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Alan Kay on creativity, and the ebb and flow of programming languages
Alan Kay, by all accounts, is a Computer Science legend, and you can even count the notoriously hard to please Steve Jobs as one of his biggest fans. Kay’s resume speaks for itself, but some of his more notable achievements include helping drive the development of object oriented programming and the graphical user interfaces, along […]
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Friday, April 30, 2010
What you’re looking at above might seem like an early to mid-90’s predecessor to the iPad, but you might be surprised to learn that the device, called the Dynabook, was conceptualized in 1968 by famed computer scientist Alan Kay. The device was envisioned as an educational tool and was naturally geared towards children, as evidenced […]
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
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