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Alan Kay  - http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML  Biography, photographs, and references for one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution.  Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay  - http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html  Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links.  Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay  - http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/378  Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.  ACM1: Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet  - http://www.acm.org/acm1/conference/docs/kay.html  Abstract of talk, brief biography, good sized picture.  ArtMuseum.net: Alan Kay | Interface <1972>  - http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Kay.html  Biography about Kay's views on interfaces, a few references, old PARC picture.  Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay  - http://unrev.stanford.edu/presenters/alan_kay/alan_kay.html  Brief biography, old picture.  MUF Mastery: Alan Kay  - http://laurel.actlab.utexas.edu/~cynbe/muq/muf3_19.html  Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.  Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier  - http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.html  By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk, Atari. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.  SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums  - http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html  Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk.  mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography  - http://www.mprove.de/diplom/referencesKay.html  An extensive list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.