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A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big talk with the creator of smalltalk - and much more

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Queue, Volume 2, Issue 9

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1039511.1039523

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When you want to gain a historical perspective on personal computing and programming languages, why not turn to one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers? That would be Alan Kay, winner of last year’s Turing Award for leading the team that invented Smalltalk, as well as for his fundamental contributions to personal computing. Kay was one of the founders of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he led one of several groups that together developed modern workstations (and the forerunners of the Macintosh), Smalltalk, the overlapping window interface, desktop publishing, the Ethernet, laser printing, and network client-servers.

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A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big talk with the creator of smalltalk - and much more
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. History of computing
      1. History of hardware
      2. History of software
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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Programming Languages

December/January 2004-2005

65 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1039511

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