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Kay, Alan (Alan Curtis), 1940-

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Personal name headingKay, Alan (Alan Curtis), 1940-
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Variant(s)Kay, Alan, 1940-
Kay, Alan C. (Alan Curtis), 1940-
Kay, Alan Curtis, 1940-
Associated placeSalt Lake City (Utah) Palo Alto (Calif.) Glendale (Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date1940-05-17
Place of birthSpringfield (Mass.)
Field of activityComputer science
AffiliationUniversity of Utah Xerox Corporation. Palo Alto Research Center Apple Computer, Inc. Atari, Inc. Imagineers (Group)
Profession or occupationComputer scientists
Found inWorlds out of time, c1995: credits (Alan Curtis Kay)
WWW, October 15, 2007 Alan Kay webpage (Alan Kay; b. Springfield, Mass., May 17, 1940; conceiver of the laptop computer and the architect of the modern windowing GUI)
A dynamic medium for creative thought, 1970: title page (Alan C. Kay)
Wikipedia, viewed Oct. 15, 2015 (Alan Curtis Kay, computer scientist, pioneer of object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design; born May 17, 1940, Springfield, Mass.; Ph.D. from University of Utah Computer Science Dept. in 1966; has worked for Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center; Apple Inc., Atari, Walt Disney Imagineering, etc.)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay>
OCLC, reviewed Oct. 10, 2015 (headings: Kay, Alan; Kay, Alan, 1940-; Kay, Alan C.; Kay, Alan Curtis, Kay, Alan Curtis, 1940-; usage: Alan Kay, Alan C. Kay; Alan Curtis Kay)
Viewpoints Research Institute, view WWW, viewed Oct. 15, 2015 (Non-profit organization located in Glendale, California, founded in 2001 by Alan Kay; he is currently Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at UCLA)
   <http://vpri.org/html/people/founders.htm>
Associated languageeng