Viewpoint Toward a Computer for Visual Thinkers (1988)

I was having trouble with the PDF link, here&#x27;s an Internet Archive copy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20191014194206&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottkim.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com&#x2F;viewpoint&#x2F;viewpoint-dissertation.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20191014194206&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottk...</a><p>The video is very good at getting the point across, though (naturally).<p>Also of some interest to this audience might be Raeder&#x27;s 1984 dissertation, which shows a combination of visual programming, functional programming, and programming by demonstration. A big part of his model is naming things as rarely as possible: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;RaederProgrammingInPictures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;RaederProgrammingInPictures</a>

Fascinating. I admit I only read the intro section but bookmarked for later. The page &quot;on being interdisciplinary&quot; with a kind of taxonomy of interdisciplinary work is really interesting.<p>I wonder what the author would have to say about the possibilities of &quot;Spatial Computing&quot; with AR that seems to be the next big buzz? It seems like spatial computing is all about manipulating data in a highly visual format.

Well, that&#x27;s time I&#x27;m not getting back.<p>edit: to be more specific, this is very bare. add &quot;visual&quot; representations for the concepts that ultimately need to be expressed--verbs, prepositions, etc--then we&#x27;re back to linguistics, but with ad-hoc pictographs.