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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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Beloved husband of the late Kathleen, much loved dad of Lynn, Kay, Alan and Keith, also a dear father in law, grandad and great grandad and a dearly loved partner of Joyce.
DEATHS by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
The club members taking part are: Martin Traill, Mike Goldsbrough, Dave Moss, Ian Beattie, Sion Lewis-Jones, Frank Ward, Brian Woolrich, Greg Kay, Alan Robinson, Tony Salt, Steve Upham and Richie Watson.
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Peter Kay, Alan Partridge, Friends Wear in bed: Hot pants and a little vest top Dating history: I was in a relationship for two and a half years.
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