Pioneers – Tools & Craft – Notion

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from the people and teams creating it.

Pioneers

— Conversations with the minds that shaped computing.

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Michael Nielsen on visualizations, biological systems, and making a new science

Michael Nielsen is a quantum physicist, science writer, computer programming researcher, and modern polymath working on tools to expand human capacity to think and create. He’s previously authored pioneering quantum computing books, propelled forward the open science movement, and published research on artificial intelligence.

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Andy Matuschak on physically-informed digital interface design

Andy is a software engineer, designer, and researcher working on technologies that expand what people can think and do. In past lives he helped build iOS at Apple and led R&D at Khan Academy. Now as an independent researcher, his methods bridge the gap between academia and Silicon Valley.

Devon Zuegel

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Char Stiles explores tools for expression and experience

Char Stiles is an artist, educator and programmer whose work uses emerging technologies like live coding to bring to light how computers work.

Devon Zuegel

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Suzanne Ciani explains the composition of her sensory career

Suzanne Ciani is a five-time Grammy award-nominated musician, composer, sound designer, and record label executive whose work helped define the sound of electronic music in the 1970s.

Devon Zuegel

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Loretta Staples' journey through digital and cultural interfaces

Loretta Staples is a prolific designer and educator whose work designing graphical user interfaces on the Macintosh Classic in the 1980s and 1990s helped shape personal computing as we know it today.

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Danielle Baskin gives words to her many wondrous worlds

Danielle Baskin is a product designer, situation designer, visual artist, and the founder of numerous eccentric small businesses such as a Branded Fruit, Dialup, and Maskalike.

Devon Zuegel

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Gretchen McCulloch talks about why we talk the way we do online

Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist — an analyst of the language of the internet, for the people of the internet. She's the author of the New York Times bestselling "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language," a Resident Linguist at WIRED, and was formerly the Resident Linguist at The Toast.

Devon Zuegel

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Omar Rizwan on shaping computers into friendlier forms

Omar Rizwan is a researcher and developer interested in new computer interfaces and new ways of programming. He previously worked at Dynamicland, Stripe, and Khan Academy. He’s a prolific creator of interesting projects such as Geokit, Screenotate, Hijack Your Feed, and many others.

Devon Zuegel

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Howard Rheingold on the past and present of virtual communities

Howard Rheingold is a writer and educator known for being one of the first thinkers to treat the internet as a social and cultural environment.

Devon Zuegel

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Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

Alan Kay, or the “father of personal computers," is best known for his work on object-oriented programming languages, windowing graphical user interface design, and for leading the team that developed Smalltalk.

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