"Wow. Hewlett-Packard has disbanded its Advanced Software Research team
and sent its leader, reknowned programmer Alan Kay, packing. From today's
Good Morning Silicon Valley: 'HP is bidding adieu to legendary Silicon
Valley technologist Alan Kay. A founder of Xerox's Palo Alto Research
Center, Kay -- who once said, "The best way to predict the future is to
invent it" -- was instrumental in the development of the windowing GUI and
modern object-oriented programming. He envisioned a laptop computer long
before the first ones rolled out and his Smalltalk programming language
was a predecessor to Sun Microsystems' Java. Hard to believe HP's cutting
him loose.' Maybe Apple will hire him."

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