How did Alan's Turing Award go?

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Sat Jun 12 19:02:58 UTC 2004


Thanks Gary!

By far the best thanks would be for all to strive to make programming 
not just quantitatively better, but qualitatively better. That means 
improving Squeak not just in kind, but in species.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 8:19 AM -0400 6/12/04, Gary Fisher wrote:
>Wonderful!
>
>Many thanks to whoever posted the photos; thanks as well for the Kyoto Prize
>link.  Alan has been at the center of changes so fundamental that some may
>be recognized only by historians from the perspective of the future Alan is
>inventing, but it's very good to see the beginnings of that recognition
>occurring while he can be thanked personally.
>
>Gary
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>>  > Did anyone attend Alan's Turing Award banquet?
>>
>>  Now there is some info on:
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>>  http://www.squeakland.org/images/news/html/turing03.htm
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>>  Alex
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