The Last Days Of Kaleida Labs Several pieces of core technology for scriptx, the multimedia programming languagewe ve been building, were in sad shape a year ago when we made our first http://www.gamecabinet.com/editorials/KaleidaLabs.html
Extractions: The long and the short of it is that Kaleida Labs, the place where I hang my hat when I'm working, has been closed by its owners, Apple and IBM. There was little (for the executive staff) or no (for the rest of us) warning that this would take place so it has come as a bit of a shock. To be sure, there were other times over the course of our three year project that I thought we would be shut down and I wouldn't have been very surprised. Several pieces of core technology for ScriptX, the multimedia programming language we've been building, were in sad shape a year ago when we made our first release. We made it pretty clear it would take a year to get these in order and the owners signed on to the project at that time. Now here we sit with a much improved, ready for prime time ScriptX. We have some adoring customers chomping at the bit to ship products using ScriptX. After three years of hard work its all coming together. And they shut us down. I could speculate on reasons why but I may well be sued if I do (as they mostly involve the rather precarious financial and technological positions our parent companies find themselves in - particularly the fruity one). I can give you one interesting quote from our CEO as printed in the Wall Street Journal. He was asked for his opinion on joint ventures between large corporations (such as Kaleida and our sibling, Taligent). "Companies should have a counseling session with me if they're thinking of doing one. I couldn't charge enough hours to say you're stupid if you try one."
Apple Should Sell AMT To Someone Else As soon Apple realized the failure of scriptx they lost interest in created theirown very simple lightweight multimedia framework, elegant programming language http://www.sky4studios.com/amt/opinion/welcome.html
Extractions: by Marc Van Olmen Apple is the biggest problem for the success of AMT: In the past Apple didn't showed much interest in AMT: All the AMT customers were pleased by the upgrade from version 1.2 to version 2.0. One of the enhancements was the new AML compiler + AML interpreter: it generates code that is at least 50% smaller. For most of the titles it meant that their title suddenly used 2MB less memory. For the users of AMT PE the development time became suddenly 3 times faster, etc. As you can see pretty big enhancements. You have to know that this technology was already working for over a year before Apple brought it to the market. If your company depends on the success of a product, if you care even a little bit about your customers or if you want to gain market share you would bring these kind of enhancements as fast possible on the market. Distribution: wow this was a sour point for many years, first they tried it through APDA. APDA is the distribution channel for Apple Developers software. It was after 2 years that they realized that designers, scriptwriters, story board writers,... the main audience for AMT wasn't reading those APDA catalogs. Now they moved it over to Claris, certainly this was an improvement. In the beginning they had some trouble, because here in Belgium it took about 5 months before version 2.0 of AMT was available. Thanks to a local AMT evangelist at Apple, who met the Claris people, things were getting better and in the summer of 96 you could see AMT in every major catalog in Belgium. Still Claris has a lot to learn: figure out how to sell an authoring tool and bring newer version quicker to the market. We are currently waiting already 3 months for the new AMT (v 2.1.1). The Golden Master of this product was finished in the first week of December.
Résumé Quicktime, graphics and general programming for Sophie s World (C; Mac/Win). Investigationof next generation authoring systems scriptx, SK8 and Apple Dylan. http://www.elegantchaos.com/people/resume.html
Extractions: colleagues Name: Sam Deane Phone: (available on request) Email: sam@elegantchaos.com Date of birth: 12th November, 1969 Qualifications: Computer Science BSc (1st Class Hons), Bristol University. Present Day, Freelance Programmer and Shareware Author. Clients include Feral Interactive FilmFour / Channel 4 Abbey Road Studios Real World ... Multimedia Corporation , Bristol University, Apple UK. Recent work includes porting games from Windows to the Mac (Theme Park World, Championship Manager), and a Windows/Mac screensaver for FilmFour.
