Lukol Directory: Computers: History: Pioneers: Kay, Alan

Teaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success
Five lessons on using technology to engage students, recharge teachers, and in some cases, change the world. [THE Journal]
http://www.thejournal.com/articles/18654/

Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier
By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk, Atari. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.html

mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography
An extensive list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.
http://www.mprove.de/diplom/referencesKay....

Kay + Hillis
Together, two legendary minds: Alan Kay, Danny Hillis. The result: a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of the future. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/ka...

Smalltalk with Object-Oriented Programming Pioneer Kay
Interview, on influences, history, rationale; laptops; advice. [SearchWebServices.com]
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/qn...

HP Feature Story: Alan Kay Biography
From former employer, Hewlett-Packard Development Co.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/feature_...

Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay
Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/378

Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay
Brief biography, old picture.
http://unrev.stanford.edu/presenters/alan_...

From Dynabook to Squeak: A Study in Survivals
Part of a historical research project, tracing the evolution of Alan Kay's Dynabook vision over 3+ decades; many links.
http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/Dynabook/

Alan Kay
Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay

Watch What I Do
A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration.
http://www.acypher.com/wwid/FrontMatter/

Alan Kay
Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTM...

ArtMuseum.net: Alan Kay | Interface 1972
Biography about Kay's views on interfaces, a few references, old PARC picture.
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Kay...

Alan Kay
The nearest thing to a personal page, at Squeakland site, biography with tiny photos of some early work.
http://www.squeakland.org/community/biogra...

MUF Mastery: Alan Kay
Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.
http://laurel.actlab.utexas.edu/~cynbe/muq...

Education in the Digital Age
Alan Kay talk, in streaming video.
http://www.csupomona.edu/%7eitac/mediavisi...

ACM1: Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet
Abstract of talk, brief biography, good sized picture.
http://www.acm.org/acm1/conference/docs/ka...

SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums
Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk.
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolli...

Predicting The Future
By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering]
http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/futures.h...

A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big Talk with the Creator of Smalltalk, and Much More
Historical perspective on personal computing, programming languages, from one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers. [ACM Queue]
http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Conte...

Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay
Smalltalk inventor speaks about computing today, and where it's going. [O'Reilly OpenP2P.com]
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/04/0...

Educom'98: Alan Kay: The Computer 'Revolution' Hasn't Happened Yet
RealVideo webcast from conference by EDUCAUSE nonprofit association with goal to advance higher education by promoting intelligent use of information technology.
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCOM1998/4925#ka...

Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay
Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links.
http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html

Sub Topics:
Smalltalk
Squeak


Related Topics:
Computers: E-Books
Computers: History: Pioneers: Papert, Seymour
Computers: History: Pioneers: Tesler, Lawrence
Computers: Programming: Languages: Object-Oriented
Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Graphic Subsystems: Desktop Environments
Reference: Education: Methods and Theories: Learning Theories: Constructivism



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