Index
Adage Graphics Terminal
Adventure
Alto
Amazon
America Online (AOL)
Andrew Project
Apple, Inc.
hardware
in marketplace
software
WIMP paradigm
Workscape and
Application layer protocols
Architecture. See also Information architecture; Modular architecture
as communities of practice
definition
empowering users
examples
generative processes
as model
as predictive
as style
Atkinson, Bill
Bandwidth
Barcodes
Barnes & Noble
Beautiful complexity
definition
generativity
hierarchical composition
modularity
redundancy
Bel Geddes, Norman
Berners-Lee, Tim
Bishop, David
Brunelleschi, Filippo
Building Codes
Burroughs
BusinessWeek
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie Mellon University
“Cathedral and the Bazaar, The” (Raymond)
Chomsky, Noam
Circavie
Civium
Clark, Arthur C.
Client-server networking
browse versus serve
cloud computing as
examples of
peer-to-peer FUD
web services as
Cloud computing
as client-server
innovations in
Internet as real cloud
peer-to-peer networking as
as proprietary
risks of
CNN
COBOL
Colossal Cave
Command Post of the Future (CPOF)
Communication. See also Connectivity
direct, between vehicles
limited bandwidth
in realms
Communities of practice
Architecture and
for new learning
for software development
Complexity. See also Beautiful complexity; Natural complexity
complexity design
computerization as cliff of
as exponential
as free
hierarchical composition
messages
recursive decomposition
shifting
Simon, Herb
simplification
taming
without flakiness
CompuServe
Connectivity. See also Fungible devices
discovering peers
as expressive technology
fungible devices
as the future
intermittent connectivity
in nature
peer-to-peer versus client-server
sensor data reuse
Containerization
of data
examples
unique identities
Context
context awareness
context dependency
device context
dynamic context
information context
physical context
of sailing ships
user context
Convergence
Conway, John Horton
Cronkite, Walter
Crowther, Will
The Crystal Palace
Culture
computer technology and
geek
of innovation
object form mirroring
Cyberspace
distances
Information Commons
as place
today’s status
tomorrow’s view
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
Data. See also Information
containerization of
control and ownership
ephemeral
monetizing
provenance
public information space for
sensor data reuse
visualization
Data General
Data liquidity
Internet as
liquidity definition
paper books as
peer-to-peer for
today’s status
tomorrow’s view
Datamation
Data objects
Data storage. See also Cloud computing; Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking
DNA
file systems
hard drives
memory chips
network storage
storage cooperatives
today’s status
tomorrow’s view
yesterday’s path
da Vinci, Leonardo
Decentralization
clouds as proprietary
free market standards
libraries as
Loewy applied
peer-to-peer as
in plants
security everywhere
tomorrow’s view
DECWorld ‘87
Deep Architecture
Dertouzos, Michael
Design. See also Human-centered design
constraint and restraint
context dependency
definition
design science (see Design science)
as discipline
history
information design
interdisciplinary (see Interdisciplinary design)
metadesign
simulations during
surface design
Victorian
Designers
in Bible
fine artists
industrial design founders
as style source
use of term
Design science
and Architecture
for complex problems
Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science
methodology
Desktop
browser image drag and drop
direct manipulation
Workscape
Devices. See also Fungible devices
device context
information vs.
as life forms
persistent data
tomorrow’s view
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Digital objects
Direct manipulation
Disruptive technologies
Distances
Diversity
DNA
Document-centric interaction
Drag and drop
Drawing, as common language
Dreyfuss, Henry
Dryden, Richard
Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
Dynamic context
Dyson, George
Eames, Charles
Eaton Corporation
Edison, Thomas
Ellison, Larry
Encryption
Exponential growth
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
Feature creep
Ficlets
Fictionwise
File transfer protocol (FTP)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fleming, Ian
FORTRAN
Fortune magazine
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Fungible devices
diversity and
fungibility definition
as simplification
today’s status
tomorrow’s view
Future proofing
Gage, Phineas
Game of Life
Gates, Bill
Geek culture
Generativity
Geographic information systems (GIS)
Geographic location
Colossal Cave
in Information Commons
manifolds
MAYA neighborhoods
physical context
proximity and device context
Getty Research Institute
Gibson, William
GNU OS See also Open source
Goldilocks Principle
Goldman, William
Google cloud computing
projects
van Rossum at
and web randomness
Graphical user interface (GUI)
Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations
GRIS (Grand Repository in the Sky)
Hamel, Gary
Hard drives
Hardison, O. B.
Hierarchical composition
Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell
Hometown (AOL)
HTML-5
Human-centered design. See also Interaction
human factors data
hypothesis stage of design
industrial design as
systematic
users in computing contexts
WIMP paradigm as
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Human literacy
HyperCard
Hypertext
IBM
IBM 1401 minicomputer
Ideal-X
Identity
atomic level
DUNS numbers
geographic locations
as obstacle
standards for
universally unique identifiers (UUIDs)
Images
Industrial design
Information. See also Data
control and ownership
devices vs.
ephemeral
people intersecting with
Shannon defining
strategic information
symmetry and
vapor of
visualization
Information architecture
definition
DNA as
Information Commons and
information context
information design
key qualities of
Information-centric
Information Commons
Information context
Information design
Information ecology
components of ecology
decentralization in
empowering users
information-centric web
interoperability in
peer-to-peer networking as
privacy
resiliency
simulating
trust
Information objects
discovery of peers
DNA as
information architecture and
for information-centric cyberspace
relationships among
tomorrow’s view
unique identities
Infrastructure absent
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Input devices
Intellectual property theft
Interaction, physics of
Interdisciplinary design
difficulties of
discipline boundaries
drawing as common language
need for
neighborhoods
violent agreements
Interface, and modularity
Internet. See also World Wide Web
browse versus serve
convergence
cyberspace as term
encryption on
engineering of
hypertext
Information Commons and
intermittent connectivity
as liquid information
modular architecture
as peer-to-peer
of plants
protocols
as public information space
tomorrow’s view
viruses
Interoperability. See also Connectivity; Fungible devices; Standards
cloud computing
in information ecology
tomorrow’s view
iPhone
ISO-9000
Jobs, Steve
Kay, Alan
Krishnarao Prahalad, Coimbatore
Language
drawing as common
generative grammar
realms as common
Law of Conservation of Complexity
Lawver, Kevin
Layered semantics
Legos
Lepper, Bob
Lessig, Lawrence
Lincoln, Abraham
Linux OS
Liquidity, of data. See Data liquidity
Loewy, Raymond
The Lord of the Rings
Lucas, Bill
Macintosh computers
Mainframes
Mammoth Cave National Park
Manifolds (mathematical)
Martin, Roger
Martin, William H.
Mashups
Material objects
MAYA Design
acronym meaning
awards earned
interdisciplinary teams
origins of
patents granted
McNealey, Scott
Melville, Herman
Memory chips
Mendeleev, Dmitri
Mesh networking
Messages
realms of devices
semantic stack
unique identities
vague
Microprocessors
Microsoft
Microtransactions
Middle Earth
Minicomputers
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Moby-Dick
Models
Modems
Modular architecture
of fungible devices
hierarchical composition
information-centric manipulation
of Internet
modularity
as simplification
watchmakers tale
Monetizing
Moore, Gordon
Moore’s Law
Morris, Jim
Mossberg, Walt
Mycorrhizal networks
National Computer Code
Natural complexity. See also Complexity
chemistry
DNA
hierarchy
organic architecture
peer-to-peer networking
plant Internet
recursive decomposition
resiliency
unique identities
Naval architecture
Neighborhoods, in MAYA Design
Nelson, Ted
Network effects
Networking. See Connectivity
Network storage See also Cloud computing
Nonrecurring engineering expense (NRE)
Objects
data objects
digital objects
information objects (see Information objects)
material objects
unique identities
Olsen, Ken
Open source
cathedrals and bazaars
in consumer products
gravity as
as innovation source
Operating system (OS)
Opposable Mind-Meld
Oracle
Orwell, George
OSX OS
Outsourcing IT skills
Packets
Palm Pilot
PARC
Pauli, Wolfgang
Pauli’s Exclusion Principle
Paxton, Joseph
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking
definition
FUD fight
as future
hard drive prices
as information space
intellectual property theft
Internet as
libraries as
