Kids using Dynabooks, in a drawing from Alan Kay's 1972 paper "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages"Alan Kay Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries ...

Computer scientist Alan Kay who pioneered the personal computer has listed his Los Angeles home of 30 years for $7 million. Alan Kay, who’s been referred to as one of the “fathers of the personal ...

Among the first to realize the potential of a computer that could be used by individuals and learning students, Alan Kay has been awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for his life’s work at the Xerox Palo ...

of the puzzle he first set out to explore in his graduate thesis: the challenges and opportunities of personal computing. It's not the chips and code in PCs that fascinate Kay, though he has a ...

Kay, 62, will research and develop new software platforms, the company said Tuesday. Underlying code will be shared in the same fashion as the open-source Linux operating system. In recent years, Kay ...

Computing legend and former Apple Fellow Alan Kay has kindly written a detailed note explaining a comment he made at CES, facetiously reported here. Looking for a newsy nugget from Kay’s complex talk, ...

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories hires Alan Kay, who helped invent major computing technologies such as object-oriented programming and the predecessor to modern graphical interfaces. Stephen Shankland ...

They were a group of young, scrappy, but brilliant University of Utah computer science students and professors who changed the world. Ed Catmull. John Warnock. Jim Clark. Alan Kay. Ivan Sutherland.