プロジェクトマネジャー：　Ａｌａｎ　Kａｙ　（President, Viewpoints Research Institute）

１．プロジェクト全体の概要

　This project was intended to be organized around interesting research areas that would arise from making the Squeak/Tweak development environment more suitable for use in Japan and elsewhere in the world. During this period, the grants awarded concentrated on developing computer systems that could help children or teachers learn without needing other primary instructors.  Today there are a number of active research groups around the world, and now in Japan, seeking to make better authoring environments for children that will work on a larger scale and over greater age ranges.

２．プロジェクト採択時の評価（全体）

　When the project proposals were first submitted they were reviewed with several points in mind; 1) relevance to the “call for projects”; 2) innovation and creativity of thought; 3) possible impact on other research in the area; 4) potential commercial value; and 5) relevance to other work in computer science and education in Japan and other countries.

３．プロジェクト終了時の評価

　We are assessing these projects overall by multiplying the quality of content by the amount of work (but with a cutoff that doesn't accept low quality or low amount of work). All three of the projects show quite a bit of work and the reports were reasonably extensive to very extensive. The choice of problems in each of the projects was good, and considerable progress during the funded project was made and reported. In general, we are very happy with the results from this funding period.