[Computing] I have been told that _Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology_ was required reading at the Xerox PARC lab where OOP was invented, but this may be merely an urban legend. -- wilcoxb at cs.colorado.edu (Bryce Wilcox) -- In view of the temporal sequence, it seemed plausible to ask whether Rand¹s work had any actual influence on Kay and his colleagues at Xerox PARC. In October 2001, I sent electronic mail messages to Kay, and to all the members of his original Smalltalk team whose e-mail addresses were available on the Internet, asking this question. The replies I received were unanimous: Ayn Rand¹s epistemology was not discussed by or known to any of them. Kay kindly sent me an extended reply, reproduced in Appendix A http://www.objectivistcenter.org/events/advsem03/ReedOOP.pdf