Alan Kay

...of the Smalltalk language upon which Squeak is built. Squeak incorporates many of the elements Alan Kay proposed in the Dynabook concept, which he formulated in the 1960s. Kay is an important contributor to the Squeak project. Andreas...

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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...

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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

...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...

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...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...

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Ruminations on Computing - Programming, Test Development and More Alan Kay on User Interface Design As part of the Berkeley Webcast project, a pair of presentations by Alan Kay (of Smalltalk fame) is available. The presentation is from...

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...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...

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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...

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...(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...

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...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...

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