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executives

Stephen Hoover
credit: Amy Sullivan
2.8 MB

CEO

 
Steve Hoover
credit: Amy Sullivan
2.4 MB

CEO

 
Ross Bringans
credit: Brian Tramontana
2.2 MB

Vice President, Director of Electronic Materials and Devices Laboratory

 
Ross Bringans
credit: Brian Tramontana
2.2 MB

Vice President, Director of Electronic Materials and Devices Laboratory

 
Scott Elrod
credit: Brian Tramontana
2 MB

Vice President, Director of Hardware Systems Laboratory

 
Scott Elrod
credit: Brian Tramontana
1.6 MB

Vice President, Director of Hardware Systems Laboratory

 
Teresa Lunt
credit: Mimi Gardner
0.5 MB

Vice President, Director of Computing Science Laboratory

 
Teresa Lunt
credit: Mimi Gardner
0.5 MB

Vice President, Director of Computing Science Laboratory

 
Walt Johnson
credit: Amy Sullivan
1.2 MB

Vice President, Director of Intelligent Systems Laboratory

 
Walt Johnson
credit: Amy Sullivan
1.6 MB

Vice President, Director of Intelligent Systems Laboratory

 
Damon Matteo
credit: Brian Tramontana
2 MB

Vice President, Intellectual Capital Management

 
Damon Matteo
credit: Brian Tramontana
1.8 MB

Vice President, Intellectual Capital Management

 
 

 

 

company

PARC logo
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PARC logo guidelines
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sign
2.5 MB
 
patio view
6 MB
 
back hill view
6.2 MB
 
front view
credit: Amy Sullivan
8 MB
 
back view
4.2 MB
 
 

 

 

novel electronics

flexible display
credit: Amy Sullivan
4.9 MB

A novel PARC process enables jet-printing organic semiconductors and conductors. Additively printed polymer TFT arrays on plastic substrates can enable low-cost displays with new functionality and performance.

 
flexible display
credit: Amy Sullivan
8.1 MB

A novel PARC process enables jet-printing organic semiconductors and conductors. Additively printed polymer TFT arrays on plastic substrates can enable low-cost displays with new functionality and performance.

 

 
chiplets
credit: Amy Sullivan
2.7 MB

Chiplets made by Xerographic micro-assembly. "An enlarged view of small slivers of silicon, each no larger than a grain of sand, called chiplets. Using laser printers.. [PARC] may one day be able to create desktop manufacturing plants that use chiplets to “print” the circuitry for a wide array of electronic devices".  John Markoff, New York Times

 
optoelectronics and optics
credit: The Impact Media Group, Inc.
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innovation services

field testing
6.7 MB

Innovation Services analyzes and informs the use of technology in real-world contexts.

 
field observation
4 MB

Innovation Services provides field studies and analyzes resulting data to understand user practices, problems, requirements, and more.

 
 

 

 

historical

George E. Pake
credit: Brian Tramontana
0.6 MB

Founding Director of Xerox PARC who assembled a multi-disciplinary, world-class team of researchers with the mission to create the “architecture of information”.

 
Alto PC
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The Alto personal computer (debuted 1973) featured the world's first WYSIWYG editor, commercial mouse for input, GUI, bit-mapped display with menus and icons, link to LAN and simultaneous file storage.

 
first commercial mouse
credit: Brian Tramontana
2.8 MB

Three button mouse (circa 1970s), Xerox PARC's choice of GUI pointing device for personal computing based on a principle called Fitt’s Law.

 
Ethernet memo
credit: Dan Murphy
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Composite image of Ethernet schematics by Xerox PARC's Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of "Ethernet" (patented 1973), which became a global networking standard.

 
Dynabook PC
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Mockup prototype of Dynabook personal computer (1970s) conceived by Xerox PARC's Alan Kay.

 
beanbags and brainstorms
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Researchers gather on beanbags in the Computer Science Laboratory’s Commons (circa 1980s). Left to right: Jim Mitchell, Ed Fiala, Terry Roberts, Unknown, Wesley Clark, Ed Taft.

 
Dover laser printer
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The Dover-Alto software character generation laser ROS prototype printer (1976) became the world’s first laser printer.

 
Alto PC running Smalltalk
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Using the mouse and graphics capabilities provided by the Alto, students command the computer using the Smalltalk object-oriented programming language (late 1970s-1980).

 
Smalltalk GUI
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Smalltalk (copyrighted 1980) was the first object-oriented programming language with an integrated user interface, overlapping windows, integrated documents, and cut & paste editor.

 
PARCTab "PDA"
credit: Brian Tramontana
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Integrating a palm-sized mobile computer into an office network, the PARCTab system served as a prototype testbed for ubiquitous computing, a vision originated at PARC to enrich the computing environment by emphasizing ubiquity of information, context sensitivity, and more.

 
 

 

 

clean water

water treatment technology
credit: Brian Tramontana
2.2 MB

Because channels are stacked to enable high-volume throughput within a compact footprint, PARC’s water treatment solution is highly scalable.

 
water treatment results
credit: Brian Tramontana
4.1 MB

PARC’s system removes suspended particles from liquids in a single pass through a circular channel. Waste particles form a band at the outer edge of the channel, so the resulting waste and effluent streams exit separately.

 
water treatment results
credit: Brian Tramontana
1.5 MB

Effluent and waste liquid resulting from PARC’s water treatment system.

 
 

 

 

 

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