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Pioneers: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

Pioneers: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

Update: 2021-09-16

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Alan Kay is a prolific computer scientist known by many as the “father of personal computers." He's best known for his work on object-oriented programming languages, windowing graphical user interface design (also known as GUIs) and for leading the team that developed Smalltalk.

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Pioneers: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

Pioneers: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

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