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Alan Curtis Kay (* 17. Mai 1940 [1] in Springfield, Massachusetts) ist ein amerikanischer Informatiker, der als Pionier in den Bereichen der objektorientierten Programmierung, Smalltalk, Squeak und der Gestaltung grafischer Benutzeroberflächen gilt.
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface.
Die Zukunft erfinden. „Die beste Art, die Zukunft vorherzusagen ist, sie zu erfinden“, soll Alan Curtis Kay einmal gesagt haben und tat genau das.
13. Mai 2024 · Alan Kay (born May 17, 1940, Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American computer scientist and winner of the 2003 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his contributions to object-oriented programming languages, including Smalltalk, and to personal computing.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Alan Curtis Kay was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on May 17, 1940. His father designed arm and leg prostheses, and his mother, a musician, taught Alan how to play. Kay grew up in an environment of art, literature, and science.
Computing pioneer Alan Curtis Kay, creator of the "Smalltalk" programming language, was born in 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Australia where they lived for a few years before moving permanently back to the United States.
In the second half of the 1960s, when the mainstream trend was toward ever larger computers, Dr. Kay proposed the concept of the personal computer as a tool to support the intellectual work of individuals, and so initiated a paradigm shift in the computer world.
