[4] Kay then worked as an independent scholar and held guest appointments at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
At the time of her death, Kay was studying serial computing, artificial intelligence, and models of brain function.
[6] Norman H. Horowitz of Caltech, offended by both Kay's approach (he deemed it antireductionist, fundamentally political and antiscientific) and her characterization of scientists of his acquaintance (he lamented her failure to ask his personal opinion of these men), dismissed its historiographical value.
(1999), Kay argued that information theory influenced research in molecular biology, as well as the rhetoric surrounding the field in the 1950s and 1960s.
Solomon Golomb deemed it revisionist history, unconvincing based upon his professional experience, yet well-researched and accurate.