A Decade of Research
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
1970-1980

This wonderful book is a collection of papers representing the key research of the first decade of Xerox PARC. This was given to DigiBarn curator Bruce Damer by John Seely Brown (then director of PARC) on a visit to PARC in 1989 when he was working with Xerox through Elixir Technologies Corp.

It has been said that PARC was "long on demos and short on publication". We hope that our presentation of this volume presents a bit of a case that a lot of work was in fact published in PARC's first decade.

Note: All contents on these pages are copyright Xerox corporation unless otherwise noted.This volume is reproduced here for historical reference only and can only be used by reference for scientific and other research purposes.

Highlights of the Volume

See Alan Kay's article on the Alto (reprinted from Scientific American, 1977)

Also see: the Title and Signature page (many PARC Alums) and the Table of Contents and the Introduction by George Pake

Views of the volume

Cover of volume	Image91.jpg
Image92.jpg	Introduction by George Pake
Note by Licklider	First mention of "windows"
Kay's article on the Alto	Microelectronics and the personal computer
Music composed on the Alto, cursors	Interactive Raster Graphics
Raster transforms

See Also:

Xerox PARC reports

Alto: A Personal Computer

Xerox PARC (Parc Inc.) homepage