Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It - IEEE Spectrum

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History of Technology Feature Computing Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future And how Xerox lost it Tekla S. Perry Paul Wallich 01 Oct 1985 46 min read An undated exterior view of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is shown in Palo Alto, California. Xerox/Getty Images In late 1969, C. Peter McColough, chairman of Xerox Corp., told the New York Society of Security Analysts that Xerox was determined to develop “the architecture of information” to solve the problems that had been created by the “knowledge explosion.” Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E. Gol

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