Alan Kay
Computer Scientist & Visionary | Inventing the Personal Computer
Most recently at TED in 2007.
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Alan Kay is a pioneering computer scientist and visionary whose ideas shaped the personal computer revolution. As a researcher at Xerox PARC, he conceived the Dynabook, an early precursor to the modern laptop.
Kay's work on object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces laid the foundations for technologies we use every day. A former professor at the University of Utah and now a senior fellow at the Viewpoints Research Institute, Kay's keynotes blend technical depth with a profound understanding of how innovation transforms human potential.
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A powerful idea about ideas
With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -- mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can.
1 talk, all in 2007
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