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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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. Kay + Hillis

Together, two legendary minds: Alan Kay, Danny Hillis. The result: a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of the future. [Wired]

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Wired brings together two legendary minds: Alan Kay and Danny Hillis. The result is a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of times ahead." Wired brings together two legendary minds: Alan Kay and Danny Hillis. The result is a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of times
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8. Lisa Rein's Tour of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation

Covers history, Smalltalk, Squeak, Etoys, late binding, Croquet; Sketchpad, PDP1 Spacewar, Lisp; Ivan Sutherland, Doug Englebart, John McCarthy; in text, photos, audio, video in different resolutions. Open Content, public domain.

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Lisa Rein's Tour Of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation This page last updated May 9, 2003 "I once asked Ivan, 'How is it possible for you to have invented computer graphics, done the first object oriented software system and the first real time constraint solver all by yourself in one year?" And
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9. Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay

Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.

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Last updated at 1:54 pm UTC on 11 December 1999 "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." – Alan Kay [Photo: - link no longer works, new link? but if we make it a hyperlink, it becomes a picture–is there any way to quote a .GIF reference? ( This is a group of students who
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10. Alan Kay on Computing

Brief critique of current state of computing. Fortune.

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