Interview with Alan Kay

Name: Interview with Alan Kay
Uploaded: 2014-06-20T21:42:36Z
Duration: 2 h 54 min 30 s
Channel: Gardner Campbell
Description: A long interview with Alan Kay, posted by Gardner Campbell. It ranges across the history of computing and interfaces, including Kay's explanation of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad. HN people point to it for Kay's account of Sketchpad as a Newton-like leap, one of his clearest explanations of why that work mattered.

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A long interview with Alan Kay, posted by Gardner Campbell. It ranges across the history of computing and interfaces, including Kay's explanation of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad.

HN people point to it for Kay's account of Sketchpad as a Newton-like leap, one of his clearest explanations of why that work mattered.

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2 comments from Hacker News

@dang2016 · in “Computers Without Clocks – Ivan Sutherland (2002) [pdf]”

I got this from link Thanks vmorgulis! If you haven't heard one of Alan Kay's many explanations of Sutherland's seminal Sketchpad work ("a Newton-like leap"), here's a wonderful one: ▶ this video Note the reference to Wes Clark, the pioneering system designer who died recently (link). Clark liked Sutherland and gave him computer time in the middle of the night, which is how the Newton-like leap came to be.

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@cconroy2014 · in “Interview with Alan Kay [video]”

Submitted the video to Hacker News.

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