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Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution.
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.
Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk.
A list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.
RealVideo webcast from conference by EDUCAUSE nonprofit association with goal to advance higher education by promoting intelligent use of information technology.
Growing article, with links to related topics. Wikipedia.
By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering]
A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration.
Smalltalk inventor speaks about computing today, and where it's going. [O'Reilly OpenP2P.com]
Brief citation, many forum comments. Lambda the Ultimate.
Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria.
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.
Describes new way to build programming languages, systems, environments, applications. By Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute.
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.
Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.