monetizing
as natural redundancy
Palm Pilot
service discovery
Penn State
Permalinks
Personal computers (PC)
Apple Macintosh
data storage
history of
post-PC era
Xerox Alto/Star
Personal digital assistant (PDA)
Personal Universal Controller (PUC)
Pervasive computing
definition
as economical
as technological revolution
Physical context
Plants, the Internet of
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Platforms
applications vs. information
as term
today’s status
tomorrow’s view
user interface as
yesterday’s path
Pointers
Post-PC era
Predictive frameworks
Prime
Printing press
Privacy
Prodigy
Protocols
Prototyping
Provenance
Public information space
as information-centric
Information Commons
Internet as
peer-to-peer as
Publishers, for trustworthy data
Pulos, Arthur
Punched cards
Python
Queen Elizabeth II
Raymond, Eric Steven
RCA
Realms
Recursive decomposition
Redundancy
Relationships
among information objects
as design definition
designers and engineers
in online communities
symbiotic
Resiliency
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Rossum, Guido
Rotman School of Business
Roth, Steve
SABRE system
Sagan, Carl
Sailing
Scripting
Second Life
Security
client-server networking
cloud computing
devices
encryption
National Computer Code
peer-to-peer networking
privacy
from simplicity
tomorrow’s view
trust
viruses
walled garden approach
Self-healing
Semantic layering
Semantic stack
Semantic Web
Senn, Jeff
Servers. See Client-server networking; Cloud computing
Service discovery
Shannon, Claude
Simon, Herb
Simplification See also Complexity
Simpson, O. J.
Simulations during design
Society of Ethical Culture
Software
apps downloaded
browser as meta-application
as devices
as information
information-centric vs.
superstition about
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software engineering. See also Open source
community of practice
geek culture
unmodeled effects
visual development
SpaceWar
Spreadsheets
Standards
containerization
fungible devices
for information-centric web
microprocessor families
modularity
open source
WIMP paradigm
Star Trek
Sterling, Bruce
Stochastic processes
Storage. See Data storage
Storage cooperatives
Strategic information
Style, and Architecture
Superstition
Surface design
Systems architecture
Take-aways
Taming complexity
T-commerce
Teague, Walter Dorwin
Tear-off parts
Technological determinism
Technological revolutions
Technology
abdication of design
classic versus expressive
disruptive
introducing new
Telephone design See also iPhone
Tesler, Larry
Thin clients
Timesharing systems
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Topographic distances
Topological distances
Transactions
Transducers
Transgenesis
Transistors
Trillion-node network, definition
Trimtab
Trust
TVs
Twain, Mark
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ubiquitous computing, definition
UNIVAC
Universally-Unique Identifiers (UUIDs)
Unix OS
Unmodeled effects
URLs
Architecture film
book web site
broken links
Civium
definition
Game of Life
information-centric data manipulation
information film
as pointers
Shepard Tones
Usability
U.S. Board on Geographic Names
User interface (UI)
desktop (see Desktop)
human factors data
information architecture and
input devices
interaction physics vs.
limited bandwidth
Personal Universal Controller
as platform
tear-off parts
WIMP paradigm
Users
in computing contexts
empowering
van Rossum, Guido
VCRs
Via Repository
Violent agreements
Viruses
Visage
VisiCalc
Visualization
Visual programming
Walled garden approach
Wall Street Journal
Watchmakers tale
Web browsers
Web services
Web sites, as ephemeral See also URLs
Weizenbaum, Joseph
Whole Earth Catalog
Wikipedia
WIMP paradigm
Windows OS
Workscape
World Wide Web. See also Internet; URLs
clouds as proprietary
distances on
engineering of
links
as peer-to-peer network
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Xanadu
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
culture of
GUI
Morris, Jim
WIMP paradigm
Workscape review
Xerox Star
X-Files
Yahoo!
Zero infrastructure
Zune
Zynga