Name: Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.

Born: 1944

  • Pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect, designer, and implementer of five generations of Smalltalk environments.
  • Known for his work on bit blitting, pop-up menus, the Fabrik visual programming language, and the Lively Kernel.

Honors and awards

  • ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1984).
  • ACM Software Systems Award (1987).
  • Grace Hopper
  • Adele Goldberg
  • Alan Kay