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Alan Kay - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
Growing article, with links to related topics. Wikipedia. |
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Viewpoints Research Institute - http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/
Nonprofit organization dedicated to improving general education and understanding of complex systems, more so by using new inventions in interactive constructive computing, directed by some of the most experienced researchers in computer science. California, USA. |
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Alan Kay - http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML
Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution. |
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SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums - http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html
Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk. |
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Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier - http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.html
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. |
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Lisa Rein's Tour of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation - http://www.lisarein.com/alankay/tour.html
Covers history, Smalltalk, Squeak, Etoys, late binding, Croquet; Sketchpad, PDP1 Spacewar, Lisp; Ivan Sutherland, Doug Englebart, John McCarthy; in text, photos, audio, video in different resolutions. Open Content, public domain. |
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Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming - http://irbseminars.intel-research.net/AlanKayNSF.pdf
A compact and practical model of personal computing as a self-exploratorium. Proposal to US National Science Foundation, NSF, granted 31 August 2006. |
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Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay - http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/378
Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information. |
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The Most Important Idea in Computer Science - http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.html
Many quotes, Lisp emphasis. Bill Clementson's Weblog. |
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Predicting The Future - http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/futures.htm
By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering] |
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Building Your Own Dynamic Language is Fun and Easy - http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/070214.html
Abstract, slide show, references, from First Steps on the Road to Reinventing Computing, by Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, 2007 Feb 14. |
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Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke - http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf
Describes new way to build programming languages, systems, environments, applications. By Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. |
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Kay + Hillis - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/kay.hillis_pr.html
Together, two legendary minds: Alan Kay, Danny Hillis. The result: a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of the future. [Wired] |
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Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2021/
Brief citation, many forum comments. Lambda the Ultimate. |
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Watch What I Do - http://www.acypher.com/wwid/FrontMatter/
A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration. |
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From Dynabook to Squeak: A Study in Survivals - http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/Dynabook/
Part of a historical research project, tracing the evolution of Alan Kay's Dynabook vision over 3+ decades; many links. |
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Smalltalk with Object-Oriented Programming Pioneer Kay - http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/interview/0,289202,sid26_gci962762,00.html
Interview, on influences, history, rationale; laptops; advice. [SearchWebServices.com] |
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The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Invent It: It Is Not Just Smalltalk - http://www.hwswworld.com/uploaddownload/interview/alan_kay_interview.php
Brief interview, covers history, art, education; System Design Frontier, Frontier Channels. |
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Teaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success - http://www.thejournal.com/articles/18654/
Five lessons on using technology to engage students, recharge teachers, and in some cases, change the world. [THE Journal] |
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Alan Kay on Computing - http://archives.emergic.org/archives/indi/009317.php
Brief critique of current state of computing. Fortune. |
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Alan Kay: The PC Must be Revamped, Now - http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Expert-Voices/Alan-Kay-The-PC-Must-Be-Revamped151Now/
PCs should help people learn, not merely perform tasks, the prize-winning computer scientist says. CIO Insight. |
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HP Converting Storied Garage into Recycling Center - http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2005/07/hp_converting_s.html
Story about HP firing many researchers, focused on Kay, with many reader comments. Good Morning Silicon Valley. |
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Board-of-Directors: Alan Kay - http://diamondconsultants.com/publicsite/people/team/?topic=board-of-directors&name=alan-kay
Brief biography, photograph. Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. |
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Report on OOPSLA97 - http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/oopsla.html
Summaries of Alan Kay keynote talk, Squeak Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting, Squeak paper talk. By Mark Guzdial. |