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PARC works closely with varied enterprises and new ventures to discover breakthrough business and technology concepts that solve real needs, and transform how enterprises deliver value to customers. PARC takes an agile,
multidisciplinary approach to open innovation
– by bringing together
physical, computer, biological, and social scientists who have the vision,
expertise, and instinct to convert groundbreaking scientific findings into
industrial-strength prototypes.
Incorporated in 2002 as an independent research business, PARC is celebrated for such innovations as laser printing, distributed computing and Ethernet, the graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming, and ubiquitous computing. PARC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation.
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PARC announces its certification as a Bay Area Green Business by the Santa Clara County Green Business Program. The two-year path to certification involved our site operations and volunteer "Green Team" task force working through an extensive checklist of measures and action items -- including energy and water conservation, facility and equipment operating procedures, employee practices, recycling and waste reduction, and pollution prevention. PARC is also a member of Sustainable Silicon Valley, and recently initiated an annual Sustainability Fellowship for graduate students seeking to help invent a sustainable future. |
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SolFocus Completes Spanish Project, Eyes California
It's a milestone for the company...Pedro Banda, ISFOC's director general, confirmed the initial results are promising. "While we are just now beginning to evaluate performance results from the installed systems, initial results look excellent and validate our belief that the high-efficiency capability of [concentrating] PV technology is going to provide high energy yields," he said in a written statement. "SolFocus has done an excellent job of progressing its technology from [research and development] into commercially ready product." Related case study...
Online gamers are fit: physically if not mentally -- New Scientist
Pale, overweight couch potatoes. That's the stereotype of avid online computer gamers, but these joystick junkies are actually in better than average physical condition, a new US survey [conducted by PARC, UCLA, and University of Delaware] suggests, although they may be less healthy mentally. Related research...
Cloud computing pondered at eBay [ResearchFest] event -- InfoWorld
Also during the eBay event, another panel discussed trends in technology research...Panelist Mark Bernstein, president and center director at PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), formerly Xerox PARC, said personalization of information services would be a trend the next 20 years... Panelists also discussed the impact of patents.
Innovation Summit -- SPIE release
Solar, biophotonics, and next-generation lighting technology experts with success in leveraging invention and intellectual property into profit will provide insights at a SPIE Photonics Innovation Summit [November 6, San Francisco]. PARC and the UCB Haas Business School and Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation are participating as cooperating organizations.
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