The attached note was just posted to me by Professor Gary Lindstrom;
see
http://www.cs.utah.edu/info/organick.shtml
for further details on this significant annual event in the School of
Computing.
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I am pleased to announce that this year's Organick Memorial Lectures will be
given by Alan Kay.
Dr. Kay will be on campus to receive the University's Distinguished Alumnus
Award.
Dr. Kay will present two lectures:
3:30pm Thursday, February 23: "Are 'Computer Science' and 'Software
Engineering' Oxymorons?"
7:30pm, on the same day, "Children, Powerful Ideas, and the $100
Laptop"
About Alan Kay
Dr. Alan Kay is widely acknowledged as originating the concept of
personal computing, and inventing the now ubiquitous
overlapping-window interface and modern object-oriented programming.
One of the founders of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, (PARC) he
led one of the several groups that together developed modern
workstations (and the forerunners of the Macintosh), Smalltalk,
Desktop Publishing, the Ethernet, Laser printing, and network
"client-servers." More recently he has served as Chief Scientist of
Atari, a Fellow at Apple Computer, VP of R&D at Walt Disney, and
Sr. Fellow at HP.
Dr. Kay earned a doctorate in Computer Science at the University of
Utah in 1969 with a landmark dissertation describing the first
graphical object-oriented personal computer.
Dr. Kay has received numerous honors, including the ACM Software
Systems Award, the ACM Outstanding Educator Award, and the ACM Turing
Award. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society
of Arts, and the Computer Museum History Center. He holds an honorary
doctorate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in
Stockholm.
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