John Laird
Our illustrious leader developing his architectural analysis of a
blackboard system on a blackboard.
Professor Laird, rarely seen without a piece of chalk
in his hand, provides indespensible wisdom and guidance with the aid of his
fabulously complex blackboard diagrams. Not to be confused with a knowledge
system, in this context a blackboard refers to a wall sized, rectangular piece
of slate, usually black but in some instances green in color. Blackboards
have an interesting architectural property that lends itself to the display
and easy removal of multi-hued calcium carbonate based subastances.
Curiously, the environmental factors motivating the implementation of
blackboard systems have, in the past, been poorly studied. Here you see
Professor Laird presenting his groundbreaking work on this very subject.
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