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Alan Kay

Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming".

Date of birth: 17 May 1940 edit

Current residence: Brentwood, California edit

Important software Alan Kay has worked on:

• Croquet
• Smalltalk-72
• Smalltalk-80
• Squeak

Timeline:

Links to and from Wikipedia entry (as of 2008-07-24 22:33:11 GMT):

• Wikipedia entry
• Alan Kay TED Talk - A powerful idea about teaching ideas
• Alan Kay biography
• Detailed Alan Kay bibliography
• Personal Dynamic Media
• ''A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing''
• Doing with Images Makes Symbols: Communicating with Computers
• The Computer "Revolution" Hasn't Happened Yet!
• Predicting the Future
• Education in the Digital Age
• A Conversation with Alan Kay
• From Dynabook to Squeak - A Study in Survivals
• The Early History of Smalltalk
• The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Prevent It
• The $100 Laptop, Learners, and Powerful Ideas
• Diamond Management and Technology Consultants
• Viewpoints Research Institute
• Transcript: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet, OOPSLA 1997
• Alan Kay's Viewpoints from Black and White Program
• Alan Kay on Education (His comments on Mark Guzdial Blog)

Some handy Google links:

• Alan Kay
• Alan Kay interview

Collected links:

• TED talk
• Object orientation
• Stuart Feldman interview
• Video about Education and Technology
• Phil Windley's notes on an Alan Kay presentation
• Cory Doctorow's notes on a Kay talk with some follow on from Kay and Deutsch
• OLPC in Peru
• Software System Award for Smalltalk
• Blog post about OLPC
• Stewart Brand's Rolling Stone article
• The Power of Context
• CRN Profile on Alan Kay
• 2007 CIO Insight interview
• Wikipedia entry
• Basic information about Smalltalk.
• Squeak is like an OS blog post
• Video Interview with Alan Kay
• The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet

Books:

• Smalltalk 80: The Language by Adele Goldberg and David Robson (1989)
• Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck (1996)

Articles and Papers: