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Parc set to spin out networking cloud company

...The Palo Alto Research Center said on Tuesday that it is spinning out PowerCloud... Read more

30 November, 2010 by Larry Dignan
A quarter century of Windows

A quarter century of Windows

...natural' interfaces are developed, began in the 1970s at Xerox's legendary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Pioneering computers like the Alto and the Star... Read more

20 November, 2010 by Charles McLellan

Parc to supply content networking code to Android

...Palo Alto Research Center, best known as Parc, has said it will submit... Read more

4 November, 2010 by Larry Dignan
A Fairness Analysis of Content Centric Networks

A Fairness Analysis of Content Centric Networks

...Centric Networking has been conceived as a very promising solution by the Palo Alto Research Center team. It can be gradually deployed over current IP... Read more

15 September, 2011
Engineering a career at the PC's creation

Engineering a career at the PC's creation

...command special attention. During the course of his work at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (Parc), he helped pioneer two of the biggest advances... Read more

5 July, 2007 by Charles Cooper

Xerox prints out rolls of chips

Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center has developed a way to use inkjet printing techniques... Read more

29 October, 2003 by John Borland
<endeca_term>Palo Alto Research Center</endeca_term>: On the edge of innovation

Palo Alto Research Center: On the edge of innovation

Scott Elrod, vice president of the hardware systems laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center, talks to Dan Farber about researching and supporting innovation... Read more

9 December, 2008
The future of paper

The future of paper

ZDNet.com's Sumi Das takes us inside the Palo Alto Research Center, where scientists are developing a way to print an... Read more

1 December, 2008 by Sumi Das
The future of paper

The future of paper

ZDNet.com's Sumi Das takes us inside the Palo Alto Research Center, where scientists are developing a way to print an... Read more

1 December, 2008

Unravelling the top 10 founding myths of IT

There are certain stories that have been floating around the IT industry for years, which few people stop to scrutinise. We attempt to sort fact from fiction Read more

28 November, 2007 by Gary Flood
Why disappearing ink isn't just for spies

Why disappearing ink isn't just for spies

According to Brinda Dalal, an anthropologist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), of the 1,200 pages of printed information... Read more

13 November, 2007 by Nick Hampshire

Ethernet inventor welcomed into Hall of Fame

...for Silicon Valley, where he landed a job at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. And it was there, in 1973, that he and... Read more

8 May, 2007 by Marguerite Reardon

Photos: The technical history tour

PARC, Palo Alto, California — Mice, Ethernet, laser printers, WIMPs Xerox PARC — the Palo Alto Research Center — is another place that causes despair among those who... Read more

13 December, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Futurist: Teaching can learn from Web 2.0

...at a conference on Friday. A consultant and former chief scientist at Palo Alto Research Center, Seely Brown spoke at a conference on technology and... Read more

4 December, 2006 by Martin LaMonica

How the Mac was born, and other tales

Andy Hertzfeld dropped out of school to join Apple Computer and became one of a handful of people behind the Mac Read more

13 January, 2005 by Scott Ard

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