Kay joined Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1970. In the seventies he was one of the key members there to develop prototypes of networked workstations using the programming language Smalltalk. These inventions were later commercialized by Apple in the Apple Macintosh.
Gartner Revises Server Share Numbers Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:43:24 -0400
Gartner revised its first quarter numbers and found that IBM actually beat out Hewlett-Packard in server revenue.... Who Is Running The Most Secure Browser? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:13 -0400
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Strike slows downtown construction projects Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:39:21 -0700 A strike has shut down or slowed work at some of the Seattle area's largest construction projects. Investors sweeten Puget Sound Energy sale for public Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:57:36 -0700 Backers of a sale of the state's largest utility company, Puget Energy, offered Wednesday to sweeten the proposed deal for consumers by taking $100 million off any potential rate increases over the next 10 years. Employers cut jobs for sixth straight month Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:50:59 -0700 Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy's fragile state. The unemployment rate held...
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Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:38:40 -0000 The order raised concerns that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed.
Bits: Justice Looks Further at Google-Yahoo Deal Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:04:14 -0000 The Justice Department’s antitrust division has begun issuing subpoenas as it probes further into whether a planned Google-Yahoo partnership in search advertising is anticompetitive.
Bits: What Is Facebook Worth? (Part 37) Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:12:43 -0000 A document in the settled Facebook ConnectU litigation reveals that Facebook’s common shares are worth a quarter of the value of the stock Microsoft purchased when it invested in the social network.
Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:00 -0400 Twitter.com has so many new users that the Web site keeps crashing. Meanwhile, Twitter engineers are taking popular features away for retooling. It's a painful process, but co-founder Biz Stone has a plan. Young Moroccans Bypass Mainstream Media Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0400 When protesters in southern Morocco clashed with security forces, there was very little coverage from state-run television stations. But amateur video posted on YouTube showed what the official media would not. Young Moroccans say the Web is leaving traditional media behind. Would a Ban on Car Conversation Be More Effective? Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0400 California and Washington join the long list of states to ban handheld cell phone use while driving. It's the conversation, not the phone, that's distracting, research says. Do these laws really make our roads safer?
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Google must divulge YouTube log Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:53 -0000 Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched avideo on YouTube, says a US court. Warning letters to 'file-sharers' Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:41:04 -0000 The music industry says thousands of UK broadband users who share tracks illegally will be warned about it in letters. Firefox download record official Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:28:35 -0000 The creators of Firefox 3.0 celebrate the news they have set a new world record for software downloads.
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MSN portal goes 'social' Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:10:23 -0400 Jun. 30 - Microsoft is announcing new services intended to reflect the social phenomenon taking place on the internet.
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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs By ANICK JESDANUN Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:57:36 -0000 NEW YORK (AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.... Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:57:41 -0000 NEW YORK (AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.... Police wnt u to fight crime w/txt msgs By MITCH STACY Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:35:43 -0000 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs - to identify criminals using text messages....
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EA debuts new family, sports games for Wii, PlayStation Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:32:00 -0700 After its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, EA shows off its new family-oriented games and an "All-Play" series for Wii. Video: Latest in Viacom-Google lawsuit raises questions Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:48:00 -0700 News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom. Researcher faults Apple iPhone on security updates Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:22:00 -0700 He says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities.
404ACM1: Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet - Abstract of talk, brief biography, good sized picture.
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Alan Kay - Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution.
Alan Kay - Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
Alan Kay - The nearest thing to a personal page, at Squeakland site, biography with tiny photos of some early work.
Kay + Hillis - Together, two legendary minds: Alan Kay, Danny Hillis. The result: a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of the future. [Wired]
Meta Description: [ Wired brings together two legendary minds: Alan Kay and Danny Hillis. The result is a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of times ahead. ]
mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography - An extensive list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.
Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay - Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.
Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier - 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.
Watch What I Do - A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration.
is "You Can Make Things With Etoys!" that was performed by Alan Kay. Second is "The Demon Castle 1" that was written by ...