Alan Kay Biography

Alan Kay	Alan Curtis Kay Born: 1940-05-17 Birthplace: Springfield, MA Race: White Field: Computer Programmer Famous for: Father of Object-Oriented Programming
Field: Computer Programmer

Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also on the advisory board of TTI/Vanguard. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)