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Kay, Alan

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Kay, Alan (1940– )

US computing expert who became a key figure in the development of graphical user interfaces (later popularized by the Apple Macintosh) and object-oriented languages (Smalltalk) while working at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) throughout the 1970s. Kay also came up with the inspirational idea of the DynaBook, a sort of computer-based personal digital assistant. Kay spent 1984–96 as an Apple Fellow, working mainly on future-oriented projects with children. In 1996 he joined Walt Disney Imagineering as a Disney Fellow and after this program was ended by Disney, he set up the Viewpoints Research Institute and in 2007 was head of the institute.



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