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Alan brought a revolution in the field of computers. He was one of the first scientists to recognize that a computer has the capability to represent objects as pictures. He is well-known as the Father of Personal Computers. Alan Kay was a Computer Scientist from America. He was a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is popularly known for his outstanding work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user-interface design. Alan worked for Xerox PARC and invented the concept of the laptop computer which he named Dynabook. Also, he is famous as the first researcher of mobile learning. Birth and Childhood He was Born on May 17, 1940, in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. His father Hector W.Kay designed arm and leg prostheses and his mother Katherine Kay was a musician. Alan was brought up in an environment of arts and science. His childhood was such a blessed one. He read 150 books til