Alan Kay
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Person
- Born
- 1940-05-17
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 346
- Total plays
- 673
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5 total works indexed
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,693x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,639x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,002x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 17,808x
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Key facts
- Born
- Alan Curtis Kay , ( 1940-05-17 ) May 17, 1940 (age 86) , Springfield, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- University of Colorado, Boulder ( BS ), University of Utah ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Dynabook , Object-oriented programming , Smalltalk , Desktop metaphor , Graphical user interface , Windows
- Spouse
- Bonnie MacBird
- Awards
- ACM Turing Award (2003), Kyoto Prize , Charles Stark Draper Prize
- Fields
- Computer science
- Institutions
- Xerox PARC , Stanford University , Atari Inc. , Apple Inc. ATG , Walt Disney Imagineering , UCLA , Kyoto University , MIT , Viewpoints Research Institute , Hewlett-Packard Labs
- Thesis
- FLEX: A Flexible Extendable Language (1968)
- Doctoral advisors
- David C. Evans , Robert S. Barton
- Notable students
- David Canfield Smith
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Key dates
- Born
- 17 May 1940
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Springfield
- Spouse
- Bonnie MacBird
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- Brooklyn Technical High School
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert S. Barton
- Field of work
- computer science
Article
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist who pioneered 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. He received the Turing Award in 2003.
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