Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) performs pioneering research that covers a broad spectrum of research fields ranging from electronic materials and device research through computer-based systems and software, to research into work practices and technologies in use. The center's mission is to pursue those technologies that relate to Xerox's current and emerging businesses.

Located in the Stanford University Industrial Park in the heart of Silicon Valley, PARC was charged upon its founding in 1970 to be the "architect of the information age." Since then it has delivered into use such significant pieces of the current information infrastructure as laser printers, graphical user interfaces, object-oriented programming languages, and Ethernet local area networks. PARC has contributed to user interfaces, electronic components, embedded software and architectures for each new line of Xerox copiers, printers and systems reprographics products.

Public Information Sources

PARC research related to digital libraries.

PARC Graphics and Interaction Research Area.

PARC Embedded Computation Area research on "Open Implementation".

PARC research on ILU.

Nanotechnology research

Map Viewer with inlined images (or with linked images). See About the Map Viewer.

An Overview of the Internet and the World-Wide Web. (Script for videotape about the Internet).

Digital Tradition Folk Song Database. See About Digital Tradition.

PARC PubWeb Usage Graph.

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Last updated on April 26, 1995 by JWY