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Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Alan Kay, 1990
Part of From the Vault. Part of Considering Our Tech-nostalgia.
07/24/1990
Full-length interview with Alan Curtis Kay. Portions of this interview were featured in episodes from the WGBH/BBC Series, The Machine That Changed The World. The Machine That Changed The World was a five part series chronicling the personalities and events of the computer revolution. The program traced the history of the development of the computer to the modern personal computer, to future developments on the horizon. There was a focus on history of computers from 19th century to PC, present day applications, and future developments. Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist. He was an Apple Fellow at Apple Inc. in the 1980s and went on to be a Disney Fellow with Walt Disney Imagineering. Later jobs included Senior Fellow at Hawlett-Packard and founder of the Viewpoints Research Institute. Select metadata for this record was submitted by John Campopiano.
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- Series
- Machine That Changed The World, The
- Title
Interview with Alan Kay, 1990
- Series Description
Five part series chronicling the personalities and events of the computer revolution. Program traces the history of development of computer to the modern personal computer, to future developments on the horizon. Focus on history of computers from 19th century to PC, present day applications, and future developments. Featured participants include J. Presper Eckert; Thomas Watson, Jr; Steve Wozniak; Steve Jobs; William H. Gates; Marvin Minsky; Mitchell Kapor. Narrated by Will Lyman.
101: Giant Brains; 102: Inventing the Future; 103: The Paperback Computer; 104: The Thinking Machine; 105: The World at Your Fingertips. Series release date: 1992
- Duration
02:45:30
- Asset Type
Raw video
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Computer software developers--United States
- Microprocessors--United States--History
- Interactive computing
- Computer software--Development--United States
- Computer software--Development--History
- Information Technology
- Personal computers
- Kay, Alan Curtis, 1940-
- Apple computer--History
- Apple Computer
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Technology
- Contributors
- Kay, Alan Curtis, 1940- (Interviewee)
- Publication Information
- A WGBH Boston/BBC TV co-production in association with NDR Hamburg
- Citation
- Chicago: “Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Alan Kay, 1990,” 07/24/1990, GBH Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D9DC82D997454711A71B586E17D23119.
- MLA: “Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Alan Kay, 1990.” 07/24/1990. GBH Archives. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D9DC82D997454711A71B586E17D23119>.
- APA: Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Alan Kay, 1990. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D9DC82D997454711A71B586E17D23119