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The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (OOPSLA Keynote)

Turing Award Laureate & Pioneer of Object-Oriented Computing

1:04:33·2013·undergraduate level·Conference Talk

Argues that biological cell signaling—millions of autonomous, late-bound message-passing agents—offers a far deeper architectural model for scalable software than brittle data structures.

Alan Kay's seminal 1997 OOPSLA keynote. Originally hosted on Google Video, copies of it are now only available from the squeak.org website as far as I can find. Putting it on youtube is my attempt to preserve a really important talk in computer science and computing in general.

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