Editing Alan Kay (section)

{{Short description|American computer scientist (born 1940)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Alan Kay
| birth_name        = Alan Curtis Kay
| image             = Alan Kay and the prototype of the Dynabook (3009206205).jpg
| caption           = Alan Kay holding the prototype of the [[Dynabook]]
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1940|05|17}}
| birth_place       = [[Springfield, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date        = 
| death_place       = 
| fields            = [[Computer science]]
| workplaces        = [[PARC (company)|Xerox PARC]]<br/>[[Stanford University]]<br/>[[Atari Inc.]]<br/>[[Apple Inc.]] [[Apple Advanced Technology Group|ATG]]<br/>[[Walt Disney Imagineering]]<br/>[[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]]<br/>[[Kyoto University]]<br/>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]<br/>[[Viewpoints Research Institute]]<br/>[[Hewlett-Packard]] [[HP Labs|Labs]]
| education         = [[University of Colorado, Boulder]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[University of Utah]] ([[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| thesis_title      = FLEX: A Flexible Extendable Language
| thesis_url        = https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0761962.pdf
| thesis_year       = 1968
| doctoral_advisors = [[David C. Evans (computer scientist)|David C. Evans]]<br/>[[Robert S. Barton]]
| academic_advisors = 
| doctoral_students = 
| notable_students  = [[David Canfield Smith]]
| known_for         = [[Dynabook]]<br/>[[Object-oriented programming]]<br/>[[Smalltalk]]<br/>[[Desktop metaphor]] <br/>[[Graphical user interface]]<br/>[[Window (computing)|Windows]]
| influences        = 
| influenced        = 
| awards            = ACM [[Turing Award]] (2003)<br/>[[Kyoto Prize]]<br/>[[Charles Stark Draper Prize]]
| spouse            = [[Bonnie MacBird]]
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}}

'''Alan Curtis Kay''' (born May 17, 1940)<ref name="turingaward">{{cite web |url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/kay_3972189.cfm |title=ACM Turing Award |year=2003}} published by the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] 2012</ref> is an American [[computer scientist]] who pioneered work on [[object-oriented programming]] and [[Window (computing)|windowing]] [[graphical user interface]] (GUI) design. At [[Xerox]] [[PARC (company)|PARC]] he led the design and development of the first modern windowed [[desktop metaphor|computer desktop]] interface.  There he also led the development of the influential [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] [[programming language]] [[Smalltalk]], both personally designing most of the early versions of the language and coining the term "object-oriented."
He has been elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the [[National Academy of Engineering]], and the [[Royal Society of Arts]].<ref>{{cite speech |last=Kay |first=Alan |year=1997 |url=http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/9697spr/node10.html |title=The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet}}</ref>  He received the [[Turing Award]] in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alan Kay {{!}} Biography, Inventions, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Kay |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>