Laptops today vary greatly in size, weight and purpose, but they all have one common origin: Alan Kay's Dynabook. Kay, a former Xerox PARC computer scientist, drew up the idea of a portable computer ...

April 3, 1981 marked the introduction of the Osborne 1, the first mainstream portable computer. Three-and-a-half decades later, computers are now much more portable – but how do modern-day laptops ...

Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries most responsible for the concepts which have propelled personal computing forward over the past thirty years — and ...

Textbooks are so yesterday. Yet student backpacks are still weighed down by them. Replacing those textbooks with software has been one of the great white whales of computing going back at least to ...

Who is CU-Boulder’s most influential alum? Unless you follow the computer industry, chances are you’ve never heard of him. His name is Alan Kay (Bio, Math’66). Measured against the metrics of how many ...