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ALAN KAY

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Alan Kay The leader of the Software Concepts Group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre which developed Smalltalk, the pioneering object-oriented programming system, in 1972. (1994-11-24). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Specialty Definition: Alan Kay

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Alan Kay is an American computer scientist. He 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 with the Apple Macintosh. Alan Kay is one of the fathers of the idea of object-oriented programming. He is the conceiver of the Dynabook concept which defined the basics of the laptop computer and the tablet computer and he is also considered by some as the architect of the modern windowing GUI.

After 10 years at Xerox PARC, Kay was Atari's chief scientist for three years. Starting in 1984, Kay was a Fellow at Apple Computer. He then joined Walt Disney Imagineering as a Disney Fellow. A recent development is the open source Squeak dynamic media software.

Kay has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Molecular Biology from the University of Colorado, and a Master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Utah.

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Crosswords: ALAN KAY

Specialty definitions using "ALAN KAY": Eurisko ♦ LISP70 ♦ Smalltalk. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ALAN KAY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Anagrams: ALAN KAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-k-l-n-y"

-2 letters: lanky, nyala.

-3 letters: alan, alky, anal, kana, laky, lank, yank.

-4 letters: aal, ala, ana, any, kay, lay, nay, yak.

-5 letters: aa, al, an, ay, ka, la, na, ya.

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Alternative Orthography: ALAN KAY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 4C 41 4E      4B 41 59

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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001100 01000001 01001110 00100000 01001011 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 0041 004E      004B 0041 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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