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      Early advocate of using graphics for computer user interfaces, and of using computers to educate children creatively (*NOT* by wrote memory via drillware), one of the creators of object-oriented programming, leader in the creation of Smalltalk and the personal computer. Now working on Squeak and related software.

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      Alan Kay

      Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution.
      http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML

      Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay

      Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links.
      http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html

      Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay

      Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.
      http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/378

      ACM1: Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet

      Abstract of talk, brief biography, good sized picture.
      http://www.acm.org/acm1/conference/docs/kay.html

      ArtMuseum.net: Alan Kay | Interface <1972>

      Biography about Kay's views on interfaces, a few references, old PARC picture.
      http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Kay.html

      Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay

      Brief biography, old picture.
      http://unrev.stanford.edu/presenters/alan_kay/alan_kay.html

      MUF Mastery: Alan Kay

      Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.
      http://laurel.actlab.utexas.edu/~cynbe/muq/muf3_19.html

      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.
      http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.html

      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.
      http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

      mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography

      An extensive list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.
      http://www.mprove.de/diplom/referencesKay.html
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