MACAW: A Media Access Protocol For Wireless LAN's
White Papers This paper studies media access protocols for a single channel wireless LAN being developed at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center. In past few years, a wide variety of mobile computing devices has emerged, including portables, palmtops...
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Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
White Papers RSVP originally was conceived by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) is a network-control protocol that...
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Engineering A Career At The PC's Creation
News During the course of his work at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (Parc), he helped pioneer two of the biggest advances: the PC and network connectivity. You're talking about the Alto now? That was the Alto.
[July 5, 2007, 17:07]
Xerox Prints Out Rolls Of Chips
News Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center has developed a way to use inkjet printing techniques to create cheap, flexible sheets of transistors -- a process that could radically change the way flat-panel screens are created.
[October 29, 2003, 13:50]
MIT Looks Into The Technology Crystal Ball Pt II
News Among those working in the area is a company called ContentGuard, formed from research done at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Researchers at the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency are even working on interfaces that...
[December 29, 2000, 9:26]
Open-source Search Looks For Web Niche
News All of the existing search engines have secret methods for deciding which documents are the best documents," said Cutting, whose CV includes research and development stints at Excite, Grand Central and the Palo Alto Research Center.
[August 18, 2003, 17:05]
Ethernet Inventor Welcomed Into Hall Of Fame
News He then left the East Coast for Silicon Valley, where he landed a job at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. And I was the new member of the research staff at Xerox's Research PARC. At the age of 61, Robert "Bob" Metcalfe has led a storied...
[May 8, 2007, 17:54]
They Are Women In Technology. Hear Them Roar.
News Anita Borg, a researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in California, plans to work with Ferris and others in finding ways to incorporate technology into social change. "I see the Internet as a huge resource and a very powerful resource...
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The Record Labels' New Target: Users
News They cite a common belief in the industry, initially sparked by a study of Gnutella users conducted by Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), that only about 10 percent of file-swappers provide about 90 percent of the content available through...
[July 4, 2002, 8:12]
Chip Design: Humans Not Allowed
News Though HP's research and design lab stands alongside peers such as IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre and Lucent's Bell Labs, the recent spending downturn is taking its toll.
[June 13, 2001, 14:56]
Americans Reject Antiterrorism Database
News The funding restriction is likely to pose problems for dozens of contractors -- including the University of Southern California, Colorado State University, the Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) and defence contractor Science Applications...
[September 26, 2003, 9:15]
Futurist: Teaching Can Learn From Web 2.0
News A consultant and former chief scientist at Palo Alto Research Center, Seely Brown spoke at a conference on technology and education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Universities and employers concerned with the state of...
[December 4, 2006, 8:21]
Microsoft Veteran Launches Tool Start-up
News He also worked as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Former Microsoft researcher Charles Simonyi has started a new company with the goal of creating software development tools. During his 20-year tenure at Microsoft, Simonyi...
[September 17, 2002, 14:19]
Ethernet Marches Towards Telecoms Domination
News Ethernet was created in 1973 at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center as a way of allowing PCs and peripherals in one small area to communicate with each other. Ethernet has taken another step towards becoming the protocol of choice for metropolitan...
[October 13, 2003, 11:50]
Google Seeks Early Win In Microsoft Battle
News In support of its case, Google argues that Lee is now a California resident, living in Palo Alto. Google announced on July 19 that it was hiring Lee to head up a new China research center. Google has asked a federal judge in California to rule that...
[August 30, 2005, 9:20]
The Ultimate Architecture: Utility Data Center Project Charts Course Toward A New Breed Of Flexible Computing
White Papers At HP's labs in Palo Alto, Calif.and Bristol, England, researchers are attempting to understand the nature of generation facilities, how they'll change over time, how to virtualize resources and how to provision them.
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