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Alan Kay
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American computer scientist (born 1940)
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Alan Kay is indexed among the 79 entries in Vinony's Turing Award collection. It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Vinony's link graph records 404 inbound references to Alan Kay, and connects out to programming language, Vint Cerf and Smalltalk.
It sits within the topics 1940 births, Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts and American computer programmers.
Vinony links it to 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1920
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Mental Health and Learning Disability
- My Generations
- Margate
- Creative art through photography
- Francis Frith's The Cinque Ports and the two ancient towns
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 346
- Total plays
- 673
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,693x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,639x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,002x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 17,808x
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Quotes
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
- “[ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.”
- “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
- “A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”
- “Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”
- “The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.”
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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
- Image
- Alan Kay (3097597186) (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Alan Kay
- date of birth
- 1940-05-17
- Erdős number
- 8
Sources (10)
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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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alan Kay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.