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  • Xerox PARC turns 40: Marking four decades of IT innovations

    Posted September 20, 2010 - 1:37 pm

    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 networking to laser printing and the graphical user interface (GUI), have led to myriad technologies that allow us to use computers in ways that we take for granted today.

  • Timeline: PARC milestones

    Posted September 20, 2010 - 11:35 am

    Founded in 1970, Xerox PARC -- now just PARC -- has been home to some of computing's biggest advances, including GUIs, bitmapped displays and Ethernet networking.

  • PARC works on content-centric networking

    Posted February 17, 2010 - 11:41 pm

    Mark Bernstein, CEO of the famed facility, says content-centric networking will be hitting the market within the next couple years.

  • On the future of U.S. innovation

    Posted November 24, 2009 - 4:18 pm

    What does a "contemporary research model" for innovation look like?

  • Auto-detecting malware? It's possible

    Posted September 29, 2009 - 9:50 pm

    If antivirus protectors could collect data from machines and users, including geographic location, social networking information, type of operating system, installed programs and configurations, it would enable them to quickly identify new malware strains without even looking at the code. Here are a few examples of how this could work.

  • Experimenting on Mechanical Turk: 5 How Tos

    Posted September 3, 2009 - 4:51 pm

    Performing human-subjects experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk offers many benefits, including very low experiment costs, quick turn-around rates, and relatively simple approvals from human subjects boards. But you have to be careful to avoid bias and error.
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