Computer scientist
Alan Kay
Designed Smalltalk and object oriented programming, and described a tablet computer twenty years before one existed.
Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the early versions of the language and coining the term "object-oriented." He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He received the Turing Award in 2003.
- Born
- 1940-05-17, Springfield, USAA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Taurus, Moon in Libra
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1940-05-17, Springfield, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 26°34′ | Direct |
| Moon | Libra | 3°48′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Taurus | 21°30′ | Direct |
| Venus | Cancer | 7°24′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 0°02′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 0°18′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Taurus | 7°16′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 22°16′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 22°48′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 0°51′ | Direct |
Alan Kay is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Alan Kay was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.