Title :
Alan Kay: Transforming the Computer into a Communication Medium
Author :
Barnes, Karen B.
Author_Institution :
Rochester Institute of Technology
Abstract :
Alan Kay is referred to as the "father of the personal computer" because his 1969 doctoral thesis described an early prototype of personal computing. Kay\´s ideas contributed to the transformation of the computer from a calculating machine to a communication medium. This article focuses on Kay\´s vision for personal computing.
Keywords :
Computer science; Computer vision; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Graphical user interfaces; Instruments; Military computing; Programming profession; Prototypes; Software design; Alan Kay; Dynabook; Smalltalk; Xerox PARC; graphical user interface; human-computer interaction; modeless computing; overlapping windows; personal computer;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2007.17
