Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries most responsible for the concepts which have propelled personal computing forward over the past thirty years — and ...

Time has published an interview with Alan Kay, a pioneer of the tech industry who worked for Xerox, Apple, Atari, Disney, and HP. In the interview, Kay discusses his early vision for computing, his ...

Alan Kay grins beneath his gray mustache and leads me through his Brentwood home. It’s a nice place with a tennis court out back, but given the upper-crust Los Angeles neighborhood it sits in, it’s ...

Among the first to realize the potential of a computer that could be used by individuals and learning students, Alan Kay has been awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for his life’s work at the Xerox Palo ...

Ever heard of PCs? Mice? The internet? Well, Alan Kay is the man credited with inventing them. He spoke to a packed house at SAP Labs in Silicon Valley this week about approaching software design in ...

Alan Kay, a Walt Disney software developer and former Apple employee, has left the company, Reuters has reported. Kay will leave Disney in September, along with his team of six programmers who took ...

It's difficult to overstate CU alumnus Alan Kay's influence on our modern digital landscape. Recruited to work at Xerox PARC the year it opened, he helped invent graphical user interfaces (GUIs), ...