Alan Kay | Academic Influence

Why Is Alan Kay Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist. 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. He is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He was awarded the Turing award in 2003.

Alan Kay's Published Works

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Published Papers

Personal Dynamic Media (532)
Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (521)
The early history of Smalltalk (290)
A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages (226)
Microelectronics and the Personal Computer (199)
The early history of Smalltalk (155)
Croquet - a collaboration system architecture (124)
User Interface: A Personal View (92)
Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects (36)
Now is the Time for Action: Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Environmental Systems (31)
The Use of Vision and Manipulation to Solve the "Instant Insanity" Puzzle (28)
Croquet: a menagerie of new user interfaces (27)
A Conversation with Alan Kay (20)
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (18)
Annotation authoring in collaborative 3D virtual environments (18)
Proposal to NSF - Granted on August 31st 2006 Steps Toward The Reinvention of Programming A Compact And Practical Model of Personal Computing As A Self-Exploratorium (18)
Computational thinking should just be good thinking (16)
Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak - A Usable Smalltalk Written in Itself (14)
The Isabelle/Isar Implementation (13)
3D Model Annotation from Multiple Viewpoints for Croquet (13)
A Laboratory for Hand-Eye Research (13)
A critical assessment of hypertext systems (12)
Interview with Alan Kay (12)
FLEX - A Flexible Extendable Language (9)
Croquet: a menagerie of new user interfaces (8)
User Interface, or User Interference? (6)
Filters and tasks in Croquet (6)
Artificial Intelligence: Its Impact on Human Occupations and Distribution of Income (5)
Computer scientists' responsibility to educational research: A dynamic medium for creative thought (5)
Recommendations for Interdisciplinary Study of Tipping Points in Natural and Social Systems (5)
The computer revolution hasn't happened yet (keynote session) (5)
Is “ Software Engineering ” an Oxymoron ? (4)
Scalability of Collaborative Environments (3)
Position paper on: how to advance from hobby computing to personal computing (3)
The cuneiform tablets of 2015 (2)
An Enhanced Programming Environment for Generative Design (2)
MagMites design , fabrication , and control of wireless resonant magnetic micromachines for dry and wet environments (2)
Teaching smalltalk (methods for teaching the programming language smalltalk; smalltalk in the classr (2)
Computer structures: past, present and future (abstract) (1)
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (Abstract) (1)
The Arts of the Hidden: An Essay for the Left Hand (1)
Towards Making a Computer Tutor for Children of All Ages: A Memo (1)
Methods For Teaching The Programming Language Small talk (1)
Turing Award Lecture (1)
"The computer revolution", "computer science", and "software engineering" haven't happened yet (1)
The User Interface as a Theatrical Mirror (1)
Software Engineering In The Year 2001 (1)
One Point of View: The Power Of the Context (1)
Masterclass: Alan Kay, clarinet (0)
Two Communities, Two Languages "interface" "designer" Figure 1.~ (0)
Smalltalk and generic concepts in programming languages (0)
Generic programming: APL and Smalltalk (0)
Generic programming: APL and Smalltalk (0)
Smalltalk and generic concepts in programming languages (0)
Computer scientists' responsibility to educational research: A dynamic medium for creative thought (0)
Soothsayers of the electronic age (0)
Extracting Energy from the Turing Tarpit (0)
High-tech Think Tank and Action Workbench Frontier Editorial Board (0)
The Two-Eyed Man (0)
Making the Invisible More Visible—Children, Powerful Ideas, and Technologies: Kyoto Prize Workshop Laureate Lecture (0)
Plenary: Alan Kay & Vishal Sikka in Conversation (0)
Programming for children on a personal computer (Abstract of presentation) (0)
Graphical User Interfaces (0)
Keynote address (summary only) (0)
Where Are We Headed (0)
User Interface Design in the Smalltalk Computing System (Abstract) (0)

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