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PARC Labs Links Up Devices
News Researchers at the pioneering PARC labs have developed software that allows all consumer-electronics devices to communicate with one another, making networked home devices easier to use. It also means instant access to resources on a wired or...
[March 2, 2004, 11:45]
Cisco To Buy UK Server Software Firm
News Cisco Systems plans to acquire Parc Technologies, a maker of server routing software, for roughly $9m, the companies said on Thursday. Parc, based in London, specialises in the development of server applications designed to streamline network...
[July 8, 2004, 17:10]
Apple's Patent Bending
Talkback "Apple employees coming from Xerox PARC brought with them the GUI idea and produced the first commercially available products (Lisa and later Macintosh). The Mac and Lisa interfaces were well under development before Jobs went to PARC and before...
[March 31, 2004, 22:12]
Selfish Users May Lead To Death Of Peer-to-peer
News The sense of community that has made music file-sharing services so popular is slipping away, according to a Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (Parc) study. That's not surprising, said GartnerGroup analyst PJ McNealy, although he disputed the Parc...
[August 22, 2000, 11:06]
Apple's Patent Bending
Talkback Apple employees coming from Xerox PARC brought with them the GUI idea and produced the first commercially available products (Lisa and later Macintosh). When Microsoft and HP started to gain a foothold with their resective GUI's (and Digital's GEM...
[March 31, 2004, 16:08]
Staff&Line Publie Un Livre Blanc Sur La Gestion De L'informatique Scolaire
White Papers A l'heure où les initiatives se multiplient, la gestion du parc et du support technique devient un enjeu primordial. Spécialisé dans les grandes problématiques de gestion de parcs auprès des collectivités locales, les solutions de Staff&Line...
[July 29, 2005, 0:00]
Xerox, Microsoft Unveil Tech Plans
News In addition, Microsoft will license Xerox's WebForager, technology developed at Xerox PARC providing a 3-D interface that lets people flip through pages in a digital book as if it were a real one. I'm super excited about what we have to announce...
[May 19, 1999, 7:54]
Xerox Prints Out Rolls Of Chips
News Using electricity-conducting ink that bonds to a flexible plastic sheet, PARC researchers said on Tuesday that they have been able to create arrays of bendable semiconductors that work much like their rigid counterparts.
[October 29, 2003, 13:50]
Engineering A Career At The PC's Creation
News When you left to go to Xerox Parc, you went with Butler Lampson and Peter Deutsch, who worked with you on the Genie Project, and you guys became the core of the research team over there? During the course of his work at Xerox's Palo Alto Research...
[July 5, 2007, 17:07]
Mac Pioneer Dead At 61
News Reskin was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a visiting scholar at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1970s when he first visited Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre).
[February 28, 2005, 9:05]
Apple's Patent Bending
Talkback Jobs set a condition that he be allowed to "peek under the kimono" at PARC. Jeff Raskin, considered the father of the GUI, was a consultant at PARC and later became an Apple employee to continue on with people who actually cared.
[March 31, 2004, 19:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But I didn't tell you that, because they didn't tell me), followed by two days at Xerox PARC. Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the graphical user interface and Ethernet, among others. Last day of the hols.
[April 4, 1997, 18:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News But I didn't tell you that, because they didn't tell me), followed by two days at Xerox PARC. Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the graphical user interface and Ethernet, among others. Last day of the hols.
[April 4, 1997, 17:57]
Breakthrough: Stories And Strategies Of Radical Innovation
Member Review In Breakthrough, Xerox PARC researcher Mark Stefik and his psychologist wife examine the roots of innovation via the stories behind key advances made at the world-famous research centre.
[January 19, 2005, 15:23]
Cas Client Lafuma (NEC ESMPRO DeploymentManager)
White Papers A travers une politique d'informatique distribuée multi-sites, la société Lafuma possède un parc de serveurs multi-marques. Lafuma souhaitait disposer d'une solution capable de remettre en service le réseau de façon immédiate, à distance et...
[February 19, 2007, 23:00]
Technical Tour Addenda
Talkback sorry, but you can't mention xerox parc and microsoft without putting in 1, Infinite Loop. After all - it's because of that company that we are now using computers to read this site!
[December 20, 2006, 15:58]
What Microsoft Should Do With Its Pot Of Gold
Talkback As anyone who's older than 12 knows the entire the WIMP (Windows Icons Mouse Pointer) GUI (Graphical User Interface) was developed by Xerox's PARC (Paolo Alto Research Centre) and demonstrated to both Gates & Jobs for free.
[August 1, 2003, 13:59]
Apple Crumble Grumble
Blog Comment Just a point of correction, Apple didn't invent the GUI, Jobzy saw potential in a preview he saw at Xerox PARC. Hey Harpless, nice to have your comments. So, was it you who bought the iPhone? Their success is based on drooling Mac addicts that must...
[March 27, 2008, 13:18]
Will Longhorn Outflank Java Rivals?
Talkback DOS was bits and pieces (largely CP/M) taken from other sources, Windows originally (and for 9x, still is) a DOS shell with a GUI taken from Xerox PARC, WinNT is OS/2 2.1 (itself from the Carnegie-Mellon microkernel ) with the kludegy Windows GUI...
[October 30, 2003, 13:43]
MIT Looks Into The Technology Crystal Ball Pt II
News Researchers at Xerox's PARC have an approach called "aspect-oriented programming" that lets programmers treat similar situations throughout their applications as a single issue. In the IT realm, the magazine focuses on the growing significance of...
[December 29, 2000, 9:26]
