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  Alan Kay Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML

  Alan Kay Growing article, with links to related topics. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay

  The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Invent It: It Is Not Just Smalltalk Brief interview, covers history, art, education; System Design Frontier, Frontier Channels. http://www.hwswworld.com/uploaddownload/interview/alan_kay_interview.php

  Board-of-Directors: Alan Kay Brief biography, photograph. Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. http://diamondconsultants.com/publicsite/people/team/?topic=board-of-directors&name=alan-kay

  Building Your Own Dynamic Language is Fun and Easy Abstract, slide show, references, from First Steps on the Road to Reinventing Computing, by Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, 2007 Feb 14. http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/070214.html

  Education in the Digital Age Alan Kay talk, in streaming video. http://video.csupomona.edu/streaming/tae/eda_index.html

  Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay Brief biography, old picture. http://unrev.stanford.edu/presenters/alan_kay/alan_kay.html

  From Dynabook to Squeak: A Study in Survivals Part of a historical research project, tracing the evolution of Alan Kay's Dynabook vision over 3+ decades; many links. http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/Dynabook/

  Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke Describes new way to build programming languages, systems, environments, applications. By Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute. [PDF] http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf

  The Most Important Idea in Computer Science Many quotes, Lisp emphasis. Bill Clementson's Weblog. http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.html

  mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography A list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis. http://www.mprove.de/diplom/referencesKay.html

  MUF Mastery: Alan Kay Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments. http://laurel.actlab.utexas.edu/~cynbe/muq/muf3_19.html

  Predicting The Future By Alan C. Kay; essay on how things get invented, and how to do better. [Stanford Engineering] http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/futures.htm

  Report on OOPSLA97 Summaries of Alan Kay keynote talk, Squeak Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting, Squeak paper talk. By Mark Guzdial. http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/oopsla.html

  Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links. http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html

  Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information. http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/378

  Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming A compact and practical model of personal computing as a self-exploratorium. Proposal to US National Science Foundation, NSF, granted 31 August 2006. [PDF] http://irbseminars.intel-research.net/AlanKayNSF.pdf

  Watch What I Do A Forward by Kay, from a book on programming by demonstration. http://www.acypher.com/wwid/FrontMatter/

  Alan Kay: The PC Must be Revamped, Now PCs should help people learn, not merely perform tasks, the prize-winning computer scientist says. CIO Insight. (February 14, 2007) http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Expert-Voices/Alan-Kay-The-PC-Must-Be-Revamped151Now/

  Steps Toward the Reinvention of Programming Brief citation, many forum comments. Lambda the Ultimate. (February 2, 2007) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2021/

  Teaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success Five lessons on using technology to engage students, recharge teachers, and in some cases, change the world. [THE Journal] (June, 2006) http://www.thejournal.com/articles/18654/

  Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron? Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria. (February 23, 2006) http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_is_com.shtml

  Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria. (February 23, 2006) http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/02/alan_kay_the_10.shtml

  HP Converting Storied Garage into Recycling Center Story about HP firing many researchers, focused on Kay, with many reader comments. Good Morning Silicon Valley. (July 21, 2005) http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2005/07/hp_converting_s.html

  A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big Talk with the Creator of Smalltalk, and Much More Historical perspective on personal computing, programming languages, from one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers. [ACM Queue] (December, 2004) http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273

  Alan Kay on Computing Brief critique of current state of computing. Fortune. (July 15, 2004) http://archives.emergic.org/archives/indi/009317.php

  Smalltalk with Object-Oriented Programming Pioneer Kay Interview, on influences, history, rationale; laptops; advice. [SearchWebServices.com] (May 5, 2004) http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/interview/0,289202,sid26_gci962762,00.html

  Lisa Rein's Tour of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation Covers history, Smalltalk, Squeak, Etoys, late binding, Croquet; Sketchpad, PDP1 Spacewar, Lisp; Ivan Sutherland, Doug Englebart, John McCarthy; in text, photos, audio, video in different resolutions. Open Content, public domain. (May 9, 2003) http://www.lisarein.com/alankay/tour.html

  Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay Smalltalk inventor speaks about computing today, and where it's going. [O'Reilly OpenP2P.com] (April 3, 2003) http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/04/03/alan_kay.html

  Educom'98: Alan Kay: The Computer 'Revolution' Hasn't Happened Yet RealVideo webcast from conference by EDUCAUSE nonprofit association with goal to advance higher education by promoting intelligent use of information technology. (October 15, 1998) http://www.educause.edu/EDUCOM1998/4925#kay

  Kay + Hillis Together, two legendary minds: Alan Kay, Danny Hillis. The result: a fast-forward, neuron-boggling, early-warning scan of the future. [Wired] (January, 1994) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/kay.hillis_pr.html

  Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk, Atari. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews. (June, 1985) http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.html

  SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk. (December 7, 1972) http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html