Alan Kay
Impact in
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- Teaching and Learning Programming
- Human-Computer Interaction top 1%
- Usability and User Interface Design
- Interactive and Immersive Displays
Papers in
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- Interactive and Immersive Displays 3
- Co-authors
- Athomas GoldbergTed KaehlerDan IngallsScott WallaceJohn MaloneyAndreas RaabDavid P. ReedMichael G. B. Drew
- Journals
- Scientific American (3 papers)ACM SIGPLAN Notices (2 papers)Mathematical Social Sciences (1 paper)Communications of the ACM (1 paper)Research-Technology Management (1 paper)
- Partner nations
- United StatesGermanyJapan
In The Last Decade
Alan Kay
37 papers receiving 1.2k citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 139
- Computer Science Applications 272
- Human-Computer Interaction 259
- Software 148
- Hardware and Architecture 145
- Information Systems 389
Countries citing papers authored by Alan Kay
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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Kay
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Co-authorship network
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Alan Kay, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2019 | 25 | |
| 2 | 2011 | 12 | |
| 3 | Proposal to NSF - Granted on August 31st 2006 Steps Toward The Reinvention of Programming A Compact And Practical Model of Personal Computing As A Self-Exploratorium | 2006 | 7 |
| 4 | 2005 | 6 | |
| 5 | 2005 | 8 | |
| 6 | 2004 | 0 | |
| 7 | 2004 | 12 | |
| 8 | 1997 | 279 | |
| 9 | The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent it | 1995 | 11 |
| 10 | 1993 | 116 | |
| 11 | 1988 | 1 | |
| 12 | Doing with images makes symbols | 1987 | 2 |
| 13 | 1986 | 1 | |
| 14 | 1984 | 102 | |
| 15 | Artificial Intelligence: Its Impact on Human Occupations and Distribution of Income. | 1983 | 2 |
| 16 | 1981 | 0 | |
| 17 | 1978 | 28 | |
| 18 | 1977 | 114 | |
| 19 | 1972 | 103 | |
| 20 | A Laboratory for Hand-Eye Research. | 1971 | 10 |
About Alan Kay
Alan Kay is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Management and Computer Science Applications, having authored 42 papers that have together received 1.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (4 papers), Augmented Reality Applications (4 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (3 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (3 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (3 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (3 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (2 papers) and Teaching and Learning Programming (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Science Applications (272 citations), Human-Computer Interaction (259 citations), Software (148 citations), Hardware and Architecture (145 citations) and Information Systems (389 citations). Alan Kay has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Athomas Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Dan Ingalls, Scott Wallace, John Maloney, Andreas Raab, David P. Reed, Michael G. B. Drew, Adele Goldberg and Elliot Soloway. Their work appears in journals such as Scientific American, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Mathematical Social Sciences, Communications of the ACM and Research-Technology Management.
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