Devise and Conquer that includes ADD/ADHD coaching, technology coaching, productivity consulting, and more. She is a self-designated “well-rounded geek”, and holds a M.S. degree in Cognitive Neuroscience. She can be found on Twitter as @addliberator. Check out her latest project, a YouTube channel of tech tips. Links: Apple’s Knowledge Navigator video on YouTube Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

In Part 2 of our MacVoices Live! conversation with featured guest  Peter Cohen and the panel of Jeff Gamet, David Ginsburg, and Brittany Smith, we continue to discuss the attacks on Apple about its app store policies, and talk about what it will take for a foldable phone to become popular. One panel member even dares to speculate on exactly what is needed for that to happen. (Part 2 of 2) This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Peter Cohen is a freelance tech journalist who has written for Macworld, iMore, Tom’s Guide and many other sites. You can find his dead Twitter account at @flargh and read more of his ruminations on tech and other stuff at his personal web site, peter-cohen.com. Jeff Gamet is the author of Fresh Brewed Tales, a chronicle of Jeff's strange adventures at coffee shops. You can find his regular updates on Twitter.  David Ginsburg is the President of the Suburban Chicago Apple Users Group, and is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Find and follow him on Twitter as @daveg65. You can also hear him share his knowledge on his podcast, In Touch With iOS. Brittany Smith is a cognitive neuroscientist who provides a variety of consulting services through her business, Devise and Conquer that includes ADD/ADHD coaching, technology coaching, productivity consulting, and more. She is a self-designated “well-rounded geek”, and holds a M.S. degree in Cognitive Neuroscience. She can be found on Twitter as @addliberator. Check out her latest project, a YouTube channel of tech tips. Links: Apple’s Knowledge Navigator video on YouTube Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

In Part 2 of our MacVoices Live! conversation with featured guest  Peter Cohen and the panel of Jeff Gamet, David Ginsburg, and Brittany Smith, we continue to discuss the attacks on Apple about its app store policies, and talk about what it will take for a foldable phone to become popular. One panel member even dares to speculate on exactly what is needed for that to happen. (Part 2 of 2) [embed]http://traffic.libsyn.com/maclevelten/MV20242.mp3[/embed] This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Guests: Peter Cohen is a freelance tech journalist who has written for Macworld, iMore, Tom’s Guide and many other sites. You can find his dead Twitter account at @flargh and read more of his ruminations on tech and other stuff at his personal web site, peter-cohen.com. Jeff Gamet is the author of Fresh Brewed Tales, a chronicle of Jeff's strange adventures at coffee shops. You can find his regular updates on Twitter.  David Ginsburg is the President of the Suburban Chicago Apple Users Group, and is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Find and follow him on Twitter as @daveg65. You can also hear him share his knowledge on his podcast, In Touch With iOS. Brittany Smith is a cognitive neuroscientist who provides a variety of consulting services through her business, Devise and Conquer that includes ADD/ADHD coaching, technology coaching, productivity consulting, and more. She is a self-designated “well-rounded geek”, and holds a M.S. degree in Cognitive Neuroscience. She can be found on Twitter as @addliberator. Check out her latest project, a YouTube channel of tech tips. Links: Apple’s Knowledge Navigator video on YouTube Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Joey and Terry talk about the Knowledge Navigator, a hardware/software concept envisioned by Apple in 1987. The concept video can be found here: Apple Knowledge Navigator Video: https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Todays episode is on one of the topics I am probably the most intimate with that we'll cover: the evolution of the Apple servers and then the rapid pivot towards a much more mobility-focused offering. Early Macs in 1984 shipped with AppleTalk. These could act as a server or workstation. But after a few years, engineers realized that Apple needed a dedicated server platform. Apple has had a server product starting in 1987 that lives on to today. At Ease had some file and print sharing options. But the old AppleShare (later called AppleShare IP server was primarily used to provide network resources to the Mac from 1986 to 2000, with file sharing being the main service offered. There were basically two options. At Ease, which ran on the early Mac operating systems and A/UX, or Apple Unix. This brought paged memory management and could run on the Macintosh II through the Centris Macs. Apple Unix shipped from 