From Alice to App Inventor, from the PC to your pocket.

Something I wrote to introduce a cycle of talks, that I thought (some of) you might be interested in: In the same way that =Personal Computers= took computing out of its traditional industry bounds, =Smartphones=, =Tablets= and =SmartTelevisions= pushed computing further into daily life, organizing everything from our communications, time scheduling, to our social relations or even health and diet. In parallel, pedagogy brought tools such as "Scratch" (http://scratch.mit.edu/), "Alice" (http://www.alice.org), and "App Inventor" (http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/) which simplify the task of describing what one desires from a computing device to the point where anyone, from preschool students to their grand-parents, can finally communicate his desiderata to the computer, and see them realized.