It all started in 1973, when Xerox completed the Alto, the first computer to use a graphical user interface. This innovation forever changed the way the people work with their computers. Today, every aspect of computing, from creating animation to simple tasks such as word processing and e-ma...
As you work your way up, there are slightly more sophisticated changes that require research and testing. Toward the top of the pyramid, you’re looking at making micro-improvements to eke out every bit of juice from the optimization lemon. 1. Trust and Security Anything that makes the user...
However, out of the many different types of PCBs that exist,flexible PCBtop the list in terms of printed circuit boards that offer impeccable space efficiency. Due to their ability to curve into various shapes, manufacturers utilize them to make pretty tiny gadgets such as hand-held gadgets and...
afew companies have done a greater job in remanufacturing than Xerox.the reuse of old parts,which started on a small scale,had nothing to do with government regulation .it was prompted by a predicament found itself in:what to do with all those old machines accepted as trade-insor coming ...
PARC scientist Robert Metcalf was assigned to figure out how to interconnect the company’s hundreds of computers so that they could share the world’s first laser printer, which had recently been invented by Xerox. This might seem like a trivial problem today, but in the early 1970s, few...
Subminiature CMOS cameras usu- ally do not come as board cameras but rather as modules packaged in small plastic cases, as can be seen in Fig. 2. They are about half the price of CCD cameras, less sensitive to electrical distortions, may be operated at temperatures ranging from -40 to +...
It was evident that systems needed to change, but who would be the one to do it? After earning his M.S. in Engineering Mathematics & Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley under computer scientist Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi was recruited toXerox PARCin 1972. It was here ...
Owning single stocks is also one of the riskiest ways to invest in the market, but also has the greatest possibility for reward. As I showed you with Amazon earlier, here’s another example using the company Xerox. Photo Credit: Google Finance ...
I was still at Georgia Tech when I heard about the completion microgrant program at Georgia State. Georgia State was (and still is) making headlines for their use of big data to boost retention and get students graduated. Georgia State is the kind of institution where over half of their st...
In this paper I look at the successes, the failures, and what to do next. The Lisp world is in great shape: Ten years ago there was no standard Lisp; the most standard Lisp was InterLisp, which ran on PDP-10's and Xerox Lisp machines (some said it ran on Vaxes, but I think ...