Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It
Cars That Think
JUNE 4, 2022
There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We
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