Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
Wikipedia-confirmed identity. Matched to Wikidata Q92742 ↗ with a Wikipedia article ↗. Checked 2026-10-02.
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American computer scientist (born 1940)
Organizations and connections
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- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92742$3f41f7ed-41b3-c1f6-c181-432701e1bd4b1 reference record retained in the source statement
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Member of
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- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92742$88E0F557-4090-47FE-B858-CB51C7DB5DDANo external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
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Educated at
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q92742$D16C3B3C-8960-4B84-8C73-6569674338B51 reference record retained in the source statement
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Educated at
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q92742$5C63FC0B-8CCA-45DA-90EC-4A4F75C38C311 reference record retained in the source statement
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Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92742$9C333C2F-7E37-4B19-AE16-6A5EBAC76BA01 reference record retained in the source statement
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Member of
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92742$60E9394D-67FE-488E-8415-F4D28F4B059ENo external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
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Member of
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92742$F543455C-0488-4D93-93CF-FC8FF900005F1 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata
Educated at
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q92742$F917AFA1-F093-4BA1-AFAD-B5357860601B1 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata
Educated at
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q92742$3AD1729B-EAE4-4D2D-AD62-55D0158F40501 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92742$0677a811-42bb-9a5b-a1c1-104ed9eea8af1 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92742$EB78C704-5F33-4FB8-9BDB-EB2A3454FC20No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata
Member of
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92742$E069A7E6-AABB-4725-8E7E-02B1101F3364No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92742$3b1bc68f-4232-50be-297b-1c744377e04f1 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Alan Kay ↗Wikidata
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams ↗forum.effectivealtruism.org · 2019-07-20
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Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
- Steve Jobs obituary ↗www.theguardian.com · 2011-10-06
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
- Pixar’s RenderMan turns 25 ↗www.fxguide.com · 2013-07-26
- Alan Kay, Ivan Sutherland, Ed Catmull, and others to speak in Utah this week ↗attheu.utah.edu · 2023-03-20
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
- The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
- Pixar’s RenderMan turns 25 ↗www.fxguide.com · 2013-07-26
- Alan Kay, Ivan Sutherland, Ed Catmull, and others to speak in Utah this week ↗attheu.utah.edu · 2023-03-20
- Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over ↗medium.com · 2015-12-11
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- Xerox PARC Special ↗thechipletter.substack.com · 2023-07-26
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972) ↗wheels.org · 2018-02-20
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming ↗www.computerhistory.org · 2016-03-21
- Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) ↗computerhistory.org · 2024-11-12
- Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985) ↗spectrum.ieee.org · 2022-06-04
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
- Pixar’s RenderMan turns 25 ↗www.fxguide.com · 2013-07-26
- Alan Kay, Ivan Sutherland, Ed Catmull, and others to speak in Utah this week ↗attheu.utah.edu · 2023-03-20
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over ↗medium.com · 2015-12-11
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified
Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.
- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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WIKIDATA-CONFIRMED IDENTITY Wikipedia: Alan Kay ↗
574 plausible article mentions · 40 quarantined matches. The identity match does not verify these article associations or establish relationships.
- hn · 2016-07-11Tell HN: New features and a moderator ↗
- hn · 2023-10-26The Cloud Computer ↗
- hn · 2016-06-20Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today ↗
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