Computing Pioneers

Person

Alan Kay

Portrait of Alan Kay
Portrait of Alan Kay

Imagined the Dynabook — a personal computer for children of all ages — then built much of it at PARC: overlapping windows, Smalltalk, the modern GUI. 'The best way to predict the future is to invent it' is his line.

Photo: Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A., via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Worked at

  • Xerox PARC

    to: 1983-01-01 · from: 1970-01-01 · role: Founding principal, Learning Research Group

  • Apple

    to: 1997-01-01 · from: 1984-01-01 · role: Apple Fellow