Xerox parc alan kay biography

Leader of the group at Xerox PARC which originated many of the concepts now common in personal computing, including the Alto workstation and the basic concepts of object-oriented programming which led to the programming language Smalltalk; sometimes referred to as the "father of the personal computer."

Education: BS, mathematics and molecular biology, University of Colorado, 1966; PhD, computer science, University of Utah, 1969.

Professional Experience: AI Project (SAIL), Leland Stanford Junior University, 1969-present.

Honors and Awards: Apple Fellow; ACM Software Award, 1987.

Kay got his start through a "blank-check" project organized by Xerox Corporation at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC), where he conceived of the Dynabook, a powerful notebook-sized personal computer, which in turn inspired the "Alto." Xerox did not take advantage of this development, and the concept appeared next in the Apple Macintosh system.

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