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Alan Kay Alive

Alan Kay
KindPerson
Born1940
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcewww.vpri.org ↗

Conceived the Dynabook and led Smalltalk at Xerox PARC — objects, overlapping windows, and the GUI the world copied.

Worked at Xerox PARC
Created A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages Smalltalk The Early History of Smalltalk

Conceived the Dynabook, led Smalltalk, and coined 'object-oriented' — though he means message-passing between encapsulated objects, not the inheritance-obsessed thing the industry built.\n\nTuring Award 2003. 'The best way to predict the future is to invent it' is his.

Sources

  1. vpri.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay