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A Short Biography of Alan Curtis Kay

Author Name:

Alan Curtis Kay

Born As:

Alan Curtis Kay

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Born:

17 May 1940

Died:





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Computer Scientist                          
                          
                          
Awards and Honors:

UdK 01-Award in Berlin, Germany for pioneering the GUI; J-D Warnier Prix D'Informatique; NEC C&C Prize - 2001
Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado - 2002
ACM Turing Award for work on object-oriented programming - 2003
Kyoto Prize; Charles Stark Draper Prize with Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor and Charles P. Thacker - 2004

Honorary doctorates:

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm - 2002
Georgia Institute of Technology - 2005
Columbia College Chicago - 2005
Laurea Honoris Causa in Informatica - Università di Pisa, Italy - 2007
University of Waterloo - 2008
Universidad de Murcia - 2010

Honorary Professor, Berlin University of the Arts
Elected Fellow ofAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Engineering
Royal Society of Arts
Computer History Museum
Association for Computing Machinery - 2008

Other honors:
J-D Warnier Prix d’Informatique
ACM Systems Software Award
NEC Computers & Communication Foundation Prize Funai Foundation Prize
Lewis Branscomb Technology Award
ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.                          
Early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design.