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Alan Kay
Alan Kay holding the prototype of the Dynabook
Born
Alan Curtis Kay
(1940-05-17) May 17, 1940 (age 83)
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education
University of Colorado at Boulder (BS) University of Utah College of Engineering (MS, PhD)
Known for
Dynabook Object-oriented programming Smalltalk Desktop metaphor Graphical user interface Windows
Spouse
Bonnie MacBird
Awards
ACM Turing Award (2003) Kyoto Prize Charles Stark Draper Prize
Scientific career
Fields
Computer science
Institutions
Xerox PARC Stanford University Atari Inc. Apple Inc. ATG Walt Disney Imagineering UCLA Kyoto University MIT Viewpoints Research Institute Hewlett-Packard Labs
Thesis
FLEX: A Flexible Extendable Language(1968)
Doctoral advisors
David C. Evans Robert S. Barton
Notable students
David Canfield Smith
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940)[1] is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the early versions of the language and coining the term "object-oriented."
He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts.[2] He received the Turing award in 2003.[3]
Kay is also a former professional jazz guitarist, composer, and theatrical designer. He also is an amateur classical pipe organist.
Computer scientist Alan Kay
^"ACM Turing Award". 2003. published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012
^Kay, Alan (1997). The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (Speech).
^"Alan Kay | Biography, Inventions, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
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