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Breakthrough: Stories And Strategies Of Radical Innovation review
Reviews As Mark Stefik notes in his epilogue, in 2000, when it became apparent that Xerox was in trouble, PARC began reinventing itself as a research company. One thing that strikes you on reading this book is how many great technologies were invented at...
[January 19, 2005, 15:30]
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]
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. The Xerox Parc scientists disagreed, saying, "It is hard to generate spontaneous cooperation...
[August 22, 2000, 11:06]
Xerox Prints Out Rolls Of Chips
News Because PARC is now a partially independent subsidiary of Xerox, it could also work with outside companies or create a venture-funded spinoff to work on commercialising the procedure. Using electricity-conducting ink that bonds to a flexible...
[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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the graphical user interface and Ethernet, among others. But I didn't tell you that, because they didn't tell me), followed by two days at Xerox PARC. However, much happiness is engendered when I learn I'm to be...
[April 4, 1997, 18:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the graphical user interface and Ethernet, among others. But I didn't tell you that, because they didn't tell me), followed by two days at Xerox PARC. However, much happiness is engendered when I learn I'm to be...
[April 4, 1997, 17:57]
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]
Folding@Home
Downloads Pande's lecture on F@H at Xerox PARC You can help our project by downloading and running our client software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.
[December 18, 2004, 7:46]
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. Among those working in the area is a company called ContentGuard...
[December 29, 2000, 9:26]
Ethernet Inventor Welcomed Into Hall Of Fame
News And I was the new member of the research staff at Xerox's Research PARC. So, for example, when I patented Ethernet I spent a lot of time with Xerox attorneys explaining how you would build Ethernet using hardware, even though we actually built it...
[May 8, 2007, 17:54]
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. Xerox were fantastic innovators, but they had really poor marketing. Hey Harpless, nice to have your comments.
[March 26, 2008, 20:56]
Xerox To Spin Off "electric Paper" Division
News Developed at the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC), Gyricon's "paper" is a rubbery, thin material that consists of billions of hair-width-sized plastic balls, each half black and half white.
[December 8, 2000, 6:05]
The Future Of Publishing Technology
News Xerox PARC's Brown predicted a future of "embodied virtuality" where content and media are woven together in ways we do not yet envisage, such as sonic books that generate varying sounds when you touch different parts of a picture, for instance...
[August 31, 2000, 8:39]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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...
[June 29, 1998, 9:09]
