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Alan Kay has won the Kyoto Prize for his work on Smalltalk. He won a few other prestigious awards recently as well:

Earlier this month, Kay received the 2003 Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery for his breakthrough concepts on personal computing and for leading the team that invented Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic object-oriented programming language. The Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," carries a $100,000 prize, with funding provided by Intel Corp.

In February, Kay won the National Academy of Engineering's 2004 Charles Stark Draper Prize along with three colleagues for their 1970s work at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. The team, credited with creating the first practical networked personal computer, included Kay, Robert W. Taylor, Butler W. Lampson and Charles P. Thacker. The prize, given to an engineer whose accomplishment has significantly impacted society, included a $500,000 cash award.

All these awards... almost as if Smalltalk represents a big leap forward or something :)