In the last week, the scientist, Jacob E. Goldman on ninety-year-old age died. Goldman was the founder of the Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox Parc, where many of the major computer applications were developed.
In 1969, Jacob Goldman for that Xerox, the company to which he as chief scientist was associated, a private research department would get to compete with IBM’s Yorktown Heights and AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1970, it was then the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center incorporated.
Xerox had the company Scientific Data Systems) was acquired to itself on the market for data processing to proceed, but a real strategy for the computer market was not there, describes the NYT. Goldman would be the management aware that there is a computerrevolutie in the way it was, but that the results of the research are still years, could wait.
The most important achievements in the field of computers arrived between 1970 and 1983 from the cartridge of the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox Parc. Here was, for example, in 1972, the Xerox Alto developed: a computer with a graphic user interface and mouse. The Alto was the blueprint of the home computer, particularly the Macintosh.
It was also at Parc ethernet was developed and knew the researchers ethernet to Arpanet to nodes by means of the Parc Universal Protocol, the precursor of tcp/ip. It was also the basis for laser printers laid, and it was at Parc developed a wysiwyg word processor, Bravo later used as the basis for Microsoft Word.