VoG 5: Alan Kay

Valley of Genius (MP3) by Leo Laporte

Oct 8, 201818:32Arts

Alan Kay is one of the founders of Xerox PARC. In his own words, he talks about developing early personal computers, the famous demo at Xerox PARC that gave Steve Jobs the idea for the Macintosh, and his feeling that com...

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