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In Search of Tomorrow

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

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  • Presented by Chris Granger, Co-Founder and CEO of Kodowa
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Chris Granger discusses the evolution of programming tools and demonstrates Eve, an experimental language designed to make computing accessible to everyone.

BIDS Data Science Lecture Series | December 11, 2015 | - p.m. | 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley Speaker: Chris Granger, Co-Founder and CEO, Kodowa Sponsors: Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Data, Society and Inference Seminar If you were asked to imagine what computation will look like in 10 years, what would you say? Perhaps something to do with large-scale data analysis in R or functional programming. Maybe you imagine the rise of some of the more interesting nascent languages of today. That's where we started, but through an odd journey over the past several years, we've ended up somewhere entirely different in the pursuit of an alternative form of programming. Through dozens of prototypes, constant testing with real people, and a willingness to throw it all away, we've learned a great deal about what it would mean to turn the computer back into a tool for thought—not just for you or me, but for all of us.

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What people say. Highly recommended for its visionary ideas on human-computer interaction and its demonstration of a semantic, wiki-like programming environment.

kybernetikoson Hacker News • Recommends

On “Eve: Programming designed for humans”

I absolutely loved the semantic wiki stuff that was shown towards the end of the "In search of tomorrow" video. This seems fairly different to that system. Is there a write up/talk about why you changed? Is there anything like that semantic wiki thing available for me to use? link to this video

vivekganion Lobsters • Recommends

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dangooron Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases”

Chris Granger's latest experiments with Eve (github.com/witheve) look surprisingly like a semi-structured personal knowledge system. Take a look at the last 15 minutes or so of this video for a demo: link to this video (the whole video is interesting for the evolution of it)

lewisl9029on Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases”

I just came across this a few days ago on HN: link to this video link Eve, the new "programming" tool developed by Chris Granger of Light Table fame, looks absolutely amazing for this use case. I personally can't wait to try it out.

gibleton Hacker News • Recommends

On “Why does programming suck?”

A talk by Chris Granger in Dec 2015 trying to answer "What does programming look like in 10 years?" was interesting. < link to this video A recent iteration < link to this video looks wiki-like.

cmauryon Hacker News • Recommends

On “My Journey From Blindness to Building a Fully Conversational User Interface”

There are a lot of professional developers who are blind. They use accessible IDEs paired with a Screen reader. Here is a good description: link In the future, I think there is a lot of potential for pairing a Conversational UI and a natural language programming...language. Eve looks really promising, and could change the way that everyone writes software, and not just the blind: link Here is a demo: link to this video

michaelwwwon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Stencila – Spreadsheet-like live reactive programming environment”

This article reminded me of an interesting video by Chris Granger, co-author of the Light Table code editor, titled "In Search of Tomorrow: What does programming look like in 10 years?" He's designing a visual/code block hybrid editor. link to this video

lewisl9029on Hacker News • Recommends

On “HARC”

Eve 1 is one project I know of that has been trying to tackle this very difficult problem. The project is led by Chris Granger, whom you might know from his work on the Light Table IDE 2. They released a video last year that showcased some iterations of their prototypes and I found them to be very innovative and promising: link to this video 1 link 2 link

rafaelferreiraon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Eve: Programming designed for humans”

Seeing Eve's development out in the open is inspiring. Many of the commenters are coming from positions of extreme skepticism towards new approaches to programming, probably justified by the history of the field, but I'd recommend to spend some more time looking into the research idbknox and his team have been conducting (see link to this video , for instance) and how much they have iterated based on user experimentation. A few questions come to mind now: 1 - This new demo, with the messaging app sample, and references to "my pm wants this or that" seems to point a change in positioning, from targeting non-programmers to professional programmers. Is this accurate? 2 - Is there a plan to integrate the g…

anotheryouon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Esoteric programming paradigms”

Will Eve ever take off? I like the thoughts behind it. link to this video very good talk about the background of eve. When he finally talks about eve you might want to switch to a more recent talk about it.

seltzered_on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?”

…face development: greg wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True - link steve wittens - making webgl dance - the title is deceptive, it's in some ways a visual crash course in linear algebra - link glenn vanderburg - software engineering doesn't work - link chris granger - in search of tomorrow - link to this video alan kay - tribute to ted nelson at intertwingled fest - link bret victor - this is already mentioned but if I had to pick one it'd be 'the humane representation of thought' - link #Hardwarish: saul griffith - soft, not solid: beyond traditional hardware engineering - link deb chachra - Architectural Biology and Biological Architectur…

scotty79on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: Fieldbook: Lightweight Database with a Spreadsheet UI and a REST API”

Are you familiar with recent work of Chris Granger? Apparently so far he thinks that data structure you have in your app is most approachable for non-programmers: link to this video

eeckson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?”

> * Eve by Kodowa: link to this video This guy seems kinda young. Does anyone think that the future of programming can come from people without extensive programming experience of current programming?

jamiion Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2016)”

Location: London Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Résumé/CV: link Email: jamie@scattered-thoughts.net I was previously at Eve, designing languages, databases and query compilers aimed at end-user programming (demoed in link to this video ). Before that I spent several years consulting, bringing basic CS and performance knowledge to companies who need it. I don't have strong opinions on what I want to do next except that I would like to branch out into another field, either by learning on the job or by studying part-time. I'm particularly interested in cognitive science and group collaboration. link link link

cmontellaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Against the Current: What We Learned from Eve”

That's a good suggestion. I'll do a little makeshift one here :) Blog posts are mostly here: link and a couple here: link Talks: link link link link to this video link Prototypes are collected here: link I'll try to make this nicer and put it on our homepage.