1988 to 1995 and had been based on System V. It was a solidly performing TCP/IP machine and introduced the world of POSIX. Apple Unix could emulate Mac apps and once you were under the hood, you could do pretty much anything you might do in another Unix environment. Apple also took a stab at early server hardware in the form of the Apple Network Server, which was announced in 1995 when Apple Unix went away, for the Quadra 950 and a PowerPC server sold from 1996 to 1997, although the name was used all the way until 2003. While these things were much more powerful and came with modern hardware, they didn't run the Mac OS but ran another Unix type of operating system, AIX, which had begun life at about the same time as Apple Unix and was another System V variant, but had much more work done and given financial issues at Apple and the Taligent relationship between Apple and IBM to build a successor to Mac OS and OS/2, it made sense to work together on the project. Meanwhile, At Ease continued to evolve and Apple eventually shipped a new offering in the form of AppleShare IP, which worked up until 9.2.2. In an era before, as an example, you needed to require SMTP authentication, AppleShare IP was easily used for everything from file sharing services to mail services. An older Quadra made for a great mail server so your company could stop paying an ISP for some weird email address like that AOL address you got in college, and get your own domain in 1999! And if you needed more, you could easily slap some third party software on the hosts, like if you actually wanted SMTP authentication so your server didn't get used to route this weird thing called spam, you could install Communigator or later Communigate Pro. Keep in mind that many of the engineers from NeXT after Steve Jobs left Apple had remained friends with engineers from Apple. Some still actually work at Apple. Serving services was a central need for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP systems. The UNIX underpinnings made it possible to compile a number of open source software packages and the first web server was hosted by Tim Berners Lee on a NeXTcube. During the transition over to Apple, AppleShare IP and services from NeXT were made to look and feel similarly and turned into Rhapsody from around 1999 and then Mac OS X Server from around 2000. The first few releases of Mac OS X Server, represented a learning curve for many classic Apple admins, and in fact caused a generational shift in who administered the systems. John Welch wrote books in 2000 and 2002 that helped administrators get up to speed. The Xserve was released in 2002 and the Xserve RAID was released in 2003. It took time, but a community began to form around these products. The Xserve would go from a G3 to a G4. The late Michael Bartosh compiled a seminal work in “Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration” for O'Reilly Media in 2005. I released my first book called The Mac Tiger Server Black Book in 2006. The server was enjoying a huge upswing in use. Schoun Regan and Kevin White wrote a Visual QuickStart for Panther Server. Schoun wrote one for Tiger Server. The platform was growing. People were interested. Small businesses, schools, universities, art departments in bigger companies. The Xserve would go from a G4 to an Intel processor and we would get cluster nodes to offload processing power from more expensive servers. Up until this point, Apple never publicly acknowledged that businesses or enterprises used their device so the rise of the Xserve advertising was the first time we saw that acknowledgement. Apple continued to improve the product with new services up until 2009 with Mac OS X Server 10.6. At this point, Apple included most services necessary for running a standard IT department for small and medium sized business in the product, including web (in the form of Apache), mail, groupware, DHCP, DNS, directory services, file sharing, and even web and wiki services. There were also edge case services such as Podcast Producer for automating video and content workflows, Xsan, a clustered file system, and in 2009 even purchased a company called Artbox, whose product was rebranded as Final Cut Server. Apple now had multiple awesome, stable products. Dozens of books and websites were helping built a community and growing knowledge of the platform. But that was a turning point. Around that same time Apple had been working towards the iPad, released in 2010 (although arguably the Knowledge Navigator was the first iteration, conceptualized in 1987). The skyrocketing sales of the iPhone led to some tough decisions. Apple no longer needed to control the whole ecosystem with their server product and instead began transitioning as many teams as possible to work on higher profit margin areas, reducing focus on areas that took attention away from valuable software developers who were trying to solve problems