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Viewpoints Research Institute wiki
'''VPRISoftware''' was the wiki site for the Viewpoints Research Institute (VPRI).  Also known as the '''VPRI Software Wiki''', it was a repository for VPRI software ideas and projects.


"Viewpoints Research Institute (VRI) is a {{tag|nonprofit}} public benefit {{tag|organization}} ... to improve "powerful ideas {{tag|education}}" for the world's children and to advance the state of systems {{tag|research}} and personal computing. Many of our themes co-evolved with the inventions of networked personal {{tag|computers}}, graphical user interfaces and dynamic object-oriented {{tag|programming}}.
Viewpoints Research Institute (VRI) is a {{tag|Nonprofit|non-profit}} public benefit {{tag|organization}} ... to improve "powerful ideas {{tag|education}}" for the world's {{tag|children}} and to advance the state of systems {{tag|research}} and personal {{tag|computing}}. Many of our themes co-evolved with the inventions of networked personal {{tag|computers}}, {{tag|graphical user interface}}s, and dynamic object-oriented {{tag|programming}}.
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our group invents computing technologies, content, curriculum, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), programming languages, implementation systems and processor and memory structures."
our group invents computing technologies, content, curriculum, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), programming languages, implementation systems and processor and memory structures.


Alan Kay at VRI developed the Squeak Etoys programming environment, which is installed on all OLPC XO-1 laptops.
Alan Kay at VRI developed the Squeak Etoys programming environment, which is installed on all [[OLPC]] XO-1 laptops.


"FoNC is an ongoing project to create a programming language substrate and springboard for investigating new computing paradigms."
FoNC is an ongoing project to create a programming language substrate and springboard for investigating new computing paradigms.


Fundamentals of New Computing wiki (FoNC wiki)
Fundamentals of New Computing wiki ([[FoNC]] wiki): http://www.VPRI.org/fonc_wiki/ [https://archive.is/http://VPRI.org/fonc_wiki*]
http://www.vpri.org/fonc_wiki/


... also has [http://www.vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/XO_Hacking some information] on programming the OLPC (related wiki: [[OLPCWiki]]).
... also has [http://www.VPRI.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/XO_Hacking some information] on programming the OLPC (related wiki: [[OLPC]]).


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*[https://archive.is/http://www.VPRI.org/vp_wiki* List of archived snapshots of <tt>www.VPRI.org/vp_wiki*</tt>] — at [[archive.is]]
*[[Archive.org:*/http://www.VPRI.org/vp_wiki*|List of more than 10,000 archived URLs captured for <tt>www.VPRI.org/vp_wiki*</tt>]] — at [[Archive.org]]


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