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

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Also in 1974, the Product Review Committee at Xerox head­quarters in Rochester, N.Y., No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If Pake, a longtime friend, to run it. Alvy Ray Smith. “No

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