| PARC Fact Sheet
The Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC), a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation,
conducts pioneering interdisciplinary research
in physical, computational, and social sciences.
Building on its three-decade tradition of
innovation, PARC works with Xerox
and other strategic partners to commercialize
technologies created by its renowned scientists.
Location
(map
and directions)
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA
650-812-4000
info@parc.com
Founded - 1970
Incorporated - 2002 as a subsidiary of Xerox
Corporation
Senior Management Team
(bios
and photographs)
President and Center
Director
Mark
Bernstein
Laboratories
Ross
Bringans, Manager, Electronic Materials
and Devices Laboratory
Scott
Elrod, Manager, Hardware Systems Laboratory
Markus
Fromherz, Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Teresa
Lunt, Manager, Computing Science Laboratory
Scripps-PARC Institute
for Advanced Biomedical Sciences
Richard
Bruce, Director, Scripps-PARC Institute
for Advanced Biomedical Sciences
Business Administration
Dana
Bloomberg, Vice President, Operations
Damon
Matteo, Vice President, Intellectual
Capital Management
John
Pauksta, Director, Finance
and Human Resources
Staff
~ 170 Researchers
+ Business, Intellectual Property and Operations
Current Research
Current research
programs include such areas as:
- Micro-Scale Devices
- Smart Matter Integrated Systems
- Biomedical Sciences
- Mobile & Wireless
- Image Processing
- Document Content
- Sensemaking
- Community
Information on individual
research projects can be found at:
http://www.parc.com/research/
Highlights of Past Developments
(date developed/date
commercially offered)
Additional historical
information is available at: http://www.parc.com/about/history/default.html
- The Alto Computer (1973/1980)
included the Graphical User Interface (GUI),
WYSIWYG editing, bit-mapped display, overlapping
windows, and the first commercial use of
the mouse
- Ethernet (1973/1980)
- Laser Printers (1972/1977) and Page Description
Languages
- Ubiquitous Computing
Coined at PARC in 1988, the term Ubiquitous
Computing has become industry-standard to
refer to the pervasiveness of portable,
connected computational tools. PARC's own
research in this area spawned several commercialization
efforts:
- MobileDocs (1993/1999)
- LiveWorks (1990/1996)
- Uppercase (1997/1998)
- Amorphous Silicon (a-Si) Thin-Film Transistors
PARC's development of Amorphous Silicon
(a-Si) thin-film transistors and sensors
became the backbone for several technologies,
since commecialized through the PARC spin-out,
dpiX.
- Ultra-high resolution flat-panel displays
(1989/1996)
- Digital X-ray system (1990/1996)
- Flash Scanners (high-speed document scanning)
(1993)
- Multibeam lasers (1986/1995)
- DocuPrint (1993/1993)
- The Eureka Knowledge Sharing System (1994/1994-internal
deployment)
Spin-off Companies
- Optimem (became Cipher Data Products)
(1980)
- Spectra Diode Laboratories, Inc. (1983)
- Microlytics (1985)
- Synoptics Communications, Inc. (1985)
(became Bay Networks, then Nortel)
- ParcPlace Systems (1988) (became ObjectShare)
- Documentum (1990)
- Semaphore Communications (1990)
- Liveworks (1992)
- dpiX (1996)
- Placeware (1996)
- Inxight (1996)
- Uppercase, Inc. (1998)
- GroupFire (became Outride Inc.) (2000)
- ContentGuard (2000)
- Gyricon LLC (2000)
Ownership:
Palo Alto Research
Center Incorporated is a subsidiary of Xerox
Corporation. |
