PARC

...one common origin: Alan Kay's Dynabook. Kay, a former Xerox PARC computer scientist, drew up the idea of a portable computer in 1968, when computers still weighed over 100 pounds and ate punch cards. His definition of the perfect, portable...

In this article: Alan Kay, Wired.com, Xerox, Amazon Kindle, Laptops, Chuck Thacker, and HyperCard

...Lev Vygotsky, and of Constructionist learning. These further influenced his views. In 1970, Kay joined Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center, PARC . In the 1970s he was one of the key members there to develop prototypes of networked...

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

But Chuck Thacker aims to change that. To understand the importance of such machines in computing history remember what Alan Kay says of the predecessor used to develop Smalltalk at Xerox PARC: We invented the Alto and it allowed us to...

In this article: Chuck Thacker, Smalltalk, Intel, E mail, Alan Kay, Derivative, Lisp, and Lisp machine

The Dynabook's original illustration in Alan C. Kay's 1972 paper The Dynabook concept was created by Alan Kay in 1968, two years before the founding of Xerox PARC. Kay wanted to make "A Personal Computer For Children Of All Ages. " The...

In this article: Alan C. Kay, Smalltalk, Squeak, Microsoft, Xerox Alto, Jean Piaget, Xerox PARC, Seymour Papert, and Toshiba

...direction manufacturers decide to take, it's clear netbooks are getting closer to fulfilling the vision of Alan Kay, the former Xerox PARC researcher who first drew the concept of the mobile, personal computer back when computers were still...

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

...in Unit Operations, it's talking about object-oriented programming (OOP). Like a lot of things we study in digital media programs, OOP goes back to Xerox PARC. Alan Kay's team created this language called Smalltalk, based on the idea of...

In this article: Grand Theft Auto III, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Bukowski, and Liberal arts

...in the early 1970s, the idea of a portable personal computer followed. A "personal, portable information manipulator" was imagined by Alan Kay at Xerox PARC in 1968 and described in his 1972 paper as the "Dynabook". The IBM SCAMP...

In this article: Laptop, Lithium, Linux, UPS, Intel, Netbooks, Gavilan SC, DVD, Epson, and Apple

...boundaries between them (such as window borders, title bars, etc). Research continued at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center / PARC (led by Alan Kay). They used overlapping windows. During the 1980's the term "WIMP ", which...

In this article: Apple, GIMP, Xerox Corporation, Microsoft, and Alan Kay

...in Engineering Mathematics & Statistics in 1972. Simonyi then went to Stanford University for graduate studies and was hired by Xerox PARC during its most productive period, working alongside luminaries such as Alan Kay, Butler Lampson and...

In this article: Microsoft, Charles Simonyi, Bill Gates, International Space Station, Stanford University, Intentional Software, Robert Metcalfe, and Soyuz TMA