many other vendors had already solved better. In 2009 the Xserve RAID was discontinued and the Xserve went away the following year. By then, the Xserve RAID was lagging and for the use cases it served, there were other vendors whose sole focus was storage - and who Apple actively helped point customers towards. Namely the Promise array for Xsan. A few things that were happening around the same time. Apple could have bought Sun for less than 10% of their CASH reserves in 2010 but instead allowed Oracle to buy the tech giant. Instead, Apple released the iPad. Solid move. They also released the Mac Mini server, which while it lacked rack and stack options like an ipmi interface to remotely reboot the server and dual power supplies, was actually more powerful. The next few years saw services slowly pealed off the server. Today, the Mac OS X Server product has been migrated to just an app on the App Store. Today, macOS Server is meant to run Profile Manager and be run as a metadata controller for Xsan, Apple's clustered file system. Products that used to compete with the platform are now embraced by most in the community. For the most part, this is because Apple let Microsoft or Linux-based systems own the market for providing features that are often unique to each enterprise and not about delighting end users. Today building server products that try to do everything for everyone seems like a distant memory for many at Apple. But there is still a keen eye towards making the lives of the humans that use Apple devices better, as has been the case since Steve Jobs mainstreamed the GUI and Apple made the great user experience advocate Larry Tesler their Chief Scientist. How services make a better experience for end users can be seen by the Caching service built into macOS (moved there from macOS Server) and how some products, such as Apple Remote Desktop, are still very much alive and kicking. But the focus on profile management and the desire to open up everything Profile Manager can do to third party developers who serve often niche markets or look more to scalability is certainly front and center. I think this story of the Apple Server offering is really much more about Apple branching into awesome areas that they needed to be at various points in time. Then having a constant focus on iterating to a better, newer offering. Growing with the market. Helping the market get to where they needed them to be. Serving the market and then when the needs of the market can be better served elsewhere, pulling back so other vendors could serve the market. Not looking to grow a billion dollar business unit in servers - but instead looking to provide them just until they didn't need to. In many ways Apple paved the way for billion dollar businesses to host services. And the SaaS ecosystem is as vibrant for the Apple platform as ever. My perspective on this has changed a lot over the years. As someone who wrote a lot of books about the topic I might have been harsh at times. But that's one great reason not to be judgmental. You don't always know the full picture and it's super-easy to miss big strategies like that when you're in the middle of it. So thank you to Apple for putting user experience into servers as with everything you do. And thank you listeners for tuning into this episode of the History of Computing Podcast. We're certainly lucky to have you and hope you join us next time!

Episode 83 - Jill Fain Lehman, Ph.D. on Developing Language Interactions Show Notes This week, Carla Diana and Tom Guarriello speak with Dr. Jill Fain Lehman about her work on language and machines at Carnegie-Mellon University and as a consultant at Disney. Jill's LinkedIn Page Jill's work with Disney Using technology for language-based interactions with children Creating interactions that are fun for kids We need a "theory of fun" Creating systems for children on autism spectrum Scott McCloud's facial representation abstraction spectrum Scott McCloud's excellent book, Understanding Comics Interacting with Alexa, Jibo and other "intelligent agents" Mathblasters and other early "edutainment" systems The "behavioral uncanny valley" of stereotypical activities What makes an interaction a "conversation"? Dr. Paul Pangaro RoboPsych Podcast interview Apple's 1987 "Knowledge Navigator" interactive agent video Jill's thoughts about near-term developments in human-machine interaction Teaser for Jill's next RoboPsych Podcast appearance! The RoboPsych Podcast has been voted one of the Top 5 Robotics Podcasts by Feedspot readers. Thanks for listening to the RoboPsych Podcast. Please subscribe and review! Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe on Overcast RoboPsych.com  

