 Alan Kay - http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution. |
 Kay + Hillis - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/kay.hillis_pr.html Together, two legendary minds: Alan Kay, Danny Hillis. The result: a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of the future. [Wired] |
 Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier - http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.html 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. |
 Teaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success - http://www.thejournal.com/articles/18654/ Five lessons on using technology to engage students, recharge teachers, and in some cases, change the world. [THE Journal] |
 Predicting The Future - http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/futures.htm By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering] |
 SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums - http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk. |
 Smalltalk with Object-Oriented Programming Pioneer Kay - http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/interview/0,289202,sid26_gci962762,00.html Interview, on influences, history, rationale; laptops; advice. [SearchWebServices.com] |
 Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay - http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/378 Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information. |
 Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay - http://unrev.stanford.edu/presenters/alan_kay/alan_kay.html Brief biography, old picture. |
 Building Your Own Dynamic Language is Fun and Easy - http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/070214.html Abstract, slide show, references, from First Steps on the Road to Reinventing Computing, by Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, 2007 Feb 14. |
 Watch What I Do - http://www.acypher.com/wwid/FrontMatter/ A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration. |
 Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay - http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links. |
 ArtMuseum.net: Alan Kay | Interface 1972 - http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Kay.html Biography about Kay's views on interfaces, a few references, old PARC picture. |
 From Dynabook to Squeak: A Study in Survivals - http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/Dynabook/ Part of a historical research project, tracing the evolution of Alan Kay's Dynabook vision over 3+ decades; many links. |
 Alan Kay - http://www.squeakland.org/community/biography/alanbio.html Brief biography, tiny photos of some early work. Squeakland. |
 Viewpoints Research Institute - http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/ Nonprofit organization dedicated to improving general education and understanding of complex systems, more so by using new inventions in interactive constructive computing, directed by some of the most experienced researchers in computer science. California, USA. |
 Alan Kay: The PC Must be Revamped, Now - http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Expert-Voices/Alan-Kay-The-PC-Must-Be-Revamped151Now/ PCs should help people learn, not merely perform tasks, the prize-winning computer scientist says. CIO Insight. |
 Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming - http://irbseminars.intel-research.net/AlanKayNSF.pdf A compact and practical model of personal computing as a self-exploratorium. Proposal to US National Science Foundation, NSF, granted 31 August 2006. |
 A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big Talk with the Creator of Smalltalk, and Much More - http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273 Historical perspective on personal computing, programming languages, from one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers. [ACM Queue] |
 mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography - http://www.mprove.de/diplom/referencesKay.html A list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis. |
 Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay - http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/04/03/alan_kay.html Smalltalk inventor speaks about computing today, and where it's going. [O'Reilly OpenP2P.com] |
 Report on OOPSLA97 - http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/oopsla.html Summaries of Alan Kay keynote talk, Squeak Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting, Squeak paper talk. By Mark Guzdial. |
 MUF Mastery: Alan Kay - http://laurel.actlab.utexas.edu/~cynbe/muq/muf3_19.html Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments. |
 Alan Kay - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay Growing article, with links to related topics. Wikipedia. |
 Alan Kay on Computing - http://www.emergic.org/archives/indi/009317.php Brief critique of current state of computing. Fortune. |
 Lisa Rein's Tour of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation - http://www.lisarein.com/alankay/tour.html Covers history, Smalltalk, Squeak, Etoys, late binding, Croquet; Sketchpad, PDP1 Spacewar, Lisp; Ivan Sutherland, Doug Englebart, John McCarthy; in text, photos, audio, video in different resolutions. Open Content, public domain. |
 The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Invent It: It Is Not Just Smalltalk - http://www.hwswworld.com/uploaddownload/interview/alan_kay_interview.php Brief interview, covers history, art, education; System Design Frontier, Frontier Channels. |
 Board-of-Directors: Alan Kay - http://diamondconsultants.com/publicsite/people/team/?topic=board-of-directors&name=alan-kay Brief biography, photograph. Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. |
 HP Converting Storied Garage into Recycling Center - http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2005/07/hp_converting_s.html Story about HP firing many researchers, focused on Kay, with many reader comments. Good Morning Silicon Valley. |
 Education in the Digital Age - http://video.csupomona.edu/streaming/tae/eda_index.html Alan Kay talk, in streaming video. |
 Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2021/ Brief citation, many forum comments. Lambda the Ultimate. |
 Educom'98: Alan Kay: The Computer 'Revolution' Hasn't Happened Yet - http://www.educause.edu/EDUCOM1998/4925#kay RealVideo webcast from conference by EDUCAUSE nonprofit association with goal to advance higher education by promoting intelligent use of information technology. |
 Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas - http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_the_10.shtml Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria. |
 Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron? - http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_is_com.shtml Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria. |
 The Most Important Idea in Computer Science - http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.html Many quotes, Lisp emphasis. Bill Clementson's Weblog. |
 Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke - http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf Describes new way to build programming languages, systems, environments, applications. By Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. |