10/20/2009
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Turing Award winner and computing visionary Dr. Alan Kay will be delivering a special lecture entitled “’Normal’ Considered Harmful (Or, How Much Like Frogs Are We Computerists?)” on Thursday, October 22 at 6 p.m. in 1404 Siebel Center.
During the talk, Dr. Kay will discuss how an escape from entrenched orthodoxy and conditioned thinking have shaped computing as we know it. Dr. Kay will discuss his view of the future, and whether the computing industry is in need of questioning again reality, and what should and shouldn’t be thought about and worked on.
The event is sponsored by The Corporate Connection partner State Farm and the department of computer science.
About Dr. Alan Kay
Dr. Alan Kay is one of the pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. Dr. Kay’s contributions have been acknowledged with the Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing Machinery, and the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation. Alan is an adjunct professor of computer science at UCLA, a visiting professor at Kyoto University, and an advisor to One Laptop per Child. He has held fellow positions at HP, Disney, Apple, and Xerox, and served as chief scientist at Atari. At Viewpoints Research, Alan continues his work with “powerful ideas education” for the world’s children, and the development of advanced personal computers and networking systems. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Computer History Museum. His other honors include the ACM Systems Software Award, the NEC Computers & Communication Foundation Prize, and honorary doctorates from Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Pisa, and the University of Waterloo.
What: "Normal" Considered Harmful (or, How Much Like Frogs Are We Computerists?)
Who: Dr. Alan Kay
When: Thursday, October 22 at 6 p.m.
Where: 1404 Siebel Center (201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL)
Sponsored by: State Farm and the Department of Computer Science