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» A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big Talk with the Creator of Smalltalk, and Much More - Historical perspective on personal computing, programming languages, from one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers. [ACM Queue]
» ACM1: Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet - Abstract of talk, brief biography, good sized picture.
» Alan Kay - Brief biography, tiny photos of some early work. Squeakland.
» Alan Kay on Computing - Brief critique of current state of computing. Fortune.
» Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron? - Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria.
» Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas - Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria.
» Alan Kay: The PC Must be Revamped, Now - PCs should help people learn, not merely perform tasks, the prize-winning computer scientist says. CIO Insight.
» ArtMuseum.net: Alan Kay | Interface 1972 - Biography about Kay's views on interfaces, a few references, old PARC picture.
» Board-of-Directors: Alan Kay - Brief biography, photograph. Diamond Management & Technology Consultants.
» Building Your Own Dynamic Language is Fun and Easy - 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.
» Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay - Smalltalk inventor speaks about computing today, and where it's going. [O'Reilly OpenP2P.com]
» Education in the Digital Age - Alan Kay talk, in streaming video.
» Educom'98: Alan Kay: The Computer 'Revolution' Hasn't Happened Yet - RealVideo webcast from conference by EDUCAUSE nonprofit association with goal to advance higher education by promoting intelligent use of information technology.
» Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay - Brief biography, old picture.
» From Dynabook to Squeak: A Study in Survivals - Part of a historical research project, tracing the evolution of Alan Kay's Dynabook vision over 3+ decades; many links.
» HP Feature Story: Alan Kay Biography - From former employer, Hewlett-Packard Development Co.
» How Simply and Understandably Could the Personal Computing Experience be Programmed? - Short summary of Reinventing Programming goals. Abstract for seminar at Intel Research, Berkeley, 27 November 2006.
» Kay + Hillis - Together, two legendary minds: Alan Kay, Danny Hillis. The result: a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of the future. [Wired]
» Lisa Rein's Tour of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation - 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.
» MUF Mastery: Alan Kay - Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.
» Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke - Describes new way to build programming languages, systems, environments, applications. By Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute.
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» Predicting The Future - By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering]
» Report on OOPSLA97 - Summaries of Alan Kay keynote talk, Squeak Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting, Squeak paper talk. By Mark Guzdial.
» SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums - Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk.
» Smalltalk with Object-Oriented Programming Pioneer Kay - Interview, on influences, history, rationale; laptops; advice. [SearchWebServices.com]
» Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay - Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links.
» Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay - Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.
» Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming - Brief citation, many forum comments. Lambda the Ultimate.
» Teaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success - Five lessons on using technology to engage students, recharge teachers, and in some cases, change the world. [THE Journal]
» The Most Important Idea in Computer Science - Many quotes, Lisp emphasis. Bill Clementson's Blog.
» Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier - 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.
» Watch What I Do - A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration.
» mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography - An extensive list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.
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