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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.
Alan Kay holding the mockup of Dynabook, 2008. Describing the idea as "A Personal Computer For Children of All Ages", Kay wanted the Dynabook concept to embody the learning theories of Jerome Bruner and some of what Seymour Papert— who had studied with developmental psychologist Jean Piaget and who was one of the inventors of the Logo programming language — was proposing.
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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 ...
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.
Simula introduced important concepts that are today an essential part of object-oriented programming, such as class and object, inheritance, and dynamic binding. [10] The object-oriented Simula programming language was used mainly by researchers involved with physical modelling , such as models to study and improve the movement of ships and ...
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