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Jun 26, 2024 · Dr. Alan Kay, President of Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc., is a CHM Fellow, inducted in 1999. He is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces.
Jun 12, 2024 · Alan Kay's evening talk is entitled Learners, Powerful ideas, and the $100 Laptop. He says that he's never found the right order for the ideas in the title. Computer companies in the 1960s thought Moore's law meant that they'd get higher margins.
Jun 12, 2024 · Alan Kay's title slide, up during the intro says Is the Best Way to Predict the Future to {Invent,Prevent} It? with the {Invent,Prevent} alternating between each other. He jokes that this afternoon's talk can be summed up by the fact that he has to wear two microphones to speak instead of one.
Jun 17, 2024 · The second criteria Alan Kay set for object-oriented languages was message passing. Message passing is a way to request a unit of code engage in a behavior, i.e. changing its state, or sharing some aspect of its state. Consider the real-world analogue of a letter sent via the postal service.
5 days ago · Dan Ingalls is a computer scientist who has made pioneering innovations in object-oriented programming and computer graphics. At Xerox PARC, he codeveloped the Smalltalk programming environment with Adele Goldberg and Alan Kay.
Jun 12, 2024 · Here's a few follow ups to Alan Kay' talk last week. Scott Lemon has notes from Alan's technical and public lectures. Here's the link to the $100 laptop organization.
Jun 27, 2024 · The first criteria that Alan Kay set for an object-oriented language was encapsulation. In computer science, the term encapsulation refers to organizing code into units. This provides a mechanism for organizing complex software.
