Alan Kay
Name:
Alan Curtis Kay
Born: May 17, 1940
Computer related contributions
- Help create the idea of a laptop computer with his Dynabook prototype while at Xerox PARC
- Helped develop the overlapping windowing graphical user interface GUI while at Xerox PARC.
- Helped develop Ethernet, Laser Printing, and the Client-Server network model.
- Helped develop Smalltalk while at Xerox PARC.
- Help develop the Dynabook concept that helped pave the wave for laptop and tablet style computers.
Honors and awards
- ACM Turing Award
- Kyoto Prize
- Charles Stark Draper Prize
Related computer pioneers
Quotes
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
"Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves."