Alan Kay

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computer scientist educator human researcher software engineer

Alan Kay is a pioneering computer scientist best known for his foundational work on object-oriented programming and the development of the graphical user interface.

Aliases (1)

Alan Curtis Kay ×1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	computer scientist → educator → human → researcher → software engineer →
awardReceived	ACM Software System Award → ACM Turing Award → Charles Stark Draper Prize → IEEE John von Neumann Medal → Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology → National Academy of Engineering membership → Royal Society of Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal →
dateOfBirth	1940-05-17 →
degree	Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Molecular Biology → PhD in Computer Science →
doctoralAdvisor	David C. Evans →
educatedAt	University of Colorado Boulder → University of Utah →
employer	Apple Computer → Atari → Hewlett-Packard → University of Utah → Viewpoints Research Institute → Walt Disney Imagineering → Xerox PARC →
familyName	Kay →
fieldOfWork	computer science → education → human–computer interaction → programming languages → software engineering →
givenName	Alan →
influenced	Adele Goldberg → computer education research → modern object-oriented programming languages →
influencedBy	Douglas Engelbart → Ivan Sutherland → Seymour Papert →
knownFor	Dynabook concept → Smalltalk programming language → Squeak programming system → Xerox Alto → educational computing → graphical user interface → object-oriented programming → personal computing →
memberOf	ACM → American Academy of Arts and Sciences → National Academy of Engineering →
name	Alan Curtis Kay →
nationality	United States of America →
notableIdea	“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” →
notableWork	Dynabook proposal → Smalltalk-72 → Smalltalk-76 → Smalltalk-80 →
placeOfBirth	Springfield, Massachusetts, United States →
positionHeld	Apple Fellow → Disney Fellow → Fellow at Xerox PARC → Senior Fellow at Hewlett-Packard →
residence	California, United States →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Smalltalk →	designedBy
Ivan Sutherland →	doctoralStudent
One Laptop per Child →	foundedBy
Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award →	hasNotableRecipient
Alan Kay ("Alan Curtis Kay") →	name
Xerox →	notableEmployee