CURRICULUM VITAE - Sam Deane Personal Details Skills Experience = Over 20 years of programming experience;over 15 for the record Languages C, C++, Java, Dylan, scriptx, SK8, mTropolis http://www.elegantchaos.com/people/cv.txt
Richard Jones' Garbage Collection Bibliography In International Conference on Logic programming, pages 1832, 1997. Available here. InformationProcessing Letters, 23(1)33-37, 1986. scriptx Kaleida Labs. http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gcbib/gcbibK.html
Extractions: This bibliography may be freely used for non-commercial purposes. It may also be freely distributed provided that this notice is included. I would be most grateful to receive additions, corrections and URLs of electronically available papers. The full bibliography is also available in compressed BibTeX (140k) and PostScript (142k) forms. Further GC-related material can be found on the Garbage Collection page Richard Jones Last updated 21 May 2004. [A] [B] [C] [D] ... [Z] M. Frans Kaashoek, Andrew Tanenbaum, S. Hummel, and Henri E. Bal. An efficient reliable broadcast protocol Operating Systems Review , 23(4):5-19, October 1989. Nikos Kaburlasos. Hardware support for garbage collection in the C programming language . Master's thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1992. Ted Kaehler and Glenn Krasner. LOOM - large object-oriented memory for Smalltalk-80 systems . In Krasner [Smalltalk-BHWA] , pages 251-271. Ted Kaehler. Virtual memory for an object-oriented language Byte , 6(8):378-387, August 1981. Ted Kaehler.
Sheng Liang S Research Summary Modern programming languages offer a high degree of expressiveness, conciseness Indeed,Tcl, Python, scriptx, ML, Haskell, Telescript, Java and ActiveVRML have http://www.cs.yale.edu/users/liang-sheng/research-summary.html
Extractions: Modern programming languages offer a high degree of expressiveness, conciseness, flexibility, reliability, and safety. These characteristics make them suitable for today's increasingly complex software systems. Indeed, Tcl Python ScriptX ML ... Java and ActiveVRML have all found use in a variety of application domains. Therefore, there is a practical need for designing, implementing, and deploying such languages. There are, however, major obstacles in unleashing the full potential of modern programming languages. First, it is hard to properly design, cleanly specify, and fully understand every single feature in a complex language. Second, modern languages do not correspond to the physical machine as closely as, for example, C, and therefore require more work to implement efficiently. Third, implementations of modern languages often lack good programming environment (e.g., debugging and profiling) support. Finally, different languages use different calling conventions, run-time data representations and memory management mechanisms, and are therefore hard to interoperate. My thesis work, a compiler construction method for modern programming languages, addresses all of the above problems. The key technical contributions are as follows:
Date Fri, 23 Dec 1994 122542 -0800 From Digital Media Kaleida s scriptx It s late but ahead of its time Inside the Current Issue a completereport on the Time Warner network, technology and programming, see the http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/DMP/941223.dmp
Check Printing Template MeadCo s scriptx Printing programming Manual MeadCo Ltd is a software developmentcompany based in Cambridge UK, specializing in ActiveX controls and Web http://www.printers-uk.org/7/check-printing-template.html
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Kit Enables Educators To Teach Multimedia scriptx is one of the first 54 objectoriented programming languages created expresslyfor interactive multimedia, allowing users to write applications for the http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A929.cfm
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CyberNautical Almanach Functional programming Applications; OPAL Project. HyperText and HyperMedia WWWActivity at Kaleida Labs scriptx. Music the Alf Midi Site; MIDI Home Page; MIDI http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~dduchier/cyber.html
Extractions: Agents Algorithm Animation Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning at UCI Artificial Life Bibliographies ACM SIGGRAPH HCI computer networking, queueing theory, signal processing Books Constraint Satisfaction Computer Supported Cooperative Work CSCW Courses Online DSS T26: Data Structures Programming Languages undergraduate Hardware Verification graduate EOS: Educational Online Sources Functional Programming: dvi ps , and a note CP3080:045 Advanced Programming Languages Gofer Lecture Notes by H. Conrad Cunningham
Inc.com | Michael Braun gate pitfall is that the investing companies define the product vision in ourcase, coming up with scriptx, a multimedia programming language but not http://www.inc.com/magazine/19960801/1766.html
Extractions: Skip to the content of this page Advanced options showLogin('', '/magazine/19960801/1766.html'); The CEO of now-dead Kaleida Labs, the Apple-IBM joint venture, on what went wrong. From: Inc. Magazine, Aug 1996 By: Tom Ehrenfeld The CEO of now-dead Kaleida Labs, the Apple-IBM joint venture, on what went wrong Q. Kaleida opened with great fanfare in 1992, only to close its doors this year not long before Taligent, another joint venture of IBM and Apple, went belly-up as well. What's going on here? A. Not what people think. The problem wasn't that Apple or IBM had stupid or bad people; they have excellent people. The joint-venture model itself was the problem. It's a business structure that simply can't work if your goal is to create something new. In hindsight, the Kaleida and Taligent failures and others like them were inevitable.
