Distinguished University of Utah alumnus Alan Kay is giving two talks
in the Organick Memorial Lecture series today:
>> ...
>> 3:30pm Thursday, February 23: "Are 'Computer Science' and 'Software
>> Engineering' Oxymorons?"
>> 220 Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Research Building
>>
>> 7:30pm, on the same day, "Children, Powerful Ideas, and the $100
>> Laptop"
>> 220 Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Research Building
>>
>> 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.
>> ...
Notice the change of location: Biology, rather than Merrill
Engineering.
For those of you unfamiliar with our campus, the Skaggs auditorium is
just south of the Park Building (the main University of Utah
administration building): see
http://www.map.utah.edu/
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