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Even though we started in the days when the equipment itself wasn't able to do very exciting visual things, we were always concentrating on this matter of communication and meaning.
Retrospectives : The Early Years in Computer Graphics at at MIT, Lincoln Lab and Harvard (1989)
I introduced what I called "outside-in problem solving," which nowadays is called "top-clown." But I prefer outside-in because outside-in allows you to have many different viewpoints instead of a single top that you stupidly try to get to the bottom of, and things of that sort. Object oriented programming came out of that.
Retrospectives : The Early Years in Computer Graphics at at MIT, Lincoln Lab and Harvard (1989)
The APT and CAD Projects had one Air Force sponsorship, but it was actually a combination of about five or six projects, all going in parallel on both hardware and software matters, and I couldn't keep track of things, so I would take Polaroid pictures of the blackboard and then say what we had talked about into my dictating machine and my secretary would type it up.
Retrospectives : The Early Years in Computer Graphics at at MIT, Lincoln Lab and Harvard (1989)