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Mark Weiser, a leading light at the Xerox PARC computer science laboratory, hrst dehned the concept of ubiquitous or pervasive computing. In an article published in Scientific American in 1991 [12], he wrote The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. ... 

Mark Kahrs was born in Rome, Italy in 1952. He received an A.B. from Revelle College, University of California, San Diego in 1974. He worked intermittently for Tymshare, Inc. as a Systems Programmer from 1968 to 1974. During the summer of 1975 he was a Research Intern at Xerox PARC and then from 1975 to 1977 was a Research Programmer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and... 

W.K. Goetz A3.8 Xerox PARC, EML, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA... 

M. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, Stanford University Nicholas P. Samios, Brookhaven National Fahoratory Robert J. Spinrad, Xerox PARC (rehred)... 

But what do they really mean when they talk about innovation Inside the information technology industry, innovation has been defined historically by the process of invention and discovery, and driven by R D investments. Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and IBM Research, along with basic research programs at the world s leading universities, epitomized the innovation engines of the 20th century. 

Piezoelectric Microdispenser, Fig. 4 Focused acoustic beam ejection technology by Elrod and associates at Xerox PARC. Using a piezoelectric element with electrodes immersed in a tliin layer of fluid below a nozzle (a), an electrical impulse will induce an acoustic wave that,... 

NoteCards was a major Xerox PARC project that involved many researchers Frank Halaz, Randy Trigg, Dan Russell, Dan Jordan, Anne-Marie Jensen, Cathy Marshall, to name a few. 

IDE is Instructional Design Environment developed by Dan Russell, Dan Jordan and others at Xerox PARC. IDE is a tool kit used by Xerox instructional designers to analyse and construct training materials. 

VanLehn, K. Learning one subprocedure per lesson (Tech. Report No. ISL-10). Palo Alto, CA Xerox PARC. 1985. 

Stults, R., Me(Ua space. Technical report of System Concepts Lab, Xerox PARC, 1986. 

In 1983, Microsoft introduced its industry-leading word processor, Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word was based on an earlier WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) text-editing system developed at the Xerox PARC laboratories. 

We performed a work practice study of the students in the classes to gather information about their experience. Work practice is a discipline in which ethnographic techniques are used to understand the way people work [9], It is a qualitative research technique in which the ethnographer engages the subject in situ. It was developed at Xerox PARC in the late 1970s from Harold Garfinkel s Ethnomethodology [10]. 

Chuok Thacker 1943 USA Personal Computer (Xerox PARC, project leader)... 

Some details of the sample preparations and the DMR spin counts are listed in Table I. Also included in the table for comparison with present results are two Xerox PARC a-Si D,H samples (designated I and V), for which DMR results have been reported previouslyThe three-digit numbers for the other materials are Harvard sample designators. 

Mayer, M. 2009. The Physics of Data. Talk given at Xerox PARC, August 13, 2009. Available online at http //www.parc.com/event/936/innovation-at-google.html. 

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