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Recent press releases:

Incubating Inside Xerox Labs: Innovation that Benefits the Workplace, Healthcare, and the Environment, Xerox Corporation press release (April 29, 2008)

...Delivers Flexible OLED Prototype with Novel Capabilities to U.S. Army, Universal Display Corporation press release (April 23, 2008)

...Names New Members to Patent and Trademark Public Advisory Committees, USPTO Release (February 14, 2008)

Recent news:

Xerox's PARC boffins show off new inventions (Techworld.com)
Data redaction processes are currently inefficient as they require domain experts and hours of manual labour, Staddon said. The intelligent redaction technology computerises the process and provides the expertise based on artificial intelligence software tools and algorithms developed by PARC.

Seeing the first Ethernet cable (and reusable paper) at...PARC (Scobleizer.com)
I got a tour of...PARC and got a look at a few research projects as part of a press day today...you can see my videos over on my Qik page.

Do We Need Reusable Paper? (internetnews.com)
How many times have you printed out a document on a sheet of paper, used it once, and tossed it out? According to PARC, 44.5 percent of the time that's exactly the fate of a printed page...So what if you didn't have to make new pages but could reuse the old ones?

Xerox: More than just a printer company (abc7news.com)
Xerox invited tech journalists from all over the state to its research center to show that the company is more than copy machines. Scientists at PARC are showing off some diverse innovations. "We are looking at how...we can have an impact on things that really matter to people," says PARC President Mark Bernstein.

...Searching for education application in the virtual world (techLEARNING.com)
And as the cost comes down, the chances grow that virtual worlds will work in education...PARC's Roberts sees all sorts of educational applications.

Computers for the people (CNET News.com)
"Mobile computing is much more intimately tied to a user's life. You need to design simultaneously on at least four levels, and functional design is not the only requirement," [PARC Senior Research Fellow Stuart] Card said.

How PARC sees printers boosting clean tech (CNET News.com)
PARC--the heralded research labs that Xerox spun out as a separate company in 2002--is examining ways of taking technology and ideas originally devised for copiers and printers into the clean-tech market.

Xerox and PARC on Comeback Trail with Cleantech and Other Technologies (SiliconValleyWatcher)
PARC has been inviting VCs to learn about its technologies and it has also been bringing in visiting experts in areas such as solar cells, and manufacturing, to help its researchers create commercially viable products...

World-wise web? Finally on the horizon are computers that can reason (Financial Times)
Powerset is using technology licensed from PARC...to try to solve the problems of natural language processing.

The Wisdom of the Chaperones (Slate.com)
While Wikipedia does show the creative potential of online communities, it's a mistake to assume the site owes its success to the wisdom of the online crowd...PARC's Ed Chi, the scientist who determined that...

Elusive Green Laser Is Missing Ingredient For Amazing Displays (Wall Street Journal)
What's missing is a low-cost green laser to complete the red-blue-green trifecta that is the basis for most video displays and cool, "natural" room light. So important are green lasers that many physicists and material scientists talk about them in holy-grail terms...

SolFocus installs first solar array for 3MW Spanish CPV project (Semiconductor Today)
SolFocus Inc, a PARC spin-off that manufactures III-V-based concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems, has installed...first commercial deployment...

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