I’m going to get back to CCN in a minute but let’s go in chronological order: The story I was told while in the museum is that PARC was founded as a free-thinking research arm of the Xerox ...

📅 Today in History: In 1981, Xerox PARC released the first personal computer mouse, an invention of Douglas Engelbart. The device was packaged with the Xerox 8010 Star Workstation, which was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The networking platform that ships with virtually every modern computer was born at Xerox PARC around 1973. Ethernet was a groundbreaking technology that revolutionized computer networking.

(AT&T eventually reversed course and in 1993 bought a cellphone business.) The Xerox PARC lab famously developed a graphical ...

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.

One of the great pioneers of the computer age, credited with designing the first personal computer, has died at the age of 74. Charles Thacker, who built the first personal computer while a member ...