Talk:Brian Silverman

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I know Brian.

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Brian is Canadian and has lived in Canada all his life except for the years he studied at MIT (1974-1979). (I have no reference for this but I know it to be true from several personal sources)

Brian has contributed to the emulation of early computer artefacts:
http://spacewar.oversigma.com/html5/
http://www.visual6502.org/
http://archive.archaeology.org/1107/features/mos_technology_6502_computer_chip_cpu.html
http://www.4004.com/tim-mcnerney-4004-talk-transcript.html

Brian has created, with Paula Bonta, a variant of the LOGO programming language for creating art called TurtleArt:
http://www.turtleart.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics

TurtleArt has been part of the default Sugar distribution for the XO computers.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art/Misc
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.99.62.208 (talk • contribs)

Thanks for the extra information. I corrected his nationality, and added the information about the 6502 and 4004 emulators. Unfortunately the rest do not seem to meet our standards for reliable sourcing yet. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:22, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Here are some more sources about Brian's involvement in emulating Spacewar!
http://books.google.ca/books?id=q_AVJXKbE4wC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=silverman+spacewar&source=bl&ots=pPy2OzJ1t4&sig=kTkH7n4FTyiu-aHIr_3WWfRDe8M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=djcZUb7fFcmQ0QGX5oHwBQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=silverman%20spacewar&f=false

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/1464171.stm
http://pdp-1.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/index.php?f=resources
http://books.google.ca/books?id=26NyHREJwP8C&pg=RA1-PT67&lpg=RA1-PT67&dq=spacewar+silverman&source=bl&ots=uUi7k0YxDN&sig=jNYSvzz4WSk2xlFo4DthoXPBuh4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WDwZUZP9IbSP0QH1q4DIBg&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAzgK — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.99.62.208 (talk) 18:49, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Since I last posted here there have been some more references about Brian Silverman's involvement with TurtleArt.
There has been two books:
http://www.amazon.ca/Invent-Learn-Tinkering-Engineering-Classroom/dp/0989151107/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371833465&sr=8-1&keywords=stager
and http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Change-World-Social-Impact/dp/0230337317

It is also mentioned in Boytchev's Logo Tree project, a thorough lisitng of most LOGO versions that have been created: http://www.elica.net/download/papers/logotreeproject.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.91.208.36 (talk) 17:19, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

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