Xerox PARC innovations from "summary" of Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger,Michael Swaine
Xerox PARC was a research and development facility that was set up by Xerox Corporation in the early 1970s. It was located in Palo Alto, California, and was tasked with exploring new technologies and coming up with innovative ideas that could be applied to Xerox products in the future. The team at Xerox PARC was made up of some of the brightest minds in the industry, including computer scientists, engineers, and designers. One of the key innovations to come out of Xerox PARC was the development of the graphical user interface, or GUI. This was a revolutionary way of interacting with computers that involved using icons, windows, and menus instead of typing in commands. The GUI was a huge leap forward in terms of usability and made computers much more accessible to a wider range of people. An...
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