PARC shows off research projects beyond its Xerox work
The famed Palo Alto Research Center opened its doors to journalists today to show off a bunch of research projects from smart documents to cleantech.
Mark Bernstein, head of PARC, told me today that no interviewer ever forgets to ask about how Xerox fumbled the future by failing to commercialize the technologies behind the personal computer that built companies like Apple. But he says the R&D center — the birthplace of the laser printer and Ethernet… Continue Reading
PARC opens incubator, may change plodding reputation?
The Palo Alto Research Center, the famed Silicon Valley research institution that popularized things like the computer mouse to the laser printer, has decided to open its doors to more aggressively nurture entrepreneurs.
PARC, founded by Xerox in 1970 for internal research, is now an independently operating subsidiary of the company. Its innovations are numerous, from the early personal computer Alto to ubiquitous computing.
However, one criticism of PARC is that it was never able to bring… Continue Reading