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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Shoup stayed at PARC, supported by Kay’s research group, while Smith moved on, armed with a National Education Association grant to do computer art. The first version of Smalltalk was written as the result of a chance conversation between Kay, Ingalls, and Ted Kaehler, another PARC researcher. a spin-off of Lucasfilm.

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