Wednesday 4th - Friday 6th October - BBC

I have just spent 1 hour updating this blogg, tried to spell check it and lost the lot, I think I will stick to bad spelling in the future.

We worked on our digital story's Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and 4 were presented on Friday afternoon. These were-

1. Vannevar Bush - An American who developed a link between scientists, the government and the military during the second world war. This led to a lot of technological advances being developed for the military. These have subsequently filtered down into the public domain (eg the internet).He also designed a machine called the MEMEX, which allowed a user to store links between documents.
   
2. Ted Nelson - coined the term hypertext, thinks that bereners lee's web is a gross simplification of his hyper text idea.


3. Douglas Englebart - Performed the "mother of all demos" in 1968. demostrated the first mouse and user interface so a user could interact with a computer. The screen was 20ft high and 1000 people turned up.


4. Alan Kay - American computer scientist who pioneered the graphical user interface and object orientated programming. Currently working on clockwork laptops for the third world.

Our Visit to BBC interactive was very interesting this week. We were given presentations from a variety of people from the department including project managers, developers and designers. It was a very friendly environment and people obviously enjoyed working there. I hope to go back in a couple of months when im a bit more settled.