Vi firar GDPR-veckan med stadigt intrillande mejl från en strid ström av oväntade håll och en hel hög ämnen: Senaste nytt om bendgate VM-GULD!!!!! (ja jag vet att jag är en nörd. / J) GDPR: bra tillfälle att gå igenom alla gamla konton man glömt att man hade Bitcoin-mining drar lika mycket ström som hela Österrike i slutet på detta år Schibstedt (Aftonbladet, SvD, mfl) pausar annonser från Google Libreboot - öppenkällkodsbios för PC-datorer. Men varför? Roligt med copyright-meddelande på projektets hemsida Amiga-acceleratorn - har den kommit? JA! Den fungerar utmärkt! Hur stora diskar kan man sätta i en äldre Amiga? Vintagedatorerforumet börjar ta fart Modelljärnvägens hus Jimmy Svenssons mejlade - Raspberryalternativ med upp till 4 GB RAM Cool, obsolete and unknown tech - Jimmys spellista Det oerhört coola “Bulgariens UFO” Nu kan man ladda ner sina personuppgifter från Apple Googles interna video - den själviska luntan - klassisk Jurassic park (kändes suggestiv, ungefär som Apples flummiga konceptfilm för The Knowledge Navigator) Kommentar på hela eget bibliotek kontra streaming-diskussionen: allt jag vill lyssna på finns inte på Spotify, men streaming har fått mig att lyssna på mer (och till och med lite mer varierad) musik oftare. Eller så är jag bara inne i ett musikskov Finns det bra sätt att dela foton med andra, och låta dem lägga till sina egna? Som går snabbt att sätta upp och använda? (som inte gräver och tar dina metadata och använder för läskiga syften?) Bonusmaterial: Fredrik har sett Solo: a star wars story. Spoilervarning från 1:12:05 Länkar Jockes text om att bli svartlistad Bendgate GDPR Bitcoin-mining drar lika mycket ström som hela Österrike i slutet på detta år Svenska medier tar Googlepaus Libreboot GPL Macbook 1,1 och 2,1 Zorro II Guru meditation www.vintagedatorer.se Kaffelunden Solidtango Modelljärnvägens hus Airmail Rock64 Raspberry Pi-kluster på 40 noder Illers bild Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these Cool, obsolete and unknown tech - Jimmys spellista E.T. Buzludzhamonumentet - “Bulgariens UFO” Ladda ner all data Apple har om dig UFO-huset i Örebro - de heter tydligen Futuro Googles “selfish ledger” Duplex - Googles AI som ringer telefonsamtal åt en Apples knowledge navigator-video Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should Against all odds Jockes 80-tals-lista Owncloud HEIF Solo: a star wars story - behöver Han Solo en backstory? Tarkin Thumb wars - bästa Star wars-parodin någonsin? Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-125-gdpar.html.

The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: A look at some of the technologies behind the chatbot boom.In this episode of the O’Reilly Bots Podcast, Pete Skomoroch and I speak with Andy Mauro, co-founder and CEO of Automat, a startup whose tools make it easy to build AI-powered bots. (Disclosure: Automat is a portfolio company of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, a VC firm affiliated with O’Reilly Media.) Mauro will be speaking at O’Reilly Bot Day on October 19, 2016, in San Francisco.“Anyone looking to get into this space should be looking at the emerging new platforms,” advises Mauro. “Pick the right channel, pick the vertical problem, and pick a platform that fits your strategic goals.” We discuss various bot platforms, including those developed by Facebook, Slack, and Microsoft, and Andy’s “sleeper pick,” Kik. Other discussion points: The development of conversational interfaces over the last 15 years The importance of language understanding “AI should be invisible to the end user,” says Mauro Why big companies are now talking about their bot and messaging strategies Other links: Apple’s 1987 “Knowledge Navigator” concept video KLM’s messenger bot for passengers

The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: A look at some of the technologies behind the chatbot boom.In this episode of the O’Reilly Bots Podcast, Pete Skomoroch and I speak with Andy Mauro, co-founder and CEO of Automat, a startup whose tools make it easy to build AI-powered bots. (Disclosure: Automat is a portfolio company of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, a VC firm affiliated with O’Reilly Media.) Mauro will be speaking at O’Reilly Bot Day on October 19, 2016, in San Francisco.“Anyone looking to get into this space should be looking at the emerging new platforms,” advises Mauro. “Pick the right channel, pick the vertical problem, and pick a platform that fits your strategic goals.” We discuss various bot platforms, including those developed by Facebook, Slack, and Microsoft, and Andy’s “sleeper pick,” Kik. Other discussion points: The development of conversational interfaces over the last 15 years The importance of language understanding “AI should be invisible to the end user,” says Mauro Why big companies are now talking about their bot and messaging strategies Other links: Apple’s 1987 “Knowledge Navigator” concept video KLM’s messenger bot for passengers

