Alan kay

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Alan kay
By Hee-Jin Lee
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Career

• BA in mathematics and molecular biology from the
  University of Colorado
• Ph.D for the development of the first graphical
  object-oriented personal computer
• participated in the original design of the
  ARPANet
• One of the founders of the Xerox Palo Alto
  Research Center
• Chief Scientist of Atari
• Fellow of Apple Computer
• Vice President of Research and Development at
  The Walt Disney Company
• Founder of Viewpoints Research Institute
• Hewlett-Packard Co. as a Senior Fellow

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Awards, Fellowship and Honors

• Turing Award(2003)
• Draper Prize from the National Academy of
  Engineering
• Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
• ACM Software Systems Award
• the ACM Outstanding Educator Award
• the J-D Warnier Prix D'Informatique and the NEC
  2001 CC Prize
• ZeroOne Award from the University of Berlin
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
  Sciences
• Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
• Fellow of the Computer Museum History Center
• honorary doctorate degree from the Royal
  Institute of Technology (KTH)
• Utah Information Technology Association (UITA)
  as a "Hall of Fame Member, November 2003

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GUI

• At Xerox PARC, led one of the several groups
  that together developed modern workstations (and
  the forerunners of the Macintosh)
• bitmap display
• overlapping-window interface

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FLEX Machine(1967)

• Very early modern desktop machine
• Personal computer
• Display
• Pointing and drawing tablet
• Multiple window graphical user interface
• The first object oriented operating system

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Dynabook(1968)

• Personal computer for children of all ages
• In the form of a very portable notebook
• flat-screen, stylus, wireless network, and local
  storage
• Computers might one day replace book
• Dynamic medium for creative thought
• Forerunner of Laptop computer

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SmallTalk(early 70s)

• the first complete dynamic object oriented
  language
• generally released as Smalltalk-80
• influence on the development of many other
  computer languages, including Objective-C,
  Actor, Java and Ruvy

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Squeak

• A programming system making delightful and
  powerful educational applets
• highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation
• virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk
• Open source
• www.squeak.org

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Croquet Project

• combination of open source computer software and
  network architecture that supports deep
  collaboration and resource sharing among large
  numbers of users
• Based on Squeak
• www.opencroquet.org

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ACM1Beyond Cyber Space 2001

• No media revolution can be said to have happened
  without a general establishment of "literacy"
  fluent "reading" and "writing" at the highest
  level of ideas that the medium can represent.
  With computers, we are so far from that fluent
  literacy -- or even understanding what that
  literacy should resemble -- that we could claim
  that the computer revolution hasn't even started.

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"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to
do The best way to predict the future is to
invent it. Really smart people with reasonable
funding can do just about anything that doesn't
violate too many of Newton's Laws!"
Alan Kay in
1971,