Who's who Alan Kay is an american computer scientist, he is 77 years old and was born on May 17,1940. In 1966 he began school in the University of Utah College Of Engineering. He is the president of Viewpoints Research Institute and an adjunct professor of computer science. He also is an advisory board of TTI/Vanguard. Kay became Atari's chief scientist for three years. Something else he does is that he is a jazz guitarist. Alan Kay is known for the object oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He received a b.s. in mathematics and molecular biology from the university of Colorado.