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Alan Kay is an American computer scientist. He joined Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC) in 1970. In the seventies he was one of the key members there to develop prototypes of networked workstations using the programming language Smalltalk. These inventions were later commercialized by Apple with the Apple Macintosh. Alan Kay is one of the fathers of the idea of object-oriented programming, along with some colleagues at PARC and predecessors at the Norwegian Computing Centre. He is the conceiver of the Dynabook concept which defined the basics of the laptop computer and the tablet computer and he is also considered by some as the architect of the modern windowing GUI. A recent development is the open source Squeak dynamic media software.After 10 years at Xerox PARC, Kay was Atari's chief scientist for three years. Starting in 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe, Kay was a Fellow at Apple Computer. He then joined Walt Disney Imagineering as a Disney Fellow , currently he is a Senior Fellow at HP and the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute .
Alan is a professor at UCLA.
In 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co Alan Kay received:
The ACM Turing AwardTuring Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer f for his work on object oriented programming.
The Kyoto Prize .
The Charles Stark DraperCharles Stark Draper (born October 2, 1901) is often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation. Born in Windsor, Missouri, he attended the University of Missouri in 1917, Stanford University, California in 1919, and MIT in 1922. While at MIT, he f Prize along with Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor and Charles P. Thacker
Kay has a Bachelor's degreeA bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course that generally lasts three or four years. Note that some postgraduate degrees are entitled Bachelor of. the University of Oxford Bachelor of Civil Law. Honours degrees In in Mathematics and Molecular Biology from the University of Colorado, and a Master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Utah.
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