Alan Kay

Alan Kay is a computer scientist, programmer, and jazz guitarist born on May 17, 1940, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He holds citizenship in the United States and is currently located in the country.

Kay pursued his education at the University of Utah, the University of Colorado, and the University of Colorado Boulder. He later founded the Viewpoints Research Institute, and his topics of interest include programming languages, object-oriented programming, and graphical user interfaces. Kay was significantly influenced by his doctoral advisor David C. Evans and has advised doctoral students such as David Canfield Smith and Alan H. Borning.

Among his accomplishments, Alan Kay received the prestigious Turing Award in 2003.