Alan Kay
Computer scientist who worked at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, where he led the team that created Smalltalk and helped shape object-oriented programming and the graphical user interface. He is also known for the Dynabook, an early vision of a personal, portable computer for learning, and won the Turing Award in 2003. He still answers questions on Quora, including one about where the title "member of the technical staff" came from. See Wikipedia.
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