Computer Scientist Alan Kay Joins Hewlett-Packard

1999–2004November 27, 2002Dana BaggettApple business
according to this Yahoo News article. Alan Kay is generally credited with the origin of the Newton and tablet PC by envisioning a computer that recognized handwriting and communicated with other computers. We noted this in our article on Apple's Knowledge Navigator on November 18. [Dana Baggett]

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