Second printing now available

Points of View is a collection of previously-unpublished essays written to celebrate Alan Kay's 70th birthday. Twenty-nine luminaries from diverse disciplines contributed original material for this book. We believe this volume will appeal to readers and collectors looking to learn more about Alan through the eyes of his colleagues past and present, or to gain some unique insights into computer science, management, music and the arts. This second printing is being offered to the public in return for a $55 donation to Viewpoints Research. Your donation will help us to recover the costs of printing and shipping. The book is also available for download as a PDF file. Click on the cover image (to the right) to begin the transfer. If you choose to make a donation for the online version, no matter how small, it will be very much appreciated.

Bibliographic information

Ian Piumarta and Kimberly Rose (eds), Points of View — a tribute to Alan Kay.
Viewpoints Research Institute, May 2010. ISBN 978-0-9743131-1-5
272 pages, hardbound, foil stamped, color illustrated.

Contents
Kim Rose		Preface
Bob Sproull		Alan Kay: visionary designer
Ivan Sutherland		Old Salt Lake stories that you may not have heard
Adele Goldberg		Alan Kay and the Search for the Holy Grail
Bert Sutherland		Manager as Pupil
Bob Stein		Do it
Leonard Kleinrock		About an Ageless Alan Kay
John Sculley		Genius is Seeing the Obvious Twenty Years Ahead of Everyone Else
Bobby Blatt		The Vivarium—a place to learn about learning, and to think about thinking
Chunka Mui		Notes on a twenty-five-year collaboration
Mel Bergstein		Context, Inspiration and Aspiration: Alan Kay’s Influence on Business
Larry Smarr		The Emergence of a Planetary-Scale Collaboratory for Data-Intensive Research
Andy van Dam		Reflections on what Alan Kay has meant to me, on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Raj Reddy		Alan Kay and the Creation of the Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressources Humaines in Paris
Nicholas Negroponte		The Book in Dynabook?
David P. Reed		Get the verbs right
Chuck Thacker		A Tiny Computer
Douglas B. Lenat		The K Factor
Butler Lampson		Declarative Programming: The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Vishal Sikka		Some timeless lessons on software design
Vint Cerf		Thoughts on Alan’s 70th Birthday
Mitchel Resnick		Life as a Learning Lab
Bran Ferren		AK—A Graphic Exposé
Betty Edwards		A Tribute to Alan Kay
Bob Lucky		Portraits of Alan Kay
Greg Harrold		Greg and Alan conspire to create a wonderful new pipe organ
Quincy Jones		A three-sixty human being
Gordon Bell		Dear Alan, Re: What about your digital afterlife ?
Danny Hillis		The Power of Conviction
Ian Piumarta		Afterword