Alan Kay Quotes


I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program.


Citations

Kay, Alan. "A Conversation with Alan Kay." ACM Queue, vol. 2, no. 9, Dec. 2004, p. 20.

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Alan Kay
Alan Kay
  • Born: May 17, 1940
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist. 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 is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design.