SIMA Reports scriptx is a relatively new objectoriented language designed to create multimediacourseware an authoring package in that it is a true programming language and http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ITS/CAL/multimedia/19.html
Extractions: This report by Sue Cunningham provides an overview of ScriptX, from Kaleida Labs. ScriptX is a relatively new object-oriented language designed to create multimedia courseware. It differs from an authoring package in that it is a true programming language and thus produces the flexibility that authoring packages lack. It does provide specific features for creating multimedia applications and cross-platform capabilities. There are versions of ScriptX for both Apple Mac and IBM PC-compatible. The system consists of three main parts : the Kaleida Media Player, the ScriptX Language Kit and the application and development authoring tools. Hania Allen (H.Allen@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Jan 99 Viewpoint HyperCard introduced programming for the rest of us. Ironically, while Apple hasspent millions on sinceabandoned efforts like Dylan and scriptx, their most http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.15/15.01/Jan99Viewpoint/
Extractions: Column Tag: Viewpoint by Richard Gaskin As Mac OS development tools continue to evolve, there is one important category which is often overlooked in the Mac community: rapid application development (RAD). The availability of robust RAD tools for Windows, most notably Visual Basic, is arguably one of the primary contributors to the plethora of new applications written for the Wintel platform, and absolutely critical to the entrenchment of Wintel in corporate and academic environments where custom applications need to be cranked out regularly. RAD tools represent a critical component of Mac evangelism as well, allowing opportunities for organizations to create custom solutions which fill market niches and keep folks using Macs. Apple has been proudly citing the number of new applications for Mac OS since the announcement of the iMac, but it seems a fair bet that this number would at least double if the company took a more active role in popularizing RAD tools for Mac OS. http://www.scriptics.com/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html
Adequacy User ScriptX Adequacy user scriptx authored no stories, no diaries, and 2 comments. Commentsby scriptx. Date. Apr 29, 2002. Dumbass, Enough already! Ban programming. http://www.adequacy.org/public/users/2441/
TidBITS: All The World's A Stagecast Such advanced but still nascent technologies as the Dylan programming language,OpenDoc, and scriptx were aborted before seeing the full light of day. http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05437
JIME: Introduction To This Special Issue From The East/West Group: it was proving difficult to produce multimedia titles using Kaleida s scriptx thathad Sun s Java was being rapidly adopted by the programming community as a http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/98/10/spohrer-98-10-paper.html
Extractions: sbs@acm.org Abstract: This special issue brings together perspectives from universities and publishers working on new media learning technologies. We begin by describing the way these organizations came to work together, before introducing the articles in this special issue. We then proceed to highlight the important issues that are emerging from their individual and collective efforts within the Group, and most recently from the author-reviewer debate in this issue. We now invite you to build on these discussions with your own contributions. Keywords: educational multimedia, authoring tools, Educational Object Economy Commentaries: All JIME articles are published with links to a commentaries area , which includes part of the article's original review debate. Readers are invited to make use of this resource, and to add their own commentaries. The authors, reviewers, and anyone else who has '
Extractions: Skip to content Kim Anderson, Nine Price: $50.00 Technology excels at hype. We all get caught up in it, but every time I have been dazzled by technology hype it has failed to deliver on the promise. In the early 1990s, Kaleida Labs, a division of Apple Computers, introduced an early adopter and developers scheme in the United States for a technology called ScriptX, which would revolutionize multimedia authoring. ScriptX was a multiplatform authoring environment based on object-oriented programming, that would finally solve the issue of dual authoring for the Apple MacIntosh and Windows CD ROM market. Apple spent millions of dollars with broadcasters and publishers to develop programs/products in ScriptX. But when times turned tough for Apple, Kaleida Labs was an early casualty and funding of ScriptX ceased. We believe that an open platform should speak to as wide as possible an audience. And, that it should apply not only to television but also to pay TV, the Internet, to mobile phones, and in fact to anything that speaks to future convergence of services. We need to build a single platform for a market the size of Australia and given the cost of the technology. It would be disastrous commercially for the industry if we ended up with a situation similar to that in the UK, where the BBC have to deal with up to five platforms, authoring programs and applications three or four times to different broadcasting streams. But if you look at what is happening to BSkyB, and the development of XML and WML browsers in places like the UK and Finland, we can see that we will eventually get to a single open platform, regardless of what route we all take.
