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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 ...
Christopher Crawford (born June 1, 1950) is an American video game designer and writer. Hired by Alan Kay to work at Atari, Inc., he wrote the computer wargame Eastern Front (1941) for Atari 8-bit computers which was sold through the Atari Program Exchange and later Atari's official product line.
Alan Kay is a computer scientist known for his work at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Alan Kay may also refer to: Alan Kay (judge), US magistrate judge in Washington DC; Alan Cooke Kay (born 1932), US District Court judge for the District of Hawaii; Alan Kay (footballer) (born 1961), Scottish footballer; Alan Kay, season 1 winner of the ...
Alan Wake and Jesse Faden are breaking into Hollywood.
Andre LaMothe – created XGameStation, one of world's first video game console development kits; Leslie Lamport – LaTeX; Butler Lampson – QED original co-author; Peter Landin – ISWIM, J operator, SECD machine, off-side rule, syntactic sugar, ALGOL, IFIP WG 2.1 member; Tom Lane – main author of libjpeg, major developer of PostgreSQL
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In Computer Gaming World, Bob Proctor wrote, "History of the World is both a good game and a disappointment." He praised its accurate reproduction of the original board game, but heavily criticized its multiplayer features, and called its lack of online play "inexcusable" for a multiplayer title in 1997. [2]