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Bot hype, bot UX, and bots in the workplace.This week on the Radar Podcast, we're featuring the first episode of the newly launched O'Reilly Bots Podcast, which you can find on Stitcher, iTunes, SoundCloud and RSS. O'Reilly's Jon Bruner is joined by Pete Skomoroch, the co-founder and CEO of Skipflag, to talk about bots—about what's driving the sudden interest, what we can expect from the technology, and some interesting emerging applications.Here are some highlights: The uncanny bot valley I've seen a lot of hype waves over the years in tech, but this one is growing pretty rapidly. That exact story I've heard from a few people, where CIOs from big companies are actually saying, 'All right, what's our bot strategy? I want to stop, I want to retask some people to dig into this.' There's been a lot of things like that in the past, where it could feel misguided because, 'Wait, it's too early—we don't even know what this is yet.' At the same time, there's usually something behind these things. Another recent analogy was Minority Report, right? If you go back to 2002 when that movie came out, the boardrooms were echoing with, 'I want an interface like that! I want to talk to a computer with my hands and wave them around.' Now, maybe a little bit of what we're seeing is like the movie Her, which came out in 2013. ... It's kind of eerily close to where we are, it feels like, but there is that uncanny valley between what you see in the movie and where the AI tech is right now. I think that's why it feels a little bit like hype—most people don't grasp the difference. 1,000 bots versus one god bot Benedict Evans at Andreessen Horowitz has been writing a bunch on both the rise of messaging over the last four or five years, and now he's talking a lot more about conversational commerce and UX and bots. I really liked one quote he had, which was, 'What can I ask if I can't ask anything?' This is a different kind of discovery, right? Before, we were talking about discovery of apps, discovery of bots or products. There is a deeper problem, which is, when I'm in a conversation with a new bot, if the interface for every bot is kind of the same, it's some text interface, it's unclear exactly who I'm talking to and what they know and what they don't know and what I can ask. If it has some knowledge inside the bot's memory, it's unclear what it knows and what it doesn't know. That's where I think Amazon Alexa—they're walking a line, but I think part of the reason it's clicking with some consumers better than previous attempts at these things is, my understanding is, they spent thousands and thousands of hours with actual voice actors in a room asking it a lot of different questions, and then, kind of brute force training it to respond well and be resilient to these kinds of requests. Now, that's not a realistic solution for most other bots, and I think part of the solution here is going to be either better UX in these messenger platforms, so that you could have a more clear sense of the options and of the menus, if you are texting. Then another thing is being very clear about what the bot is good for and what it isn't. This is more like 1,000 bots versus one god bot. Overcoming the brittleness issues of the semantic web If you go back to the semantic web days, the vision was that you'd have this machine-understandable interface so that machines could talk to machines, and all these queries, like booking a flight, would magically happen. The vision that everybody really wanted was—Apple had this vision of the Knowledge Navigator. We're actually, I think, not that far off from that demo these days, but it's kind of a walled garden demo, where you could build that for that specific case, but to enable almost any generic application, what you really need is a fuzzy way for APIs to talk to APIs with some reasoning and intelligence. I don't know if this bot wave is going to stick or if your bot strategy is going to really matter at the end of the day, but I'm actually optimistic that machine learning is going to keep cranking away. Text is here to stay; it's a nice way to talk to people in public without everybody talking over each other. What is interesting is we're training machines now to talk via text. Now, what happens when you have a machine talk to another machine via text? Do we get over some of those brittleness issues that killed things like the semantic web? Bots at work I'm pretty bullish on the idea of AI in the workplace. That's why I'm pretty excited about the Slack platform. They were one of the early movers. Once they called the apps that you could build on Slack 'bots,' I think that's really where you saw a step function in the number of bots, because by definition, if you're building an app on Slack, it's a bot. Now, Facebook has followed suit, and everything there is a bot as well. I think you're going to see this split between e-commerce applications, and then in the workplace, I'm sure a lot of the big workplace players will have some form of bot platform or bot interaction.

