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Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) [1] is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering 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.
The KiddiComp concept, envisioned by Alan Kay in 1968 while a PhD candidate, [2] [3] and later developed and described as the Dynabook in his 1972 proposal "A personal computer for children of all ages", [1] outlines the requirements for a conceptual portable educational device that would offer similar functionality to that now supplied via a laptop computer or (in some of its other ...
Alan Cooke Kay (July 5, 1932 – July 30, 2024) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Education and career [ edit ]
Retired U.S. District Court Judge Alan Cooke Kay, the jurist who issued historic rulings protecting Kamehameha Schools admissions’ policy and journalism in Hawaii, died Tuesday. He was 92.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
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Alan Kay has commented that despite the attention given to objects, messaging is the most important concept in Smalltalk: "The big idea is 'messaging'—that is what the kernel of Smalltalk/Squeak is all about (and it's something that was never quite completed in our Xerox PARC phase)."
As Peter Siebel wrote about Dan in his book Coders at Work, Reflections on the Craft of Programming, "If Alan Kay is Smalltalk's father, Dan Ingalls is its mother—Smalltalk may have started as a gleam in Alan Kay's eye, but Ingalls is the one who did the hard work of bringing it into the world.