Xerox PARC is celebrating its 50 th year in business in 2020, and eWEEK thought it would take a look back—AND a look forward—into what this place was, and will be, all about. Xerox PARC, which holds ...

Jacob "Jack" Goldman-- the man who founded the lab that pretty much invented the personal computer as we know it -- has died at age 90. Goldman was the Xerox Chief Scientist who in 1969 proposed that ...

The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center is one of the legendary places in Silicon Valley, ranking right up there with the original HP garage, or the garage in Los Altos where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ...

Nov. 11 -- Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California is where much of the personal computer was invented. But now the famed research lab is faced with a new challenge: re-inventing itself. After ...

Everyone in tech knows the legend of Xerox PARC. In the early 1970s, members of the Palo Alto Research Center invented many of the basic building blocks of modern information technology, from bitmap ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Deep inside Facebook's sprawling campus here is "Area 404," a reference to the error you get when a Web page can't be found. Engineers gave it ...

During an after-dinner speech at a business conference more than 35 years ago, Xerox’s then-Chief Executive C. Peter McColough said he wanted the successful photocopier company to develop what he ...

Few executives have moved into new jobs as freighted with history as Tolga Kurtoglu. When he became chief executive of Xerox PARC on Jan. 10, he inherited the legacy of one of Silicon Valley’s most ...

When many observers of the tech scene hear "Xerox PARC," they tend to think -- oh yeah, those guys who let Steve Jobs steal their operating system for the Mac and otherwise invented a lot of cool ...

For 40 years, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (commonly called Xerox PARC, now just PARC) has been a place of technological creativity and bold ideas. The inventions it has spawned, from Ethernet ...