Alan Kay
Musician, Technologist, and Academic
Weird Fact of the Day (that you probably didn't know)...miles from Bletchley Park into London for meetings. Friday, August 14: The idea for a laptop was first developed in the late '60s - Alan Kay of Xerox then wrote about coming up with a 'personal, portable information manipulator' in a 1972... In this article: Walt Disney, Buffalo, Oscar, NASA, H.G. Wells, Charlie Chaplin, and World War II |
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New Yorker: Arts & Culture | 7 days ago
Goings on About Town: Holiday Music-Classical
...Symphony Space's "All-Star" performance, an event that includes such reliable players as the flutist Eugenia Zukerman, the clarinettist Alan Kay, and the harpsichordist Bradley Brookshire. (Broadway at 95th St. 212-864-5400. Dec. 20 at 7.) |...
In this article: New Year's Eve, Kent Tritle, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Anglican, and St. Thomas Choir
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | November 04, 2009
Down to the nuts and bolts
...computer), MacBook Pro, OpenWRT router (for building powerful, inexpensive internet gateways). Most admired technologist: Alan Kay (Xerox Parc, Smalltalk, computer education), Guy L. Steele (computer scientist, inventor of Scheme),...
In this article: Robert Pirsig, Philosopher, IPod, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Unix, and Small business
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Wikipedia | October 27, 2009
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research...
In this article: Alan Curtis Kay, Walt Disney Imagineering, Squeak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PARC, Seymour Papert, Apple Computer, Smalltalk, and Sketchpad
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Wired: Tech Biz | July 05, 2009
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
...Editor in Chief Chris Anderson discusses his latest book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. All this was possible because Alan Kay, an engineer at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, understood what Moore's law was doing to...
In this article: Waste, Wired, George Gilder, Xerox, and Dell
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Error 33
...to make sure that as many dependencies as possible use established technology, engineering, or research results. Xerox alumnus Alan Kay has elaborated this into two "sets of theories" that contradict each other. In one direction, avoidance of...
In this article: Xerox Parc, Xerox, Amazon.com, Wysiwyg, Web 2.0, Bravo, and Microsoft Word
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Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.
...Award for Outstanding Young Scientist, for his Xerox PARC research, including Bit blit. In 1987, with Alan Kay, and Adele Goldberg , he received the ACM Software System Award, for his work on Smalltalk, the first fully object-oriented...
In this article: Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., Smalltalk, Squeak, Apple Inc., JavaScript, Stanford University, Xerox PARC, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, and Harvard University
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reddit.com: what's new online | January 26, 2009
Alan Kay: The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. The biggest barrier to improving education for children... is the completely impoverished imaginations of most adults.
...of thinking about "what's going on for all time all at once" are interesting and important." -Alan Kay Yeah I have to agree with Alan Kay, that we haven't even turned much, to what computers would really be good at teaching / help...
In this article: Seymour Papert, Mathematics, Pumpkin, Linux, VI, Microsoft Office, Emacs, Reddit, and Lunar Lander
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Coding Horror | January 19, 2009
A Visit With Alan Kay
Alan Kay is one of my computing heroes. All this stuff we do every day as programmers? Kay had a hand in inventing a huge swath of it: Computer scientist Kay was the leader of the group that invented object-oriented programming, the...
In this article: PARC, Douglas Engelbart, Chewing gum, and HTML
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Boing Boing | November 20, 2008
Illustrating Alan Kay's Role in Portable Computing
...(Lenovoa s X300) as it travels from conception to the marketplace.a Here's the first panel of this version, which tells the story of Alan Kay, one of the creative visionaries and inventors of the computer revolution. Steve wrote in his...
In this article: Smalltalk, Tracy Kidder, BusinessWeek, and Soul of a New Machine
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Wired: Gadget Lab | November 03, 2008
The Laptop Celebrates its 40th Year
...Notebooks Laptops today vary greatly in size, weight and purpose, but they all have 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...
In this article: Wired.com, PARC, Xerox, Amazon Kindle, Laptops, Chuck Thacker, and HyperCard
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Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design.
He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also on the advisory board of TTI/Vanguard. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- Birth Date:
- May 17, 1940
- Citizenship:
- United States
- University Attended:
- University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Utah
- Field:
- Computer Science
- Known for:
- Smalltalk
- Dynabook
- graphical user interface windows
- object-oriented programming
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