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Alan Kay

Apple Fellow whose Dynabook vision anticipated personal computing.

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The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • His Dynabook concept, a portable computer for children's learning, shaped Apple's thinking about personal and educational computing for decades.
  • As an Apple Fellow launched the open-source Squeak Smalltalk in 1995 and began the Etoys research on programming for kids.

Apple

Apple Fellow

Apple Fellow from 1984 until the Advanced Technology Group closed in 1997.

Why

Why we celebrate them.

You told us the best way to predict the future is to invent it, then spent your life inventing it for children. Thank you, Alan.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • Wikipedia
  • Britannica
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