One Laptop Per Child / Xerox / NEC / Atari / HP / /
Country
Canada / Sweden / Spain / /
Currency
USD / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
the Charles Stark Draper Prize / /
Facility
Columbia College / University of Murcia / Viewpoints Research Institute / University of Waterloo / Xerox Palo Alto Research Center / Computer History Museum / University of Utah / University of Pisa / Windows GUI Desktop Pub At Viewpoints Research Institute / University of Colorado / /
IndustryTerm
desk-top media / word processing / personal computing / peer-peer networking / computing / software creation / /
OperatingSystem
Microsoft Windows / /
Organization
UCLA / University of Utah / Inamori Foundation / National Academy of Engineering / American Academy of Arts and Sciences / American Association for the Advancement of Science / Association of Computing Machinery / Royal Society of Arts / University of Colorado / University of Waterloo in Ontario / University of Pisa in Italy / University of Murcia / Columbia College in Chicago / Viewpoints Research Institute / National Academy of Engineering1 / Association for Computing Machinery / /
Person
Dan Ingalls / Robert Taylor / Charles Thacker / Disney Fellow / Adele Goldberg / Lampson / Alan Kay Alan Kay / /
Position
professional jazz guitarist / Chief Scientist / co-designer / president / Butler / avid amateur classical pipe organist / Professor of Computer Science / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Smalltalk / /
ProvinceOrState
Utah / Colorado / Ontario / /
Technology
object-oriented programming / Ethernet / 3D graphics / operating system / animation / GUI / /
The best way to predict the future is to invent it! — Alan Kay Alan Kay is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been rec