Bret Victor

Programming Talks by Bret Victor

The Future of Programming

The Future of Programming"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing." Presented at Dropbox's DBX conference on July 9, 2013. All of the slides are available at: http://worrydream.com/dbx/ For his recent DBX Conference talk, Victor took attendees back to the year 1973, donning the uniform ...

Inventing on Principle

Bret Victor
an hour
Inventing on PrincipleBret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis. ...

Stop Drawing Dead Fish

Bret Victor
an hour
Stop Drawing Dead FishAn incredible talk by Bret Victor about the essence of digital art. ...

The Humane Representation of Thought

Bret Victor
an hour
    The Humane Representation of ThoughtNew representations of thought — written language, mathematical notation, information graphics, etc — have been responsible for some of the most significant leaps in the progress of civilization, by expanding humanity’s collectively-thinkable territory. But at debilitating cost. These representations, having been invented for static media such as paper, tap into a ...

    Seeing Spaces

    Bret Victor
    15 minutes
      Seeing SpacesWhat if we designed a new kind of "maker space" ~ a space that isn't just for putting pieces together, but also for seeing and understanding a project's behavior in powerful ways? - seeing inside - seeing across time - seeing across possibilities "I think people need to work in a space that moves ...