Smalltalk

...else do people joke that working in technology means working in a fashion industry? Alan Kay, one of the inventors of Smalltalk, hits the nail on the head here. Knowledge from wild young hackers grows faster than any educational system for...

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...of Sanskrit. He lives near the beach in Aptos, California with his wife Cathleen Galas, from where he contributes to development of the Squeak implementation of Smalltalk, and to JavaScript research at Sun. In 1984, Ingalls...

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

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...

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...of the important contributors to the Squeak project. Ingalls wrote the paper "", as well as built the architecture for five generations of the Smalltalk language upon which Squeak is built. Squeak incorporates many of the elements Alan Kay...

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...communication) in the 1960s. Alan Kay worked on Smalltalk, which embodied these principles, in the 1970s, and by the 1980s it was well regarded and considered to represent the future of user interfaces. However, at this time,...

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...selector, etc. In 1972 Kay visited MIT and discussed some of his ideas for Smalltalk-72 building on the Logo work of Seymour Papert and the "little person" model of computation used for teaching children to program. However, the message...

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...line of sub-notebook computers called DynaBook. Alan Kay is actively involved in the One Laptop Per Child project that uses Smalltalk, Squeak, and the concepts of a computer for learning. Though the hardware required to create a Dynabook...

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...symbiosis." It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist learning, at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg , Ted Kaehler, Scott Wallace , and others during the 1970s. The language...

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...August 1981 issue of Byte magazine . In the 1970s, Kay's Smalltalk work had influenced the Lisp community to incorporate object-based techniques which were introduced to developers via the Lisp machine. Experimentation with various...

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