See also:
MUF Mastery: Alan Kay
laurel.actlab.utexas.edu
Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.
Alan Kay: The PC Must be Revamped, Now
cioinsight.com
PCs should help people learn, not merely perform tasks, the prize-winning computer scientist says. CIO Insight. (February 14, 2007)
Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay
openp2p.com
Smalltalk inventor speaks about computing today, and where it's going. [O'Reilly OpenP2P.com] (April 3, 2003)
Report on OOPSLA97
www-static.cc.gatech.edu
Summaries of Alan Kay keynote talk, Squeak Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting, Squeak paper talk. By Mark Guzdial.
From Dynabook to Squeak: A Study in Survivals
thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca
Part of a historical research project, tracing the evolution of Alan Kay's Dynabook vision over 3+ decades; many links.
Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas
windley.com
Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria. (February 23, 2006)
mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography
mprove.de
A list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.
SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums
wheels.org
Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk. (December 7, 1972)
Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay
wiki.squeak.org
Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.
The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Invent It: It Is Not Just Smalltalk
hwswworld.com
Brief interview, covers history, art, education; System Design Frontier, Frontier Channels.
Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay
unrev.stanford.edu
Brief biography, old picture.
Alan Kay on Computing
archives.emergic.org
Brief critique of current state of computing. Fortune. (July 15, 2004)
Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier
rheingold.com
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. (June, 1985)
Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming
lambda-the-ultimate.org
Brief citation, many forum comments. Lambda the Ultimate. (February 2, 2007)
A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big Talk with the Creator of Smalltalk, and Much More
acmqueue.com
Historical perspective on personal computing, programming languages, from one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers. [ACM Queue] (December, 2004)
Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke
piumarta.com
Describes new way to build programming languages, systems, environments, applications. By Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. [PDF]
Alan Kay
ei.cs.vt.edu
Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution.
Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay
smalltalk.org
Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links.
Predicting The Future
ecotopia.com
By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering]
ArtMuseum.net: Alan Kay | Interface 1972
artmuseum.net
Biography about Kay's views on interfaces, a few references, old PARC picture.
