Kay is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. At Viewpoints Research Institute he and his colleagues continue to explore advanced systems and programming design by aiming for a "Moore’s Law" advance in software creation of several orders of magnitude. His contributions have been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering, the Alan M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing Machinery, and the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation "for creation of the concept of modern personal computing and contribution to its realization."