Alan Kay

Alan Kay
Alan Kay holding the prototype of the Dynabook
Born
Alan Curtis Kay

(1940-05-17) May 17, 1940 (age 84)
EducationUniversity of Colorado at Boulder (BS)
University of Utah College of Engineering (MS, PhD)
Known forDynabook
Object-oriented programming
Smalltalk
Desktop metaphor
Graphical user interface
Windows
SpouseBonnie MacBird
AwardsACM Turing Award (2003)
Kyoto Prize
Charles Stark Draper Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsXerox PARC
Stanford University
Atari Inc.
Apple Inc. ATG
Walt Disney Imagineering
UCLA
Kyoto University
MIT
Viewpoints Research Institute
Hewlett-Packard Labs
ThesisFLEX: A Flexible Extendable Language (1968)
Doctoral advisorsDavid C. Evans
Robert S. Barton
Notable studentsDavid Canfield Smith

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. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the early versions of the language and coining the term "object-oriented." He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts.[2] He received the Turing award in 2003.[3]

  1. ^ "ACM Turing Award". 2003. published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012
  2. ^ Kay, Alan (1997). The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (Speech).
  3. ^ "Alan Kay | Biography, Inventions, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved May 1, 2023.