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Video: Yahoo!'s Larry Tessler on user interfaces
Video Tessler also discusses his early work at Xerox PARC and Apple and his current role - redesigning the interface for the Yahoo! In a Super Techies interview, silicon.com sister site ZDNet's editor-in-chief, Dan Farber talks with Larry Tessler, Yahoo! [16 Jul 2007]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Add to this a director seat on the Apple board and it's been a good year for Schmidt, whose experience at Novell, Sun and Xerox Parc are obviously serving him well as he demonstrates both the influence and persistence necessary to be named an... [25 Sep 2006]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile His prior time at Novell, Sun - where he led the Java charge - and Xerox Parc attests to that. Eric Schmidt was setting agendas in the tech world long before taking one of the hottest jobs around in 2001. [23 Sep 2005]
Vint Cerf: If I were young, I'd work on space networks
News During a question and answer period at the "Internet: Today and Tomorrow" confab, sponsored by Stanford's engineering department, Cerf was asked about his early work on TCP/IP and whether he was influenced by work called PUP (PARC Universal Packet... [29 Jul 2005]
Minority Report: Jef Raskin and the Mac revolution
Comment Inspired in part by research from the Xerox PARC institute, the computer was to be built around human-centred design principles, which hid the complexity of cables and circuit boards from users inside an all-in-one enclosure. [03 Mar 2005]
Apple pioneer dies at 61
News Raskin was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a visiting scholar at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1970s when he first visited Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre, or PARC. [28 Feb 2005]
How Microsoft keeps its edge
Comment Critics rightly dunned it for being a pale imitation of the work generated by Xerox PARC. Microsoft has managed to remain dominant in IT for decades while rarely being first to market. Charles Cooper looks at how Redmond pulls off this feat. [15 Oct 2004]
Apple secures another iTunes software patent
News The company sued Microsoft for copyright infringement after early releases of Windows proved similar in conception to the Macintosh desktop concept, which itself was predated by work done at the Xerox PARC research facility. [12 May 2004]
Xerox PARC pioneer Pake dies
News George Pake, the scientist who founded Xerox's fabled Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), died after a long illness last week, less than a month shy of his eightieth birthday. Bob Spinrad, Xerox's head of West Coast engineering when PARC was founded... [11 Mar 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Medieval historians bite back
Comment An extraordinarily powerful set of ideas was formulated at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in the late 1960s. PARC was where the notion of the graphical user interface - GUI - took shape and where object orientation became a developed idea. [02 Mar 2004]
PARC working on device-to-device software
News Researchers at the pioneering PARC labs have developed software that allows all consumer electronics devices to communicate with one another, making networked home devices easier to use. It also means instant access to resources on a wired or... [02 Mar 2004]
Routing Information Protocol
White Paper The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a routing protocol originally designed for Xerox PARC Universal Protocol (where it was called GWINFO) and used in the Xerox Network Systems (XNS) protocol suite. [24 Feb 2004]
Apple bytes: The Mac at 20
Comment The reality was that Jobs allowed Xerox to invest in Apple (prior to it going public and at a time when it was considered a hot investment) in return for briefings on PARC's research. The origins of these interface and interaction innovations can... [23 Jan 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.10.03
Round-Up Ask the same two people which company was responsible for pioneering the graphic user interface and kick-starting the personal computing revolution and they'll be at each other's throats quicker than you can say "Xerox PARC". [31 Oct 2003]
The graffiti case - Palm may yet get its day in court
News Unistrokes was invented in Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, affirmed a decision by a lower court in December 2001 that Palm infringed on Xerox's Unistrokes handwriting recognition patent. [21 Feb 2003]
