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Alan Kay

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Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the early versions of the language and coining the term "object-oriented." He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He received the Turing Award in 2003. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Kay is the 23rd most popular computer scientist, the 1,745th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,689th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Alan Kay ranks 23 out of 245. Before him are Marvin Minsky, John Cocke, Don Norman, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, John Backus, and Ken Thompson. After him are Dorothy Vaughan, Vint Cerf, Larry Page, Sudha Murty, George Dantzig, and Arthur Samuel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Alan Kay ranks 99. Before him are Gary Gilmore, Masahiro Hamazaki, Edward C. Prescott, Jair da Costa, George Akerlof, and Lothar de Maizière. After him are Dionne Warwick, Joseph L. Goldstein, Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, Linda Gray, Richard Lynch, and Mamnoon Hussain.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Kay ranks 1,745 out of 20,380. Before him are Peggy Guggenheim (1898), Archie Hahn (1880), Bernard Herrmann (1911), Richard Farnsworth (1920), Robert Sheckley (1928), and Abigail Adams (1744). After him are Gerald Carr (1932), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Iris Apfel (1921), Snoop Dogg (1971), Linda Evans (1942), and Dionne Warwick (1940).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Alan Kay ranks 15. Before him are Marvin Minsky (1927), John Cocke (1925), Don Norman (1935), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), John Backus (1924), and Ken Thompson (1943). After him are Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Vint Cerf (1943), Larry Page (1973), George Dantzig (1914), Arthur Samuel (1901), and Ward Cunningham (1949).

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