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...himself as well as tech industry luminaries such as Google's director of research Peter Norvig, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, computer scientist Alan Kay and MIT professors Thomas Malone and Hiroshi Ishii. Engelbart, now 83, is a...

In this article: Douglas Engelbart, Google, Silicon Valley, Wired.com, PhotoShop, and Stanford University

...research for a time to run the family business, the Homestead Hotel, in Virginia. He then worked at Interval Research Corporation, and then returned to Apple. Starting at Xerox, and then at Apple, he developed Fabrik, a visual programming...

In this article: Alan Kay, Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., Smalltalk, Squeak, JavaScript, Stanford University, Xerox PARC, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, and Harvard University

Through a friendship with Alan Kay, a crucial figure in the earlier creation of the personal computer at Xerox PARC, Pixar's central figures were introduced to Steve Jobs, already worth $185 million and beginning his Apple exile. After...

In this article: Pixar, Steve Jobs, Disney, George Lucas, Michael Eisner, Toy Story, and Sun Microsystems

...about a special event announcing a revision of the extremely successful MacBook, and many have speculated the next release will be Apple's netbook: Perhaps the fabled "Brick" or the MacBook Touch, which would essentially be a larger,...

In this article: Amazon.com, Alan Kay, DVD, Intel, Wired.com, Toshiba, Apple, Phoenix Technologies, and Dell

...to the Macintosh. During that period the C++ language had just been introduced, but Sassenrath, along with many other Apple researchers, preferred the more pure OOL implementation of the Smalltalk language. Working at ATG with...

In this article: Carl Sassenrath, Amiga, Apple, Smalltalk, Ukiah, Andy Bechtolsheim, Silicon Valley, and California

...American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991. Tesler left Apple in 1997 to co-found Stagecast Software, which allowed him to apply his enthusiasm for kids' programming and use of computers, an...

In this article: Yahoo, Apple Computer, Xerox PARC, Amazon.com, Object Pascal, Smalltalk, and Gypsy

...created a database schema mapping tool called Babelfish. In 1995, he moved to work at Apple Computer, reporting to Alan Kay, where he developed the Meta Content Framework (MCF) format. In 1997 he joined Netscape Corporation where together...

In this article: Netscape Corporation, Google, Alan Kay, RSS, XML, Open Directory Project, Cyc, and Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation

...of networked workstations using the programming language Smalltalk. These inventions were later commercialized by Apple Computer in their Lisa and Macintosh computers. Kay is one of the fathers of the idea of object-oriented programming,...

In this article: Alan Curtis Kay, Walt Disney Imagineering, Squeak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PARC, Seymour Papert, Apple Computer, Smalltalk, and Sketchpad