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Alan Kay

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]

For other people named Alan Kay, see Alan Kay (disambiguation).

Kay is also a former professional jazz guitarist, composer, and theatrical designer. He also is an amateur classical pipe organist.

UdK 01-Award in , Germany for pioneering the GUI;[19] J-D Warnier Prix D'Informatique; NEC C&C Prize (2001)

Berlin

Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado (2002)

ACM "For pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing"[1] (2003)

Turing Award

UPE Award, for individuals who have provided extensive support and leadership for student-related activities in the computing and information disciplines (2012)

Abacus

Honorary doctorates:

Kay has received many awards and honors, including:


His other honors include the J-D Warnier Prix d'Informatique, the ACM Systems Software Award, the NEC Computers & Communication Foundation Prize, the Funai Foundation Prize, the Lewis Branscomb Technology Award, and the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.

List of pioneers in computer science

Viewpoints Research Institute

at TED

Alan Kay

"There is no information content in Alan Kay" 2012

an unpublished book, by Charles H. Moore, June 1970

Programming a problem-oriented language