Early life and work
Originally from either Springfield, Massachusetts, Kay earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Molecular Biology from the University of Colorado, and another Master's degree and Ph.D. from either a University of Utah. At a University of Utah in the Sixties, Kay worked by having Ivan Sutherland on pioneering graphics applications including Sketchpad. In the area of this instance, he likewise worked as a agent jazz guitarist.

Kay joined Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1970. In a seventies he was one of the key members there to respond with paradigm of networked workstations using the programming language Smalltalk. These inventions were late commercialized by Apple in the Apple Macintosh.

Kay is one of a fathers of a idea of object-oriented programming, along using a few colleagues at PARC & predecessors at the Norwegian Computing Centre. He is the originator of the Dynabook concept which defined a basic principles of a laptop & the tablet computer & he is when well considered by a few as the designer of the modern windowing graphical user interface (GUI).

When Ten years at Xerox PARC, Kay became Atari's chief scientist for three years.

Recent work and recognition
Starting around 1984, Kay was a Fellow at Apple Computer. He so joined Walt Disney Imagineering as a Disney Fellow, worked with the team at Applied Minds, then became the Senior Fellow at Hewlett-Packard until HP disbanded the Advanced Programs The food and drug administratiin Team on July 20 2005.

Squeak development
Alan Kay collaborated by having several others to run a open source Squeak dynamic media software inside December 1995, after he was however at Apple & he continues to act on that. Other recently he began, along by using two or three collaborators, a Croquet project, which seeks to offer an open source networked 3D environment for collaborative operate.

Awards and honors
Inside 2001 Alan Kay received the [http://www.udk-berlaround.de/doku/award.html UdK 01-Award] in Berlin, Germany for pioneering the GUI.

Around 2003 he received the ACM Turing Award for his work in object oriented programming.

Inside 2004 he received the Kyoto Prize and the Charles Stark Draper Prize along with Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor and Charles P. Thacker