She lectures regularly on writing, the creative process, and Sherlock Holmes. Kay was also a Senior Fellow at Hewlett-Packard until HP disbanded the Advanced Software Research Team on July 20, 2005. [7], "Bonnie MacBird talks about co-writing 1982's "TRON, The Bookseller Announcement of MacBird Sherlockian novels, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bonnie_MacBird&oldid=978997667, American women dramatists and playwrights, Women science fiction and fantasy writers, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Writer, actor, theatre director, voice artist, This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 04:37. The field of computing is awaiting new revolution to happen, according to Kay, in which educational communities, parents, and children will not see in it a set of tools invented by Douglas Engelbart, but a medium in the Marshall McLuhan sense. [5][6] Her latest Holmes installment, The Devil's Due, was released in 2019. Alan Kay got divorced. Having already accumulated enough credits to graduate, Kay then attended Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia. These inventions were later commercialized by Apple in their Lisa and Macintosh computers. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940)[1] is an American computer scientist. Later he said: I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea. Some of the original object-oriented concepts, including the use of the words 'object' and 'class', had been developed for Simula 67 at the Norwegian Computing Center. ©2014-2020 Bonnie MacBird. Instead, in 1970, he joined the Xerox PARC research staff in Palo Alto, California. In 2001, he founded Viewpoints Research Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to children, learning, and advanced software development. It is the first in her series and was followed by Unquiet Spirits in 2017 and The Devil’s Due, due out in October of 2019. It was so hard and it changed me forever. 1M lines of code? [14] The result was a new user interface, proposed to replace the Squeak Morphic user interface in the future. We wonder: how small could be an understandable practical "Model T" design that covers this functionality? She wrote the original drafts of Tron[2][3] and received a "story by" credit. Alan Kay (1983–present) Website: macbird.com: Bonnie MacBird is an American writer, actress, playwright, screenwriter, and producer. For its first ten years, Kay and his Viewpoints group were based at Applied Minds in Glendale, California, where he and Ferren continued to work together on various projects. In an interview on education in America with the Davis Group Ltd., Kay said: I had the misfortune or the fortune to learn how to read fluently starting about the age of three, so I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit first grade, and I already knew the teachers were lying to me.[4]. ", Minoru S. Araki / Francis J. Madden / Edward A. Miller /, This page was last edited on 2 November 2020, at 18:43. Thereafter, Kay taught guitar in Denver, Colorado for a year and hastily enlisted in the United States Air Force when the local draft board inquired about his nonstudent status. The proposal title was: STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming: A compact and Practical Model of Personal Computing as a Self-exploratorium. In November 2005, at the World Summit on the Information Society, the MIT research laboratories unveiled a new laptop computer, for educational use around the world. Kay is a prominent co-developer of the computer, focusing on its educational software using Squeak and Etoys. In 1984, he became an Apple Fellow. [9] Because the Dynabook was conceived as an educational platform, Kay is considered to be one of the first researchers into mobile learning; many features of the Dynabook concept have been adopted in the design of the One Laptop Per Child[10] educational platform, with which Kay is actively involved. He was the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute before its closure in 2018, and an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He proposed defining a "script process" and providing a default scheduling mechanism that avoids several more general problems. While at PARC, Kay conceived the Dynabook concept, a key progenitor of laptop and tablet computers and the e-book. [1] She is married to computer-scientist Alan Kay. Maybe there are others? Alan and Nicole are good people. MacBird is a native of San Francisco, California and graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in music and a master's degree in film. 100K LOC? Whatever happened in their previous relationships is hard to say but the lifestyle that comes with being into natural, holistic, primitive, survival, and homesteading can take a toll on your partner if they're not onboard. She is married to computer scientist Alan Kay and splits her time between homes in Los Angeles and London. 20K LOC?"