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Bot hype, bot UX, and bots in the workplace.This week on the Radar Podcast, we're featuring the first episode of the newly launched O'Reilly Bots Podcast, which you can find on Stitcher, iTunes, SoundCloud and RSS. O'Reilly's Jon Bruner is joined by Pete Skomoroch, the co-founder and CEO of Skipflag, to talk about bots—about what's driving the sudden interest, what we can expect from the technology, and some interesting emerging applications.Here are some highlights: The uncanny bot valley I've seen a lot of hype waves over the years in tech, but this one is growing pretty rapidly. That exact story I've heard from a few people, where CIOs from big companies are actually saying, 'All right, what's our bot strategy? I want to stop, I want to retask some people to dig into this.' There's been a lot of things like that in the past, where it could feel misguided because, 'Wait, it's too early—we don't even know what this is yet.' At the same time, there's usually something behind these things. Another recent analogy was Minority Report, right? If you go back to 2002 when that movie came out, the boardrooms were echoing with, 'I want an interface like that! I want to talk to a computer with my hands and wave them around.' Now, maybe a little bit of what we're seeing is like the movie Her, which came out in 2013. ... It's kind of eerily close to where we are, it feels like, but there is that uncanny valley between what you see in the movie and where the AI tech is right now. I think that's why it feels a little bit like hype—most people don't grasp the difference. 1,000 bots versus one god bot Benedict Evans at Andreessen Horowitz has been writing a bunch on both the rise of messaging over the last four or five years, and now he's talking a lot more about conversational commerce and UX and bots. I really liked one quote he had, which was, 'What can I ask if I can't ask anything?' This is a different kind of discovery, right? Before, we were talking about discovery of apps, discovery of bots or products. There is a deeper problem, which is, when I'm in a conversation with a new bot, if the interface for every bot is kind of the same, it's some text interface, it's unclear exactly who I'm talking to and what they know and what they don't know and what I can ask. If it has some knowledge inside the bot's memory, it's unclear what it knows and what it doesn't know. That's where I think Amazon Alexa—they're walking a line, but I think part of the reason it's clicking with some consumers better than previous attempts at these things is, my understanding is, they spent thousands and thousands of hours with actual voice actors in a room asking it a lot of different questions, and then, kind of brute force training it to respond well and be resilient to these kinds of requests. Now, that's not a realistic solution for most other bots, and I think part of the solution here is going to be either better UX in these messenger platforms, so that you could have a more clear sense of the options and of the menus, if you are texting. Then another thing is being very clear about what the bot is good for and what it isn't. This is more like 1,000 bots versus one god bot. Overcoming the brittleness issues of the semantic web If you go back to the semantic web days, the vision was that you'd have this machine-understandable interface so that machines could talk to machines, and all these queries, like booking a flight, would magically happen. The vision that everybody really wanted was—Apple had this vision of the Knowledge Navigator. We're actually, I think, not that far off from that demo these days, but it's kind of a walled garden demo, where you could build that for that specific case, but to enable almost any generic application, what you really need is a fuzzy way for APIs to talk to APIs with some reasoning and intelligence. I don't know if this bot wave is going to stick or if your bot strategy is going to really matter at the end of the day, but I'm actually optimistic that machine learning is going to keep cranking away. Text is here to stay; it's a nice way to talk to people in public without everybody talking over each other. What is interesting is we're training machines now to talk via text. Now, what happens when you have a machine talk to another machine via text? Do we get over some of those brittleness issues that killed things like the semantic web? Bots at work I'm pretty bullish on the idea of AI in the workplace. That's why I'm pretty excited about the Slack platform. They were one of the early movers. Once they called the apps that you could build on Slack 'bots,' I think that's really where you saw a step function in the number of bots, because by definition, if you're building an app on Slack, it's a bot. Now, Facebook has followed suit, and everything there is a bot as well. I think you're going to see this split between e-commerce applications, and then in the workplace, I'm sure a lot of the big workplace players will have some form of bot platform or bot interaction.

