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Alan Kay, an early PARC pioneer and Advanced
Research Projects Agency (ARPA) researcher, said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." |
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Bob Taylor founded and managed the famed
Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC. After leaving Xerox PARC, Taylor founded and directed the corporate research facility at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which later became the Systems Research Center at Compaq. |
Adele Goldberg began her career at Xerox PARC,
where she influenced several early innovations, including the NoteTaker, an early form of portable computer. Later, she helped pioneer Smalltalk, an object-oriented programming language. She is known for saying, "Don't ask whether you can do something, but how to do it." |
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Bob Metcalfe was one of the pioneers at Xerox
PARC and the principal inventor of Ethernet. He later founded 3Com Corporation and is known for his "law" which states, "The value of a network grows as the square of the numer of its users." |
Butler Lampson served on the faculties of MIT and
UC Berkeley and also worked at the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC. Lampson and Chuck Thacker, senior engineer at PARC's Computer Science Lab, worked on the Alto and Ethernet. |