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Alan Kay - The father of Smalltalk has won this year's Charles Stark Draper Award from the ACM. This award is often dubbed "The Nobel prize of computing". Alan Kay shares the prize with other Xerox PARC alumnis Robert W. Taylor and Butler W. Lampson, and Charles Thacker. The best quote came from Alan Kay:

Kay added: "I have said to powerful computer industrialists: By all means use the ideas, but please try to understand and use the entire idea, otherwise what happens are the gross caricatures so often found in commercial vendor software. The evidence indicates that they didn't understand or heed my request."