Kay and Goldberg: personal dynamic media

What changed

Presented an integrated personal dynamic-media vision and interim Smalltalk-based implementation.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author 1977 IEEE Computer paper. It does not absorb Kay’s earlier Dynabook writings, every Xerox PARC contributor, the whole history of Smalltalk, Alto hardware or later notebook computers.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1977 IEEE Computer paper. It does not absorb Kay’s earlier Dynabook writings, every Xerox PARC contributor, the whole history of Smalltalk, Alto hardware or later notebook computers.

Contributors

• Alan C. Kay · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Adele Goldberg · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• IEEE Personal Dynamic Media record
• DBLP bibliography for Personal Dynamic Media

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