Advisory board
• John
Perry Barlow
• Gorden
Bell
• Peter
Cochrane
• Deborah
Estrin
• Eric Haseltine
• Michael
Hawley
• Alan
Kay
• Leonard
Kleinrock
• Douglas
Lenat
• Robert
Lucky
• Nicholas
Negroponte
• David
Reed |
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Dr.
Alan Kay is one of the pioneers of object-oriented programming,
personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. Dr. Kay's
contributions have been acknowledged with the Charles Stark Draper
Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the A.M. Turing
Award from the Association of Computing Machinery, and the Kyoto
Prize from the Inamori Foundation. Alan is currently an adjunct
professor of computer science at UCLA, a visiting professor at
Kyoto University, and an advisor to One Laptop per Child. He has
held fellow positions at HP, Disney, Apple, and Xerox, and served
as chief scientist at Atari. At Viewpoints Research, Alan continues
his work with "powerful ideas education" for the world’s
children, and the development of advanced personal computer and
networking systems. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Arts,
and the Computer History Museum. His other honors include the ACM
Systems Software Award, the NEC Computers & Communication Foundation
Prize, and honorary doctorates from Georgia Institute of Technology
and the University of Pisa. |
