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["Michael Randazzo" <randazzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Marshall McLuhan Lecture: Alan Kay on Inventing the Future 
Thurs., March 14, 7:00 p.m. Free admission.
Alan Kay, President of Viewpoints Research Institute, is a seminal
thinker in modern computer science, credited with developing the idea of
personal computing and conceiving the laptop computer. He was the
central architect of the graphical user interface and object-oriented
programming.
After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Utah, Alan Kay spent
1970-1980 at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Since then, he has been
chief scientist at Atari, a Fellow of Apple Computer, and a Disney
Fellow at Walt Disney Engineering. Kay is known for a number of
aphorisms, including, "The best way to predict the future is to invent
it."
The Marshall McLuhan Lecture celebrates the intellectual heritage of
the Canadian media visionary who coined the phrase, "The medium is the
message." In promoting scholarly study of communication media, this
annual lecture, in keeping with McLuhan's own analogical method of
inquiry, draws on contemporary innovative thinkers in a diverse range of
fields--sociology, philosophy, fine arts, cybernetics, physics,
mathematics, psychology, theology, and computer science. The Marshall
McLuhan Lecture is presented by the Consul General of Canada, the
McLuhan family, and the New School Media Studies Program. 

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