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Alan Kay, an Uncommon card
Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 66,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 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.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alan Kay article was read about 66,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Alan Kay
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alan Kay (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

