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Researcher · Viewpoints Research Institute · United States

Alan Kay

Alan Kay publishes mostly in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications, on topics such as Augmented Reality Applications, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms.

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World rank
#113,171
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#48,950
of 358,040
Works
25
Citations
171
Citations per work
6.8

What does Alan Kay research?

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 12.5%Information Systems: 8.3%Computer Networks and Communications: 8.3%Human-Computer Interaction: 8.3%other fields: 62.6%12%top field
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition12.5%Information Systems8.3%Computer Networks and Communications8.3%Human-Computer Interaction8.3%other fields62.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition12% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems8% of their works
  3. 3Computer Networks and Communications8% of their works
  4. 4Human-Computer Interaction8% of their works
  5. 5Communication8% of their works
  6. 6Computer Science Applications4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Kay's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agile Software Development, Education, Empirical Studies, Technology, Activity Recognition, Algorithmic Information Theory, Computability and Computational Thinking.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Agile Software Development21 topic
  2. Education21 topic
  3. Empirical Studies21 topic
  4. Technology21 topic
  5. Activity Recognition11 topic
  6. Algorithmic Information Theory11 topic
  7. Computability11 topic
  8. Computational Thinking11 topic
  9. Continuous Queries11 topic
  10. Data Stream Management11 topic
  11. Digital Communication11 topic
  12. Interaction Techniques11 topic
  13. Media Studies11 topic
  14. Pervasive Computing11 topic
  15. Programming Education11 topic
  16. Tangible User Interfaces11 topic

Where does Alan Kay work?

Alan Kay's main affiliation in the publication record is Viewpoints Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan Kay have?

Science Explorer counts 25 works and 171 citations for Alan Kay, ranking #113,171 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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