Some great thinkers at Xerox PARC, the place where, among other things, the computer mouse was invented, developed principles they called Calm Technology. When we surround ourselves with ...

Fifty years on, Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true. 5 Steps To Re-create Xerox PARC’s Design Magic (From The Guy Who Helped Make It) Microsoft Multitouch Video Demos Windows 7 ...

and reevaluating its research priorities at Xerox PARC, he said. Xerox has also spun out its Novelty industrial predictive maintenance business and its Mojave energy-efficient HVAC (heating ...

Undeterred by the management’s indifference, by March 1973, the PARC team had invented their path-breaking Xerox Alto. The machine incorporated a mouse and GUI a decade before mass-market GUI ...

After Kay joined Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), they built the Alto, which modeled the Dynabook’s software, but it was a console machine that weighed several hundred pounds.

Xerox creates its Palo Alto Research Center - Xerox PARC - in 1969. Its mission is to explore the "architecture of information." Fairchild Semiconductor introduces a 256-bit RAM chip in 1970.