{"id":4695,"date":"2012-07-13T20:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T02:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2012-07-13T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T02:50:07","slug":"interview-with-alan-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4695","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Alan Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drdobbs.com\/article\/print?articleId=240003442&#038;siteSectionName=architecture-and-design\">Dr. Dobbs:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In June of this year, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) celebrated the centenary of Alan Turing&#8217;s birth by holding a conference with presentations by more than 30 Turing Award winners. The conference was filled with unusual lectures and panels (videos are available here) both about Turing and present-day computing. During a break in the proceedings, I interviewed Alan Kay \u2014 a Turing Award recipient known for many innovations and his articulated belief that the best way to predict the future is to invent it.<Br><Br><\/p>\n<p>[A side note: Re-creating Kay&#8217;s answers to interview questions was particularly difficult. Rather than the linear explanation in response to an interview question, his answers were more of a cavalcade of topics, tangents, and tales threaded together, sometimes quite loosely \u2014 always rich, and frequently punctuated by strong opinions. The text that follows attempts to create somewhat more linearity to the content. \u2014 ALB]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dobbs: In June of this year, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) celebrated the centenary of Alan Turing&#8217;s birth by holding a conference with presentations by more than 30 Turing Award winners. The conference was filled with unusual lectures and panels (videos are available here) both about Turing and present-day computing. During a break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}