Abstract

Project 2000 On January 28, 1988 the five finalists in Apple's ``PROJECT 2000'' competition assembled at the company's Cupertino headquarters to present papers on their projects. Teams from the University of California at Berkeley, Drexel University, the University of Illinois, Princeton University and the University of Minnesota all prepared to make their cases before a panel of distinguished judges which included futurist Alvin Toffler, science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, education author Diane Ravitch, and computer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Alan Kay.

The underlying purpose of the competition was stated by John Sculley, Apple's chairman and chief executive officer. ``PROJECT 2000 extended a challenge to students to visualize how computer technology will be used in the year 2000. At the same time we wanted to engage them in an enriching educational experience that would lead them to explore the possible social, economic and technological climate of the world at the turn of the century.''

The University of Illinois' entry Tablet was declared the winner. Tablet integrates the power of computation and communication into a package as portable as a notebook. To learn of the wonders it performs enter Tablet through ``Academic Computing In The Year 2000.''

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