PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.), formerly Xerox PARC, is a
research and development company in
Palo Alto, California that began as a division of
Xerox Corporation. It was founded in
1970, and incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox in
2002. It is best known for inventing
laser printing,
Ethernet, the modern
personal computer graphical user interface (GUI) paradigm,
object-oriented programming,
ubiquitous computing, and advancing
very-large-scale-integration (VLSI). Today PARC collaborates with sponsors and clients to discover novel business concepts and transfer scientific findings into production. Current research areas include
biomedical technologies, "clean technology,"
user interface design,
sensemaking,
ubiquitous computing, large area electronics, and embedded and intelligent systems.
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