[17]. He earned a Master of Science (M.S.) She is married to computer scientist His passion for the woods grew as the years passed, and by the time he was in his 20s, Alan had acquired the skills and mindset necessary to … In addition to her writing, Bonnie has worked in theatre extensively as a playwright, actor, and director. MacBird is a native of San Francisco, California and graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in music and a master's degree in film. With a vehicle one could wait until high school and give "drivers ed", but if it was a medium, it had to extend into the world of childhood.[11]. Her first book, Art in The Blood, A Sherlock Holmes Adventure was published by HarperCollins in 2015. Art in the Blood, her first novel, written in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle and featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, was published in 2015 by HarperCollins and released in 17 languages worldwide to critical acclaim. Alan Kay has received many awards and honors. She has a number of acting and writing credits in Los Angeles theatre. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. Leaving Utah as an associate professor of computer science in 1969, Kay became a visiting researcher at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in anticipation of accepting a professorship at Carnegie Mellon University. Before and during this time, he worked as a professional jazz guitarist. I know that I judged Sam somewhat for leaving a pregnant wife, and have often judged others leaving their 2 and 3 year old children. Rob and Paul modeled for the illustrations for ART IN THE BLOOD, and starred in  THE BLUE CARBUNCLE, adapted and directed by Bonnie. Alan Kay. Andreas Raab was a researcher working in Kay's group, then at Hewlett-Packard. Kay taught a Fall 2011 class, "Powerful Ideas: Useful Tools to Understand the World", at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) along with full-time ITP faculty member Nancy Hechinger. Her long Hollywood career includes four years as a feature film development exec at Universal, the original screenplay for the movie TRON, three Emmy Awards for documentary writing/producing, eleven Cine Golden Eagles for scripted and documentary work, numerous produced plays and musicals, and theatre credits as an actor and director. This led him to learn of the work of Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, Lev Vygotsky, and of constructionist learning, further influencing his professional orientation. The Three Locks is in work for 2020. She continues to write, direct and act in theatre in Los Angeles and is a voice actor for SkyBoat Media.[4]. Their mentorship greatly inspired Kay's evolving views on objects and programming. [5][6][7] While there, he worked with "fathers of computer graphics" David C. Evans (who had been recently recruited from the University of California, Berkeley to start Utah's computer science department) and Ivan Sutherland (best known for writing such pioneering programs as Sketchpad). More recently he started, along with David A. Smith, David P. Reed, Andreas Raab, Rick McGeer, Julian Lombardi and Mark McCahill, the Croquet Project, an open source networked 2D and 3D environment for collaborative work. She also teaches screenwriting at UCLA extension. in electrical engineering in 1968 before taking his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in computer science in 1969. Lectures at OOPSLA 1997 conference and his ACM Turing award talk, entitled "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet" were informed by his experiences with Sketchpad, Simula, Smalltalk, and the bloated code of commercial software. Kay is also a former professional jazz guitarist, composer, and theatrical designer, and an amateur classical pipe organist. The Summer that Zach was away in Patagonia was terrible for me. Originally from Springfield, Massachusetts, Kay's family relocated several times due to his father's career in physiology before ultimately settling in the New York metropolitan area when he was nine. [citation needed]. He attended the prestigious Brooklyn Technical High School, where he was suspended due to insubordination in his senior year. His doctoral dissertation, FLEX: A Flexible Extendable Language, described the invention of a computer language known as FLEX. He's now a survivalist superstar. Blairsville resident Alan Kay is like the Kelly Clarkson of History's "Alone." In 1968, he met Seymour Papert and learned of the programming language Logo, a dialect of Lisp optimized for educational purposes. Bonnie with actor friends Rob Arbogast as Sherlock Holmes and Paul Denniston as John Watson. Bonnie MacBird is an American writer, actress, playwright, screenwriter, and producer. As part of this effort, in November 1996, his team began research on what became the Etoys system. Bonnie is a regular speaker internationally on writing, creativity, and Sherlock Holmes. The goal of the class was to devise new forms of teaching/learning based on fundamental, powerful concepts rather than traditional rote learning.[13]. 2007: Laurea Honoris Causa in Informatica, 1999: Computer History Museum "for his fundamental contributions to personal computing and human-computer interface development. She is the original writer of the science fiction film Tron.

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