ALAN KAY “THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO INVENT IT” Presented by: Brennen Taylor CSCE 221 – Spring 2014.

ALAN KAY

“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE

IS TO INVENT IT”

Presented by: Brennen TaylorCSCE 221 – Spring 2014

BEGINNINGS

• Born on May 17, 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts

• Father designed leg prostheses

• Mother was a musician

• Attended Brooklyn Technical High School

EARLY COMPUTER YEARS

• Introduced to computers when Kay entered the Air Force

• Started work with the IBM 1401

• First started thinking about Object-Oriented Code design

• Left Air Force to attend college

• Undergraduate Degree At University of Colorado in 1966

• Mathematics

• Molecular Biology

GRADUATE YEARS

• Moved to University of Colorado

• Masters degree in electrical engineering

• Ph. D. in computer science in 1969

• Contributed to ARPA research

• Designed FLEX and published “Reactive Engine” thesis

• Influenced by Douglas Engelbart’s “Mother of all Demos”

• GUI interface

• Hypertext

• Mouse interaction

RESEARCH AT PARC

• Hired at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

• Designed Dynabook

• Touch screen

• Keyboard

• Designed and created SmallTalk

• First Object-Oriented language

• Ran on Alto computer

AFTER PARC

• Worked for Atari in 1983

• Joined Apple in 1984

• Developed Squeak

• Moved to Disney’s Imagineering Division in 1997

• Continues to work on Squeak

• Actively works to get a personal computer for all children

• One Laptop Per Child Program

• Viewpoints Research Institute

AWARDS AND HONORS

• ACM Software Systems Award

• J-D Warnier Prix D'Informatique (2001)

• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Fellow of National Academy of Engineering

• Won ACM Turing Award in 2003

• Pioneering ideas at root of object oriented programming

• Leading Smalltalk development team

• Fundamental contributions to personal computing

• Kyoto Prize in 2004

CITATION

• http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/kay_3972189.cfm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xerox_Alto.jpg

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dynabook.png

• http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nexusae0_Alan_Kay_and_the_prototype_of_Dynabook_pt._5_3010032738.jpg

• http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Alan,Kay/