Open Directory - Computers: History: Pioneers: Kay, Alan
See also: - Nonprofit organization dedicated to improving general education and understanding of complex systems, more so by using new inventions in interactive constructive computing, directed by some of the most experienced researchers in computer science. California, USA. - Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution. - Growing article, with links to related topics. Wikipedia. - Brief biography, photograph. Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. - Abstract, slide show, references, from First Steps on the Road to Reinventing Computing, by Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, 2007 Feb 14. - Brief biography, old picture. - Part of a historical research project, tracing the evolution of Alan Kay's Dynabook vision over 3+ decades; many links. - Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments. - Describes new way to build programming languages, systems, environments, applications. By Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. [PDF] - By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering] - Summaries of Alan Kay keynote talk, Squeak Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting, Squeak paper talk. By Mark Guzdial. - Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links. - Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information. - Brief interview, covers history, art, education; System Design Frontier, Frontier Channels. - Many quotes, Lisp emphasis. Bill Clementson's Weblog. - A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration. - A list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis. - PCs should help people learn, not merely perform tasks, the prize-winning computer scientist says. CIO Insight. (February 14, 2007) - Brief citation, many forum comments. Lambda the Ultimate. (February 02, 2007) - Five lessons on using technology to engage students, recharge teachers, and in some cases, change the world. [THE Journal] (June 01, 2006) - Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria. (February 23, 2006) - Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria. (February 23, 2006) - Historical perspective on personal computing, programming languages, from one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers. [ACM Queue] (December 01, 2004) - Brief critique of current state of computing. Fortune. (July 15, 2004) - Interview, on influences, history, rationale; laptops; advice. [SearchWebServices.com] (May 05, 2004) - Covers history, Smalltalk, Squeak, Etoys, late binding, Croquet; Sketchpad, PDP1 Spacewar, Lisp; Ivan Sutherland, Doug Englebart, John McCarthy; in text, photos, audio, video in different resolutions. Open Content, public domain. (May 09, 2003) - Smalltalk inventor speaks about computing today, and where it's going. [O'Reilly OpenP2P.com] (April 03, 2003) - RealVideo webcast from conference by EDUCAUSE nonprofit association with goal to advance higher education by promoting intelligent use of information technology. (October 15, 1998) - Together, two legendary minds: Alan Kay, Danny Hillis. The result: a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of the future. [Wired] (January 01, 1994) - By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk, Atari. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews. (June 01, 1985) - Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk. (December 07, 1972)
