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Alan Kay...Lev Vygotsky, and of Constructionist learning. These further influenced his views. In 1970, Kay joined Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center, PARC . In the 1970s he was one of the key members there to develop prototypes of networked... In this article: Alan Curtis Kay, Walt Disney Imagineering, Squeak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PARC, Seymour Papert, Apple Computer, Smalltalk, and Sketchpad |
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Wired: Tech Biz | July 05, 2009
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
...Free: The Future of a Radical Price. All this was possible because Alan Kay, an engineer at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, understood what Moore's law was doing to the cost of computing. He decided to do what writer George...
In this article: Alan Kay, Waste, Wired, George Gilder, and Dell
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Metro | 3 days ago
Weird Fact of the Day (that you probably didn't know)
...meetings. Friday, August 14: The idea for a laptop was first developed in the late '60s - Alan Kay of Xerox then wrote about coming up with a 'personal, portable information manipulator' in a 1972 paper, calling it the 'Dynabook'. The first...
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Wikipedia | July 02, 2009
Error 33
...platform by incorporating the ability to replay right up to the point of a crash. Another Xerox alumnus, Neil Gunther, suggests that Web 2.0 sites that depend heavily for their commercial success upon Amazon.com's (at the time of...
In this article: Alan Kay, Xerox Parc, Amazon.com, Wysiwyg, Web 2.0, Bravo, and Microsoft Word
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CNN | April 22, 2009
Don't cut back on innovation
...decisions we make at this unique moment in time. With that, we're banking on the advice of Alan Kay, a former Xerox researcher, who said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." * : Time reflects local markets trading time. † -...
In this article: Revenue, Bankruptcy, Fortune Magazine, Nasdaq, and Alan Kay
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Times Online | May 16, 2009
Break free of this world wide delusion
...wrote about tech history even in the 20th Century. Alan Kay, pioneer of window systems, wrote "Xerox's problems stemmed from the fact that they thought they were in the copier business. They weren't. They were in the communication...
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Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX; pronounced: /ˈzɪərɒks/) is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (moved from Stamford, Connecticut in October 2007), though its largest population of employees is based in and around Rochester, New York, the area in which the company was founded.
- Name:
- Xerox Corporation
- Type:
- [[Public company
- Location:
- Offices in Rochester, New York, United States
- Location City:
- Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
- Location Country:
- United States
- Founded:
- Rochester, New York, United States (1906)
- Stock Symbol:
- XRX
- Industry:
- Computer Peripherals
- Document Services
- Key People:
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- Michael MacDonald, President, Marketing Operations
- Ursula Burns, CEO
- Larry Zimmerman, CFO
- Anne M. Mulcahy, Chairman
- Gary R. Kabureck CAO
- Products:
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- Digital Imaging
- Printers
- Revenue:
- US$17.6 billion (2008)
- No. of Employees:
- 57,400 (2007)
- Motto:
- Technology. Document Management. Consulting Services.
- Market Cap:
- $9.85 billion (2008)
- Website:
- http://www.xerox.com
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