Dr. Alan Kay, father of SmallTalk the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, will receive the 'Nobel Prize of Computing', the Turing Award, in June. "One man's work to bring a biological model to the computer world has, 34 years later, led to a 2003 Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), officials announced Monday. Dr. Alan Kay will receive the 'Nobel Prize of Computing' in a ceremony in June, as well as $100,000, for his pioneering work on Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic object-oriented programming (OOP) language. Today, the language is credited as the model for C++ and Java; Kay is considered the first to coin the phrase 'object-oriented.'"
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