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Alan Kay
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American computer scientist (born 1940)
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Alan Kay is an American computer scientist, programmer, and university teacher. He was born in Springfield in 1940. His professional career includes positions at the University of California, Los Angeles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PARC, and Kyoto University. He also served as a chairperson. Kay is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
He received the Turing Award, the Charles Stark Draper Prize, the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, and the ACM Software System Award. Kay produced the Dynabook. He is educated at the University of Utah, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Colorado, and Brooklyn Technical High School. His doctoral advisors were David C. Evans and Robert S. Barton. He is a jazz musician and is married to Bonnie MacBird. His archives are held at the Computer History Museum.
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- Total plays
- 673
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Key facts
- Born
- Alan Curtis Kay , ( 1940-05-17 ) May 17, 1940 (age 86) , Springfield, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- University of Colorado, Boulder ( BS ), University of Utah ( 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
- 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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Springfield
- Spouse
- Bonnie MacBird
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- Brooklyn Technical High School
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert S. Barton
- Field of work
- computer science
- Image
- Alan Kay (3097597186) (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Alan Kay
- date of birth
- 1940-05-17
- Erdős number
- 8
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- product or material produced
- Dynabook
- significant person
- Quincy Jones
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Encyclopedic overview
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist who pioneered 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. He received the Turing Award in 2003.
Early life and work
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