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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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Sitting in his shirtsleeves at an industrial beige metal desk piled with papers, amid dented bookcases, gym bag in the corner, he does not look like anybody’s definition of a star engineer. Soon, in 1974, he was bumped up again to technology director, and moved from Monsanto’s corporate headquarters in St. Louis, and St.

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The speech writer later said that neither he nor McColough had a specific definition of the phrase. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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