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Name: Alan C. Kay
Birth Date: 1940
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: computer scientist

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Alan C. Kay has been called the father of the personal computer in acknowledgment of his many contributions to the field of personal computing. His concept of the Dynabook lap-top computer was the inspiration of Alto, a forerunner of the Apple and...


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Alan Curtis Kay (born 1940-05-17 ) is an American computer scientist known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. Sourced The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Source:...


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American computer scientist who helped develop a number of commonly used computer features, notably the graphical user interface (GUI) system. While working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Kay helped design GUI, the user-friendly...
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Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an...


 

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