| A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big Talk with the Creator of Smalltalk, and Much More: Historical perspective on personal computing, programming languages, from one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers. [ACM Queue] |
| ACM1: Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet: Abstract of talk, brief biography, good sized picture. |
| Alan Kay: Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution. |
| Alan Kay: Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia] |
| Alan Kay: The nearest thing to a personal page, at Squeakland site, biography with tiny photos of some early work. |
| Alan Kay on Computing: Brief critique of current state of computing. Fortune. |
| ArtMuseum.net: Alan Kay | Interface 1972: Biography about Kay's views on interfaces, a few references, old PARC picture. |
| Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay: Smalltalk inventor speaks about computing today, and where it's going. [O'Reilly OpenP2P.com] |
| Education in the Digital Age: Alan Kay talk, in streaming video. |
| Educom'98: Alan Kay: The Computer 'Revolution' Hasn't Happened Yet: RealVideo webcast from conference by EDUCAUSE nonprofit association with goal to advance higher education by promoting intelligent use of information technology. |
| Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay: Brief biography, old picture. |
| From Dynabook to Squeak: A Study in Survivals: Part of a historical research project, tracing the evolution of Alan Kay's Dynabook vision over 3+ decades; many links. |
| HP Feature Story: Alan Kay Biography: From former employer, Hewlett-Packard Development Co. |
| Kay + Hillis: Together, two legendary minds: Alan Kay, Danny Hillis. The result: a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of the future. [Wired] |
| mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography: An extensive list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis. |
| MUF Mastery: Alan Kay: Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments. |
| Predicting The Future: By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering] |
| Smalltalk with Object-Oriented Programming Pioneer Kay: Interview, on influences, history, rationale; laptops; advice. [SearchWebServices.com] |
| Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay: Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links. |
| SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums: Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk. |
| Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay: Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information. |
| Teaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success: Five lessons on using technology to engage students, recharge teachers, and in some cases, change the world. [THE Journal] |
| Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier: By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk, Atari. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews. |
| Watch What I Do: A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration. |
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