an attempt to integrate two articles selected from "Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality" edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan with image processing and remote sensing.

Alan Kay, "User Interface: A Personal View" p. 121

"Art, if you want a definition of it, is criminal action. It conforms to no rules. Not even its own."

"Art's a way we have for throwing out ideas - ones we've picked up in or out of our heads. What's marvelous is that as we throw them out - these ideas- they generate others, ones that weren't even in our heads to begin with."

"In this essay, Cage links the notion of an interactive listener to the concept of the computer as an agent of participation rather than as a servile "labor-saving" device." - Randall Packer

"What we need is a computer that isn't labor-saving but which increases the work for us to do, that puns (this is McLuhan's idea) as well as joyce (this is Brown's idea) revealing bridges where we thought there weren't any, turns us (my idea) not 'on' but into artists."
- John Cage

"Though much of what McLuhan wrote was obscure and arguable, the sum total to me was a shock that reverberates even now. The computer is a medium! I had always thought of it as a tool, perhaps a vehicle" - Alan Kay

"If the computer is only a vehicle, perhaps you can wait until high school to give "driver's ed" on it - but if it's a medium, then it must be extended all the way into the world of the child" - Alan Kay

"the actual dawn of user interface design first happened when computer designers finally noticed, not just that end users had functioning minds, but that a better understanding of how those minds worked would completely shift the paradigm of interaction"

"as soon as I was ready to look deeply at the human element, and especially after being convinced that the heart of the matter lay with Brunner's multiple mentality model, I found the knowledge landscape positively festooned with already accomplished useful work."
- Alan Kay

"After an Oriental decade, a Tibetan Bikku returned to Toronto to teach. He told me that were he to speak the truth his audience would drop to six. Instead he gives lectures transmitting not the spirit but the understandable letter. Two hundred people listen on each occasion, all of them deeply moved." - John Cage

Examples from my own experience with user interface design:

image processing software for education and research

satellite image data archives