This week: Apple makes a curious investment in China’s version of Uber; iPhones that charge wirelessly in your pocket; Siri is coming to a Mac near you; more weird and wacky stories from the Cult of Mac; and we tell you what we like (and what we don’t) about the gadgets we’re currently testing in an all-new Under Review.   This episode supported by   Freshbooks, the easy-to-use invoicing software designed to help small business owners get organized, save time invoicing and get paid faster.  And I can vouch for this from experience, it also makes tax time a cinch.  Get started with a free trial at Freshbooks.com/cultcast, and please enter “CultCast” in the “How did you hear about us?” section!   TunnelBear, the simple privacy app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open internet. Visit GetTunnelBear.com to get your free TunnelBear today.   We also want to give Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com a  thanks for the great music you hear on today's show.   On the show this week @erfon / @bst3r / @lkahney   Intro: Your future computer, The Knowledge Navigator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bjve67p33E   Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese Uber rival http://www.cultofmac.com/428251/apple-invests-1-billion-in-chinese-uber-rival/ Apple has invested $1 billion in Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing Tim Cook says the deal “reflects our excitement about their growing business … and also our continued confidence in the long term in China’s economy.” Cook told Reuters: “We are making the investment for a number of strategic reasons, including a chance to learn more about certain segments of the China market,”  Jack Kent of tech analytical firm IHS Technology said partnering with Chinese companies is a common way for international companies to get into the massive Asian market.   Apple’s new hires point to iPhone wireless charging http://www.cultofmac.com/428817/apples-new-hires-point-to-iphone-wireless-charging/ In the last four months Apple has hired two former uBeam engineers with expertise in wireless charging and ultrasonic technology The Verge did some investigating, and discovered that in fact the in the last two years Apple has hired more than a dozen staffers with expertise in wireless charging. Earlier this year Bloomberg reported that Apple was hoping to add wireless charging to the new iPhone it releases in 2017. According to Bloomberg's sources, Apple wants to implement a much more advanced technology that would allow you to walk around a room and have your phone charging the entire time. Is the smart dock a stop gap?   Siri for Mac icons leak ahead of WWDC http://www.cultofmac.com/428990/siri-for-mac-icons-leak-ahead-of-wwdc/ Apple’s digital assistant Siri is expected to finally arrive on Macs later this year with the next OS X update Cool icon in dock, plus accessible via the menu bar and Hey Siri option   Buster’s reviewing the Garmin Phoenix 3 http://amzn.to/1WG1xKB   Leander’s been listening to the Moshi Avanti on-ear headphones http://www.moshi.com/audio-headphones-avanti   Erfon’s lighting his house with the illumi smart bulbs http://amzn.to/1U3QQet     The three Apples that changed the world, featuring Jimmy Page and Fiona Apple

James and John discuss eBay Finds: wooden MessagePad, Apple mousepad, and Apple seat cushions.  James and John talk about Knowledge Navigator, and news includes an iPhone funeral, Newton iPhone case, and Raskin desktop software. To see all of the show notes and join our website, visit us at RetroMacCast.

James and John discuss eBay Finds: Lisa 2, original Macintosh, and Knowledge Navigator video. They rate Antennagate in the history of Apple PR disasters, and news includes rumors of new Macs. Other related links from this episode: Join our website See our photos on Flickr