Paul Haahr's Resume an AppleIBM joint venture, was developing a multimedia scripting platform, scriptx. Servedas a teaching assistant for CS217 (programming Systems) and CS320 http://www.webcom.com/haahr/resume.html
Extractions: Note to recruiters : I'm working on what I consider the world's most interesting problems at the leading company in the field. Please do not contact me about other jobs. Note to other engineers : If you're curious about joining us, read about jobs at Google Employment History G o o g ... , Inc. , Mountain View, CA March, 2002 - present Senior software engineer, search quality group. Independent consultant May, 2001 - February, 2002 Worked under contract as a software engineer to Agile Storage, Inc. (now ONStor , though named ClariStor, Inc. for a while), a storage networking startup, helping design and implement a file system. Assisted the principals of SteelMachines, a Foundation Capital -incubated venture, in their investigations of Java-related businesses. Xigo, Inc. , San Francisco, CA February, 2000 - May, 2001 Manager of agent technology and senior software engineer. Xigo was an internet software company developing agent-based tools for investors; it could not raise funds to continue operations. I lead development of the company's agent technology framework and, as the company grew, hired and managed a team of five engineers working on the agent system, alert generation, and backtesting. I initiated and oversaw projects creating a real-time intraday technical alert server and the Xigo Bot Language (XBL), an XML dialect for describing technical alerts.
New Tools For Multimedia Development ScriptX Copyright CAUSE 1994 which to learn the ins and outs of object oriented concepts and programming. Thepresentation at CAUSE94 will include demonstrations of live scriptx code and http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/text/CNC9433.txt
Resume (publishing) Microsoft s 80386/486 programming Guide, Microsoft Press, 1991 (The 80386 Book,1988). Java, XML, C, scriptx, C++, PERL, SQL, Assembler (80x86/68K), Smalltalk http://www.gorgonzola.org/ross/resume.html
Extractions: Ross Nelson 996-3 Alpine Terrace Sunnyvale, CA 94086 ross@gorgonzola.org Objective To join an innovative software engineering team, bringing exciting products to market. Work experience 11/02 - present Consultant IBM, Almaden Research Lab Helped design and implement a Java-language interface to a large-scale data-mining system. Investigated third-party libraries for OLAP and data visualization for a front-end to the system. Designed and implemented a presentation application for analysis of the mined data. Software Architect Stagecast Software Co-founded a software start-up, bringing a new visual programming system to market. Served on the Board of Directors, contributing to business planning discussions. Assisted in designing, scheduling, implementation, and performance analysis of many components, such as the simulation engine, variable database, persistant storage, and client/server communications. Helped ensure that product worked on multiple Java platforms (Macintosh, Windows, Linux, and Solaris). Led the design for the second release and the server-side implementation. Applied for patents on innovative design aspects of our technology. Authorized development spending, analyzed and selected tools, and contributed to the hiring process. Stagecast Creator is an award-winning simulation design tool for the education market featuring programming by demonstration.
