Pictures of the recent Alice team excursion to JavaOne, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA, June 2 – 5, 2009. Here Alice received the Duke’s Choice Award, which celebrate …extreme innovation in the world of Java technology… Winners are selected by James Gosling and the Java technology leadership team.
On the ap-computerscience listserv, there has recently been a discussion thread discussing the relative merits of Alice and Scratch
Alice’s story begins back in the early 90s at the University of Virginia. Randy Pausch, then an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at UVa, started a user interface research group. The Alice system was built to support rapid prototyping of virtual environments. Simulation was performed on a Sun SPARCstation 5 which [...]