Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Alan Kay

IIPM MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” remarked Alan Kay. Born in 1940 to a musician mother, Kay seemed destined for a musical career. In fact, in school he was a guitarist and a soprano vocalist; even became a professional jazz guitarist in his youth. But the adept young man by the age of three had mastered reading, and by five had read hundreds of books! After expulsion from Bethany College, West Virginia & playing at Denver jazz clubs, his dextrous mind found his calling at the US Air Force. Th ey discovered the boy’s computing proficiency and set him to work on a 5 ft x 3 ft , massive 16KB storage capacity IBM 1401 business computer. Kay later specialised in mathematics and molecular biology. It was this understanding that founded his concept of a computer system that was ‘alive’ – in which each function was like a biological cell, which interacted to carry out complex functions and yet existed separately.

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IIPM Editorial, 2006, Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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