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by linkydinkandyou 3919 days ago
Here's a fair question to ask Alan Kay: He had roles as a "fellow" at Apple and Disney and HP.

What did he do to recreate Xerox PARC's "magic" while at these places?

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He was a fellow at Atari too, without helping them very much. Alan's a great guy, a great speaker, and he made fundamental contributions to OO with Smalltalk. But probably his single biggest contribution was that he funded the creation the Alto out of his group's budget. (So as a VC rather than a scientist or manager.)