Kay, Alan

Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk.

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Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums Stewart Brand, 33, is a graduate of Standford (biology). From 1968 to 1971 he edited the Whole Earth Catalog. The first "Intergalactic spacewar olympics" will be held here, Wednesday 19 October, 2000 hours. First prize will be a year's
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2. Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay

Brief biography, old picture.

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Dr. Alan Kay, Disney Fellow and Vice President of Research and Development, The Walt Disney Company, is best known for the idea of personal computing, the conception of the intimate laptop computer, and the inventions of the now ubiquitous overlapping-window interface and modern object-oriented
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3. Alan Kay

Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution.

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Alan Kay, born Springfield, MA, May 17 th 1940; Kay is one of the inventors of the Smalltalk programming language and one of the fathers of the idea of Object Oriented Programming. He is the conceiver of the laptop computer and the architect of the modern "The best way to predict the future
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4. Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay

Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links.

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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!" inventor of
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5. MUF Mastery: Alan Kay

Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.

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In the late 60s, Alan Kay was a wild-eyed maniac doing his thesis on The Reactive Engine and forecasting that in the near future we would have cheap personal laptop computers with crisp color graphics and more computing power than an IBM mainframe. Obviously a nut case. Today we in fact have
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6. Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier

By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk, Atari. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.

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Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is , including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Brenda Laurel, and Avron Barr. The idea that people could use computers to amplify thought and communication, as
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7. mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography

A list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.

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Alan Kay’s Bibliography Verified references have signatures with square brackets. The others are taken from various sources, but I still dare to get my fingers on them. Please let me know, if you find new online or offline references to Alan Kay: I owe a big thank-you to Ulrich Klotz, Kay,
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8. Alan Kay

Growing article, with links to related topics. Wikipedia.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia May 17, 1940 ( 1940-05-17 ) (age 69) Viewpoints Research Institute Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an , known for his early pioneering work on design, and for coining the phrase, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." He is the
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9. Predicting The Future

By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering]

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Alan C. Kay is a fellow at Apple Computer Inc., a visionary, one of a few select scientists who have an independent charter to pursue far-out ideas. As he explains, his is a job which forbids him to grow up. The following remarks are taken from Kay's address before the 20th annual meeting of the
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10. From Dynabook to Squeak: A Study in Survivals

Part of a historical research project, tracing the evolution of Alan Kay's Dynabook vision over 3+ decades; many links.

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