Alan Kay
Impact in
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- Teaching and Learning Programming
- Human-Computer Interaction top 1%
- Usability and User Interface Design
- Interactive and Immersive Displays
Papers in
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- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems 4
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance 3
- Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies 3
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- Algorithms and Data Compression 2
- Co-authors
- Athomas Goldberg (2 shared papers)Ted Kaehler (3 shared papers)Dan Ingalls (3 shared papers)Scott Wallace (2 shared papers)John Maloney (2 shared papers)Andreas Raab (5 shared papers)David P. Reed (4 shared papers)Michael G. B. Drew (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Scientific American (3 papers)ACM SIGPLAN Notices (2 papers)Computer (1 paper)Research-Technology Management (1 paper)Eos (1 paper)
- Partner nations
- United StatesGermanyJapan
In The Last Decade
Alan Kay
38 papers receiving 1.2k citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 138
- Computer Science Applications 275
- Human-Computer Interaction 261
- Software 149
- Hardware and Architecture 145
- Information Systems 390
Countries citing papers authored by Alan Kay
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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Kay
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Alan Kay, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
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| 1 | 1977 | 297 | |
| 2 | 1997 | 281 | |
| 3 | 1993 | 116 | |
| 4 | 1977 | 114 | |
| 5 | User Interface : A Personal View | 1990 | 111 |
| 6 | 1972 | 103 | |
| 7 | 1984 | 101 | |
| 8 | 1991 | 91 | |
| 9 | 2003 | 60 | |
| 10 | 1993 | 57 | |
| 11 | 1997 | 48 | |
| 12 | 1978 | 28 | |
| 13 | 2019 | 25 | |
| 14 | 1971 | 23 | |
| 15 | The use of vision and manipulation to solve the Instant insanity puzzle | 1971 | 16 |
| 16 | 2010 | 13 | |
| 17 | 2011 | 12 | |
| 18 | 2004 | 12 | |
| 19 | The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent it | 1995 | 11 |
| 20 | A Laboratory for Hand-Eye Research. | 1971 | 10 |
About Alan Kay
Alan Kay is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hardware and Architecture and Human-Computer Interaction, having authored 42 papers that have together received 1.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (4 papers), Augmented Reality Applications (4 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (3 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (3 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (3 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (3 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (2 papers) and Algorithms and Data Compression (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Science Applications (275 citations), Human-Computer Interaction (261 citations), Software (149 citations), Hardware and Architecture (145 citations) and Information Systems (390 citations). Alan Kay has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Athomas Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Dan Ingalls, Scott Wallace, John Maloney, Andreas Raab, David P. Reed, Michael G. B. Drew, Adele Goldberg and Mark Guzdial. Their work appears in journals such as Scientific American, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Computer, Research-Technology Management and Eos.
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