The Views System Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam Views is an open-architecture computing environment designed to make new applications easy to add, and all applications easy to use. It is a framework for applications such that the system can be put to productive use by end users without much training in using computers, for varying tasks that are relatively complicated and not necessarily well structured. This is achieved through the consistent uniformity and extreme conceptual simplicity of the interface and the high level of integration between functions of the environment. The user interface is part of the kernel of the system so that all applications automatically have the same user interface, and objects from other applications may be exchanged between applications without any loss of structure, allowing the objects to be accessed by the user in the same way regardless of which application has imported them. It was founded in 1987 on governmental funding.
Participants are companies, that pay a yearly contribution, and universities.
By 1993, SERC should be able to exist on these contributions only. Activities include knowledge transfer between universities and industry, and research. She studied Social Science Informatics at the University of Amsterdam, including artificial intelligence and human-computer communication. Steven Pemberton is project leader of the Computer Systems and Ergonomics group at the CWI, the Dutch national institute for research in mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam. His research interests revolve around user interfaces in a broad sense, including programming language design and usage.