How chimpanzees helped inspire the Windows start menu

[lanux128]

So chimps dig Windows start menu.


Source: http://www.businessi...start-button-2015-7/

[mouser]

And here's a nice wikipedia page on the Start Menu which has some history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_menu

[app103]

So, this is the guy responsible for the taskbar?

[MilesAhead]

So chimps dig Windows start menu.

-lanux128 (July 31, 2015, 01:34 AM)

Hmm, B.F. Skinner references never peter out completely.  There may just be a few years between them. 

A friend of mine studied Skinner as his area of expertise.  The last time I saw him he showed me a hand written letter from Skinner accepting him as an intern.  My friend is probably retired by now.  Time whips by when I am not paying attention.

[lanux128]

Skinner always reminds of this guy, lol. https://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Walter_Skinner

[Deozaan]

So, I read the article, and I still don't see what Chimpanzees have to do with the Start Menu.

Chimpanzees had nothing to do with the Start Menu. A guy who used to work with chimpanzees used his knowledge and experience in teaching things simply, one step at a time, to design what became the Start Menu.

[MilesAhead]

Skinner always reminds of this guy, lol. https://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Walter_Skinner

-lanux128 (August 01, 2015, 08:40 AM)

Yeah, when I watched X-Files I thought that was a curious name.  btw I loved the episode where Pusher got the secretary to kick Skinner's ass.  Hilarious.

[MilesAhead]

It does kind of crack me up all the emphasis on a cascading menu.  Some real research that spawned lots of useful and still used innovations:

https://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Project_Athena