Xerox PARC
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Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, which invented much of modern personal computing and whose parent failed to commercialise it - the canonical innovation cautionary tale.
12 books
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- Dealers of LightningMichael A. Hiltzik, 1999
- Fumbling the futureDouglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander, 1988
- Copies in SecondsDavid Owen, 2004
Books 12
Michael A. Hiltzik · 1999 · The definitive history of PARC and the dawn of the computer age.
Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander · 1988 · How Xerox invented the personal computer and then ignored it.
Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon · 1996 · ARPA computing research, the funding culture PARC was staffed from.
M. Mitchell Waldrop · 2001 · Licklider and the ARPA lineage that staffed and shaped PARC.
Howard Rheingold · 1985 · Contemporary account of the personal-computing idea PARC realised.
Gary Jacobson, John Hillkirk · 1986 · The parent company's quality turnaround against Japanese copiers.
David T. Kearns, David A. Nadler · 1992 · Insider account by Xerox's CEO of the quality-driven turnaround.
David Owen · 2004 · Chester Carlson and xerography, the invention that funded PARC.
John H. Dessauer · 1971 · Insider memoir by the research chief who backed xerography.