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2004 Kyoto Prize Laureates
Advanced Technology Category
Prize Field: Information Science
"For creating the concept of modern personal computing and contributing to its realization."
Dr. Alan Curtis Kay
Date of Birth: May 17, 1940
Nationality: American
President, Viewpoints Research Institute
| BRIEF BIOGRAPHY |
| 1940 |
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
| 1969 |
University of Utah Ph.D. (Computer Science) |
| 1969 - 1971 |
Research Associate and Lecturer, AI Project, Stanford University |
| 1971 - 1981 |
Researcher and Fellow, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center |
| 1981 - 1984 |
Chief Scientist, Atari |
| 1984 - 1996 |
Fellow, Apple Computer |
| 1996 - 2001 |
Vice President, Research and Development, The Walt Disney Co. |
| 2001 - present |
Founder and President, Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc. |
| 2002 - present |
Senior Fellow, Hewlett-Packard Company |
| 2002 - present |
Program Manager, IPA Exploratory Software Project |
| present |
Visiting Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University |
| present |
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCLA |
| present |
Sr. Scientist, Div. Info. Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Selected AWARDS AND HONORS |
| 1987 |
Software Systems Award, ACM |
| 1989 |
Lifetime Achievement Award, SPA |
| 1990 |
J-D Warnier Prix d'Informatique |
| 1992 |
Outstanding Educator Award, ACM SIGCSE |
| 2001 |
Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Computing Award, IMAS |
| 2001 |
C&C Prize, NEC |
| 2003 |
A. M. Turing Award, ACM |
| 2004 |
C. S. Draper Prize, National Academy of Engineering |
| Members: |
Royal Society of Arts, National Academy of Engineering |
| SELECTED WORKS |
| 1977 |
Personal dynamic media (with Adele Goldberg), IEEE Computer, March, 31 |
| 1984 |
Computer Software, Scientific
American, 251, 41 |
| 1990 |
User interface: A personal view, in The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, ed.
(Brenda Laurel, Addison-Wesley) 191 |
| 1996 |
The early history of smalltalk, in ACM History of programming languages II,
(Addison-Wesley) |
| 1997 |
Back to the future: the story of squeak - a usable smalltalk written in itself (with D. Ingalls, T. Kaehler, J. Maloney, S. Wallace), OOPSLA 1997: 318 |
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