# Alan Kay

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Alan Kay is a pioneering computer scientist whose Dynabook work imagined personal, portable computing as a medium for thought and learning. It is essential prehistory for personal agents.

Source: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay72.html

Biography is based on Kay's published work and public institutional profiles; portrait is the linked Wikimedia Commons file. Checked September 19, 2026.

## Referenced in 101

- [A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages](https://mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay72.html) — Kay's Dynabook is a personal, portable medium for learning and creation—not a smaller terminal for consuming somebody else's software.

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