PERSON
Alan Kay
Led the development of Smalltalk at Xerox PARC and articulated much of object-oriented programming as a discipline. In the 1970s he proposed the Dynabook, a tablet-form personal computer that prefigured later laptops and tablets. ACM Turing Award, 2003. Known for the line, 'The best way to predict the future is to invent it.'
Profile
- Born
- 1940
- Status
- Living
- Span
- 86 years
- Appearances
- 01
- Name
- ENAlan KayJAアラン・ケイ
Appearances
- 1980Smalltalk-80 — The Canonical Object-Oriented LanguageDeveloped at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, and others, Smalltalk was released externally as Smalltalk-80. Everything an object, message passing as the only operation—the pure object-oriented design directly or indirectly shaped the object models of Objective-C, Ruby, Java, C#, and many of the major languages that followed.