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Early advocate of using graphics for computer user interfaces, and of using computers to educate children creatively (*NOT* by wrote memory via drillware), one of the creators of object-oriented programming, leader in the creation of Smalltalk and the personal computer. Now working on Squeak and related software.

Subcategories

• Croquet
• Smalltalk
• Squeak

Resources in This Category

• A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big Talk with the Creator of Smalltalk, and Much More

  http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273
  Historical perspective on personal computing, programming languages, from one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers. [ACM Queue]

• Alan Kay

  http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML
  Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution.

• Alan Kay

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
  Growing article, with links to related topics. Wikipedia.

• Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron?

  http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_is_com.shtml
  Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria.

• Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas

  http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_the_10.shtml
  Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria.

• Alan Kay: The PC Must be Revamped, Now

  http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Expert-Voices/Alan-Kay-The-PC-Must-Be-Revamped151Now/
  PCs should help people learn, not merely perform tasks, the prize-winning computer scientist says. CIO Insight.

• Building Your Own Dynamic Language is Fun and Easy

  http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/070214.html
  Abstract, slide show, references, from First Steps on the Road to Reinventing Computing, by Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, 2007 Feb 14.

• Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay

  http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/04/03/alan_kay.html
  Smalltalk inventor speaks about computing today, and where it's going. [O'Reilly OpenP2P.com]

• Educom'98: Alan Kay: The Computer 'Revolution' Hasn't Happened Yet

  http://www.educause.edu/EDUCOM1998/4925#kay
  RealVideo webcast from conference by EDUCAUSE nonprofit association with goal to advance higher education by promoting intelligent use of information technology.

• Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay

  http://unrev.stanford.edu/presenters/alan_kay/alan_kay.html
  Brief biography, old picture.

• Lisa Rein's Tour of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation

  http://www.lisarein.com/alankay/tour.html
  Covers history, Smalltalk, Squeak, Etoys, late binding, Croquet; Sketchpad, PDP1 Spacewar, Lisp; Ivan Sutherland, Doug Englebart, John McCarthy; in text, photos, audio, video in different resolutions. Open Content, public domain.

• Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke

  http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf
  Describes new way to build programming languages, systems, environments, applications. By Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute.

• mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography

  http://www.mprove.de/diplom/referencesKay.html
  A list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.

• Predicting The Future

  http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/futures.htm
  By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering]

• Report on OOPSLA97

  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/oopsla.html
  Summaries of Alan Kay keynote talk, Squeak Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting, Squeak paper talk. By Mark Guzdial.

• Smalltalk with Object-Oriented Programming Pioneer Kay

  http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/interview/0,289202,sid26_gci962762,00.html
  Interview, on influences, history, rationale; laptops; advice. [SearchWebServices.com]

• SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums

  http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html
  Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk.

• Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay

  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/378
  Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.

• Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming

  http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2021/
  Brief citation, many forum comments. Lambda the Ultimate.

• Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier

  http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.html
  By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk, Atari. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.

• Watch What I Do

  http://www.acypher.com/wwid/FrontMatter/
  A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration.

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