

Originally from Springfield, Massachusetts, Kay's family relocated several times due to his father's career in physiology before ultimately settling in the New York metropolitan area when he was nine. I had the misfortune or the fortune to learn how to read fluently starting about the age of three, so I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit first grade, and I already knew the teachers were lying to me. In an interview on education in America with the Davis Group Ltd., Kay said: He also is an amateur classical pipe organist.Ĭomputer scientist Alan Kay Early life and work Kay is also a former professional jazz guitarist, composer, and theatrical designer. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the early versions of the language and coining the term "object-oriented." At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface. University of Utah College of Engineering ( M.S., 1968 Ph.D., 1969)įLEX: A Flexible Extendable Language (1968)Īlan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design.

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