MIT CSAIL Professor Hal Abelson emphasizes the importance of free software for securing our agency in our digital worlds. His project, App Inventor, enables anyone to create apps without coding. He also discusses free software freedoms, the book 'Blown to Bits', and the importance of privacy and data provenance in today's digital age.
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Acknowledgments. We gratefully acknowledge the
efforts of all those members of the Boxer Groups at
MIT and Berkeley who have helped to make Boxer
(almost) a reality. Special thanks to Michael
Eisenberg, Gregor Kiczales, Leigh Klotz, Ed Lay,
and Jeremy Roschelle.
1. Abelson. H.. and disessa, A.A. Turtle Geomelry: The Computer as a
Medium for Exploring Mathematics. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.,
1981.
2. Bolt, R.A. Spatial data-management. Rep., Dept. of Architecture.
MIT. Cambridge. Mass.. 1979.
3. diSessa. A.A. A principled design for an integrated computational
environment. Hum.-Compui. Interaction I, 1 (1985). l-47.
4. disessa. A.A. Notes on the future of programming: Breaking the
utility barrier. In User-Centered Systems Design, D. Norman and
S. Draper. Eds. Lawrence Erlbaum. Hillsdale, N.J., 1986.
5. Goldberg. A.. and Robson. D. Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementafion. Addison-Wesley. Reading. Mass., 1983.
6. Papert, S. Mindstorms:
Acknowledgments. We gratefully acknowledge the
efforts of all those members of the Boxer Groups at
MIT and Berkeley who have helped to make Boxer
(almost) a reality. Special thanks to Michael
Eisenberg, Gregor Kiczales, Leigh Klotz, Ed Lay,
and Jeremy Roschelle.
