Editing Alan Kay (section)

== Awards and honors ==
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Kay has received many awards and honors, including:
* UdK 01-Award in [[Berlin]], Germany for pioneering the [[Graphical user interface|GUI]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.udk-berlin.de/doku/award.html |title=UdK 01-Award |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050528012338/http://www.udk-berlin.de/doku/award.html |archive-date=May 28, 2005}}</ref> J-D Warnier Prix D'Informatique; NEC C&C Prize (2001)
* Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado (2002)
* ACM [[Turing Award]] "For pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing"<ref name="turingaward"/> (2003)
* [[Kyoto Prize]]; [[Charles Stark Draper Prize]] with [[Butler W. Lampson]], [[Robert Taylor (computer scientist)|Robert W. Taylor]] and [[Charles P. Thacker]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nae.edu/Activities/Projects/Awards/DraperPrize/PastWinners/page20048879.aspx |title=2004 Recipients of the Charles Stark Draper Prize |work=National Academy of Engineering |publisher=National Academy of Sciences}}</ref> (2004)
* UPE [[Abacus]] Award, for individuals who have provided extensive support and leadership for student-related activities in the computing and information disciplines (2012)
* Honorary doctorates:
:– [[Royal Institute of Technology|Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan]] (Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kth.se/om/fame/hedersdoktorer/1.3974?l=en |title=Hedersdoktorer 2008-1995, inklusive ämnesområden |publisher=[[Royal Institute of Technology|KTH]] |language=sv |access-date=June 7, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109102006/http://www.kth.se/om/fame/hedersdoktorer/1.3974?l=en |archive-date=January 9, 2009}}</ref> (2002)
:– [[Georgia Institute of Technology]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/05/dec/19/dec19.pdf |title=Tech forms dual-degree program with Chinese university |date=December 19, 2005 |work=The Whistle |publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701235129/http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/05/dec/19/dec19.pdf|archive-date=July 1, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> (2005)
:– [[Columbia College Chicago]] awarded Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web3.colum.edu/press_releases/archives/005315.php |title=Columbia College Chicago Announces 2005 Commencement Ceremonies |date=May 10, 2005 |publisher=Columbia College Chicago |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320164915/http://web3.colum.edu/press_releases/archives/005315.php |archive-date=March 20, 2012}}</ref> (2005)
:– Laurea Honoris Causa in Informatica, [[Università di Pisa]], Italy (2007)
:– [[University of Waterloo]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=4973 |title=UW's convocation graduates 4,378 students, awards 10 honorary degrees |publisher=[[University of Waterloo]] |date=June 10, 2008 |access-date=June 7, 2009}}</ref> (2008)
:– [[Kyoto University]] (2009)
:– [[Universidad de Murcia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.um.es/informatica/index.php?pagina=doctor_honoris_causa_alan_kay |work=Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia|title=Alan Curtis Kay: Doctor Honoris Causa|year=2010}}</ref> (2010)
:– [[University of Edinburgh]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/news-events/stories/alan-kay-receives-honorary-degree-from-informatics |work=School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh|title=Alan Kay receives an honorary degree from the School of Informatics|year=2017}}</ref> (2017)
* <!-- 2004? --> Honorary Professor, [[Berlin University of the Arts]]
* Elected fellow of:
:– American Academy of Arts and Sciences
:– [[National Academy of Engineering]] for inventing the concept of portable personal computing. (1997)
:– Royal Society of Arts
:– Computer History Museum "for his fundamental contributions to personal computing and human-computer interface development."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Alan,Kay/ |title=Alan Kay: 1999 Fellow Awards Recipient |publisher=Computer History Museum |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003012618/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Alan,Kay/ |archive-date=October 3, 2012}}</ref> (1999)
:– Association for Computing Machinery "For fundamental contributions to personal computing and object-oriented programming."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/kay_3972189 |title=ACM Fellows|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|year=2008}}</ref> (2008)
:– [[Hasso Plattner Institute]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/news/beitrag/-9f25d717d8.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724070627/http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/news/beitrag/-9f25d717d8.html|archive-date=July 24, 2011|url-status=dead|title=Alan Kay as HPI fellow appreciated |date=July 21, 2011|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029/ |title=Programming and Scaling |last1=Kay |first1=Alan |date=July 21, 2011 |publisher=HPI Potsdam |location=Germany, Potsdam, Hasso-Plattner Institute}}</ref> (2011)

His other honors include the J-D Warnier Prix d'Informatique, the ACM Systems Software Award, the NEC Computers & Communication Foundation Prize, the Funai Foundation Prize, the Lewis Branscomb Technology Award, and the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.