Talk:Ted Kaehler

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This was written in response to an entry found on the people section of this Requested Articles page. Darwin Naz (talk) 23:38, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

A Fix Is Needed
Ted is and has been a truly great computer scientist. I suggest that the authors of it put more work into both fleshing out Ted's accomplishments, as well as making the existing article more accurate -- for example, it says that Ted graduated Gunn High School in 1968 (this sounds about right), but then it says that he encountered the Xerox Parc Alto there, which is not possible: the Alto first appeared in early 1973.

Ted was instrumental in the early development of personal computing at Xerox Parc. I first met him in 1972, when he and Dan Ingalls were working with George White. Ted was one of the instigators of "the bet" that got me to write the one-page eval for the first Smalltalk (which Dan Ingalls soon implemented). When the Alto appeared the next year, Ted helped get Smalltalk going on it (more or less "instantly") and also wrote the first graphics routines (a LOGO turtle-like set of line drawing routines).

Alan Kay (my sources are personal history)