Merry Christmas! Simple Science: Programming and HCI Mission Statement

This is a post in our Simple Science Descriptions series of pieces written with the Up-Goer Five Text Editor restricting writers to the ten hundred most used words in English. It's harder than you might think! Send your entries (preferably under 350 words) to jeanyang [at] mit [dot] edu.

--

I looked at it as a translation problem, so I started with something I had already carefully crafted to be simple and short (but full of technical terms), the mission statement on my homepage:

I work on programming and HCI.

• crowd computing: making people part of the programming system
• online education: helping crowds teach each other
• software development tools: making programming more productive for developers
• end-user programming: making programming easier for everybody

Here's the translation into TenHundred:

I work on better ways to tell computers what to do.  Some of the things I do are:

• making people part of the computer's brain
• helping crowds of people learn from each other using computers
• making it faster to tell computers what to do, for people who do it for their jobs
• making it easier to tell computers what to do, for everyone

- Rob Miller, Professor