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ALAN KAY
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE
IS TO INVENT IT”
Presented by: Brennen TaylorCSCE 221 – Spring 2014
BEGINNINGS
• Born on May 17, 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts
• Father designed leg prostheses
• Mother was a musician
• Attended Brooklyn Technical High School
EARLY COMPUTER YEARS
• Introduced to computers when Kay entered the Air Force
• Started work with the IBM 1401
• First started thinking about Object-Oriented Code design
• Left Air Force to attend college
• Undergraduate Degree At University of Colorado in 1966
• Mathematics
• Molecular Biology
GRADUATE YEARS
• Moved to University of Colorado
• Masters degree in electrical engineering
• Ph. D. in computer science in 1969
• Contributed to ARPA research
• Designed FLEX and published “Reactive Engine” thesis
• Influenced by Douglas Engelbart’s “Mother of all Demos”
• GUI interface
• Hypertext
• Mouse interaction
RESEARCH AT PARC
• Hired at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
• Designed Dynabook
• Touch screen
• Keyboard
• Designed and created SmallTalk
• First Object-Oriented language
• Ran on Alto computer
AFTER PARC
• Worked for Atari in 1983
• Joined Apple in 1984
• Developed Squeak
• Moved to Disney’s Imagineering Division in 1997
• Continues to work on Squeak
• Actively works to get a personal computer for all children
• One Laptop Per Child Program
• Viewpoints Research Institute
AWARDS AND HONORS
• ACM Software Systems Award
• J-D Warnier Prix D'Informatique (2001)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Fellow of National Academy of Engineering
• Won ACM Turing Award in 2003
• Pioneering ideas at root of object oriented programming
• Leading Smalltalk development team
• Fundamental contributions to personal computing
• Kyoto Prize in 2004
CITATION
• http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/kay_3972189.cfm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xerox_Alto.jpg
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dynabook.png
• http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nexusae0_Alan_Kay_and_the_prototype_of_Dynabook_pt._5_3010032738.jpg
• http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Alan,Kay/