Google
×
Alan Kay

Alan Kay

American computer scientist
Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed... Wikipedia
Born: 1940 (age 83 years), Springfield, MA
Spouse: Bonnie MacBird (m. 1983)
Awards: ACM Turing Award (2003); Kyoto Prize; Charles Stark Draper Prize
Known for: Dynabook; Object-oriented programming; Smalltalk; Desktop metaphor; Graphical user interface; Windows