
Alan Kay is a pioneering computer scientist known primarily for his work on object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces. While at Xerox PARC, he led the team that developed Smalltalk, the first purely object-oriented, dynamically typed and reflective programming language. Moreover, the Smalltalk windowing system was a precursor to today’s ubiquitous graphical user interface.
Kay is also an accomplished jazz guitarist and classical organist.