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Xerox PARCers Doug Englebart and Alan Kay Webcast
Ryandav writes "Dr. Doug Englebart, inventor of the mouse, and Dr. Alan Kay, creator of overlapping windows, were both part of the research group that created ARPAnet, and were heavily involved at Xerox PARC. Both were invited by the Progress Project and the University of Washington to speak about issues confronting humans as we rethink information technology in the future. The entertaining talk was archived for Webcast here." For those who enjoyed the article we posted earlier about the origins of the Lisa UI, check this out, too.
To be fair, Simula already had objects in the late 1960's, although its objects were conceptually more like coroutines than like the modern concept of an object. But otherwise, I agree with you that Smalltalk pretty much started it all in terms of OO, and calling him "the guy who invented overlapping windows" is ridiculous.
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.