Musicians · b. 1940
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
- Born
- 17 May 1940
Springfield - Country
- United States
Biography
Alan Kay is a jazz musician. Alan Kay was born on 17 May 1940 in Springfield. Honours include ACM Software System Award (1987), Computer History Museum Fellow (1999) and honorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology (2002).
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist who pioneered 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. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the early versions of the language and coining the term "object-oriented." He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He received the Turing Award in 2003.
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Awards
- 1987 ACM Software System Award
- 1999 Computer History Museum Fellow
- 2002 honorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology
- 2003 Turing Award
- 2004 Charles Stark Draper Prize
- 2004 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
- 2008 ACM Fellow
- 2008 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2010 honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia
Frequently asked questions
When and where was Alan Kay born?
Alan Kay was born 17 May 1940 in Springfield.
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