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Alan Kay
b. 1940 · American computer scientist
American computer scientist (b. 1940), architect of the personal computer as we know it.
Alan Kay — American computer scientist (b. 1940), architect of the personal computer as we know it.
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Appears in
Xerox PARC, 1970. The invention that fit, and the ones that walked out.
Origins
The Mother of All Demos, 1968. What was shown but never built.
Origins
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