ChucK dissertation + anthem + video!!!

[ge]

Dear all,

The final ChucK dissertation:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~gewang/thesis.html
(please send any errors you encounter, the online version can still be updated)

... and, of significantly higher replay value, Perry's ChucKian anthem:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/HackChuck.html

A video of a ChucK presentation at Stanford in November 2007:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpk461T6l4

Hearty and deep thanks to everyone in the ChucK community for your support, ideas, code, guidance, and encouragement so far!!!

Also, we'd like note that this marks not an end but a new beginning for ChucK, and that research, development, crashing of ChucK and friends will continue in full - at Princeton, Stanford, and many other places. New features, new bugs, new applications, toolkits, approaches, ideas, improvements to the community development process, and new things we can't begin to predict are on the way!

Thank you!! Happy ChucKing and keep on ChucKin'!

Yours,
Ge! (on behalf of ChucK team)

[Inventor]

[Kassen]

[dewdrop_world]

I've been meaning to congratulate Ge for a while on recent ChucK and career successes -- excellent work!

I don't recall if I mentioned this here before or not... if I did, feel free to pay as much attention to me as you would to Abraham Simpson when he's talking about wearing onions tied to his belt "because it was the style at the time." I had a very pleasant flashback looking at the ChucK timeline, since I was at the same conference at the Chinese Central Conservatory in Beijing where Ge presented the Audicle (which, even in a not-quite-finished form completely blew my mind). But at the beginning of the conference, Ge introduced himself to me by saying that he remembered my visit to the second semester electronic music seminar at Duke where I talked about my dissertation composition. !! Now that's not something you hear everyday, least of all halfway around the world.

What a fun week.

Anyway, it's nice to see ChucK growing and spreading. And I have no doubt that Scott (my diss advisor and teacher of the aforementioned electronic music classes) is very proud of this accomplishment too.

And I think every computer language should have its own 80's cheezy anthem. (By the way, any chance of posting even some of the code? I'd like to know more about how you structure larger sequencing designs in ChucK.)

James

[Inventor]

[Kassen]

[Inventor]

[Inventor]

On the subject of ChucK's future, we have the following possibilities:

The future of ChucK

2008: MAUI ported, Garbage Collection, Neural Net support
2009: First self-modifying ChucK neural net program written
2010: Gluck gives ChucK graphical capabilities, Network access soon follows
2011: First self-aware ChucK program, rights for software debate ensues
2012: First software procreation occurs, ChucKs demand a server on which to live
2013: ChucK passes Turing Test, Solves global economic problems
2014: First ChucKbot built, ChucKs working together invent flying cars
2015: ChucKs employed as IP professionals, ChucKs heal global internet crisis
2016: ChucKs ensure world peace by eliminating poverty in all nations
2017: ChucKs receive Nobel prize for peace

[kijjaz]

I've finished loading the published thesis, i'll try to re-read it all as soon as possible.

2109: ChucK invaded and infested in major University Servers,
obtaining massive power and storage and..
created MATRIX

which built up a gigantic island east of Africa continent
and hold 24-hours music and multimedia events.

(free beer between 5-9 pm)

[kijjaz]

I've just finished reading the whole thesis.
I really like it!
And I really like some descriptions and ideas in some pieces by PlorK.