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Alan Kay

Computer Science

#8

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#8

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#7

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Object Oriented Programming

#1

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#1

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#1

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Database

#31

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#32

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#17

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Computer Science

Alan Kay's Degrees

Bachelors Mathematics and Molecular Biology University of Colorado Boulder
Masters Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Utah
PhD Computer Science University of Utah

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

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Alan Kay's Published Works

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Published Works

Personal Dynamic Media (1977) (536)
Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997) (531)
The early history of Smalltalk (1993) (440)
A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages (1972) (236)
Microelectronics and the Personal Computer (1977) (200)
Croquet - a collaboration system architecture (2003) (121)
User Interface: A Personal View (2005) (81)
Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects (2011) (37)
Now is the Time for Action: Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Environmental Systems (2010) (33)
Croquet: a menagerie of new user interfaces (2004) (33)
The Use of Vision and Manipulation to Solve the "Instant Insanity" Puzzle (1971) (28)
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (2001) (21)
Computational thinking should just be good thinking (2019) (21)
A Conversation with Alan Kay (2004) (21)
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 (2006) (18)
Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak - A Usable Smalltalk Written in Itself (1997) (18)
Annotation authoring in collaborative 3D virtual environments (2005) (18)
The Isabelle/Isar Implementation (2016) (14)
A critical assessment of hypertext systems (1988) (13)
Interview with Alan Kay (2003) (13)
A Laboratory for Hand-Eye Research (1971) (13)
3D Model Annotation from Multiple Viewpoints for Croquet (2006) (13)
FLEX - A Flexible Extendable Language (1968) (10)
The computer revolution hasn't happened yet (keynote session) (2000) (6)
Artificial Intelligence: Its Impact on Human Occupations and Distribution of Income (1984) (6)
User Interface, or User Interference? (2004) (6)
Filters and tasks in Croquet (2005) (6)
Recommendations for Interdisciplinary Study of Tipping Points in Natural and Social Systems (2010) (5)
Computer scientists' responsibility to educational research: A dynamic medium for creative thought (1974) (5)
Is “ Software Engineering ” an Oxymoron ? (4)
An Enhanced Programming Environment for Generative Design (2016) (3)
Scalability of Collaborative Environments (2006) (3)
Position paper on: how to advance from hobby computing to personal computing (1978) (3)
Teaching smalltalk (methods for teaching the programming language smalltalk; smalltalk in the classr (1972) (3)
The cuneiform tablets of 2015 (2015) (3)
The Arts of the Hidden: An Essay for the Left Hand (2015) (2)
Methods For Teaching The Programming Language Small talk (1977) (2)
Software Engineering In The Year 2001 (1989) (2)
MagMites design , fabrication , and control of wireless resonant magnetic micromachines for dry and wet environments (2011) (2)
Towards Making a Computer Tutor for Children of All Ages: A Memo (2016) (1)
One Point of View: The Power Of the Context (2004) (1)
"The computer revolution", "computer science", and "software engineering" haven't happened yet (2004) (1)
Computer structures: past, present and future (abstract) (1971) (1)
The User Interface as a Theatrical Mirror (1985) (1)
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (Abstract) (1998) (1)
The Two-Eyed Man (2015) (0)
Soothsayers of the electronic age (1984) (0)
User Interface Design in the Smalltalk Computing System (Abstract) (1980) (0)
Where Are We Headed (2006) (0)
Extracting Energy from the Turing Tarpit (2012) (0)
Keynote address (summary only) (1987) (0)
High-tech Think Tank and Action Workbench Frontier Editorial Board (0)
Two Communities, Two Languages "interface" "designer" Figure 1.~ (0)
Smalltalk and generic concepts in programming languages (1979) (0)
Graphical User Interfaces (2002) (0)
Programming for children on a personal computer (Abstract of presentation) (1978) (0)
Masterclass: Alan Kay, clarinet (2011) (0)
Generic programming: APL and Smalltalk (1981) (0)
Turing Award Lecture (2022) (0)
Plenary: Alan Kay & Vishal Sikka in Conversation (2016) (0)

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