Roger Gregory (programmer)
Encyclopedia
Roger Everett Gregory is a US computer programmer, technologist and scientist. Gregory's work in project Xanadu
made him one of earliest pioneers of hypertext
technology. Gregory is also co-designer of a rotary rocket engine design based on the posthumous patents of Robert Goddard (U.S. patent 6212876 from 2001).
Project Xanadu
Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper...
made him one of earliest pioneers of hypertext
Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the...
technology. Gregory is also co-designer of a rotary rocket engine design based on the posthumous patents of Robert Goddard (U.S. patent 6212876 from 2001).
External links
- Overview of Gregory's work on Xanadu (chapter 6) (In the view of Xanadu members, the article is considered to be very negatively biased.)
- Roger Gregory Interview at Ted Nelson Book Launch
- Udanax, the open-source release of the Xanadu code base for SqueakSqueakThe Squeak programming language is a Smalltalk implementation. It is object-oriented, class-based and reflective.It was derived directly from Smalltalk-80 by a group at Apple Computer that included some of the original Smalltalk-80 developers...
, a Smalltalk implementation - Roger's site documenting the rotary rocket engine