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Leonardo's drawing 'Vitruvian Man' (Man of Perfect Proportions).

Reviews, Interviews, and Mentions of Leonardo's Laptop

Interviews

Ben Shneiderman introduces the new computing in an interview with The MIT Press.

Ubiquity, the magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery, Issue 32, September 24-30, 2002
The New Computing, Interview by John Gehl
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/b_shneiderman_3.html

The Kojo Nnamdi Show (1 hour interview), WAMU National Public Radio, Tuesday, January 21, 2003
http://www.wamu.org/kojo/shows/2003/knarc_030120.html

The Todd Mundt Show, National Public Radio, October 20, 2002
http://toddshow.org/log/dailylistings/110202002.asp

Reviews

Library Quarterly 74, 2 (April 2004)
Book Review by Parl Marty, 224-227
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~pmarty/reviews/leonardoslaptop.pdf

IEEE-USA: Today's Engineer
Book Review by Terrance Malkinson
October 2004
http://www.todaysengineer.org/Oct04/review.asp

Usability Interface: Newsletter of the Society for Technical Communications
April 2004
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/ui_2004april_mailer.pdf

Leonardo Reviews, Jack Ox, March 2004
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/mar2003/LEONARDO_ox .html

International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
Michael Burks, 2004
http://www.icdri.org/Reviews/leonardosLaptop.htm

Dr. Dobbs Electronic Review of Computer Books, Daniel Wohlbruck, Jan 2004
http://www.ercb.com/ddj/2004/ddj.0401.html

Society for Technical Communications, Allen Rotz, Oct 2003
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/0310-review-shneiderman.html

Internet Time Blog, Jay Cross, Sept 2003
http://www.internettime.com/blog/archives/000916.html

ComputerUser.com
Book Review by Elizabeth Millard, March 2003
http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2203,4,41_2,1,0301,03.html

SAP Design Guild
Book Review by Gerd Waloszek, posted 13 June 2003
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_leonardo.asp

Interfacing with Leonardo
Book Review by Jessie Thorpe, United Press International
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/entertainment/books/reviews/story/767621p-5526626c.html (The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California)
http://www.modbee.com/24hour/entertainment/books/reviews/story/767621p-5526626c.html (The Modesto Bee, Modesto, California)
http://www.heraldonline.com/24hour/entertainment/books/reviews/story/767621p-5526626c.html (The Herald, South Carolina)

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 54, No. 10, May 2003, pp. 977-978
Book Review by Melody Ivory
http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/vol54n10.html

First Monday, April 2003
Book Review by Peta Ellis
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_4/reviews/

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, April-June 2003, p. 85
Book Review by Susan Barnes
http://www.computer.org/annals/an2003/a2toc.htm (subscription required)

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
Book Review by Hugh Miller (published June 2003)
with a response by Ben Shneiderman
http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=225&BookID=189

The Electronic Library, Volume 21, issue 2
Book Review by Maurice B. Line
PDF (44kb)

SIGCHI Bulletin 34, 6, January-February 2003
Book Review by Gerard Torenvliet
http://sigchi.org/bulletin/2003.1/

The Rational Edge, December 2002
Book Review by Parshu Anantharam
http://www.therationaledge.com/content/dec_02/r_leosLaptop_pa.jsp

Globe Technology, September 23, 2002
Book Review by Andrew Allentuck
http://www.globetechnology.com/books/0262194767.html

Mentions

BusinessWeek, January 20, 2003
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Charts, by Steve Wildstrom
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_03/b3816045.htm

UsabilityNews.com, October 25, 2002
Feature: Shneiderman demands Computing Renaissance, by Ann Light
http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article766.asp

Washington Post, October 13, 2002
Mention by Leslie Walker
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14994-2002Oct11.html

Darwin, June 2002
What Price Frustration?, by Sari Kalin
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/060102/sins_sidebar1_content.html

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