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PARC's West Coast location proved to be advantageous in the mid-1970s, when the lab was able to hire many employees of the nearby SRI Augmentation Research Center as that facility's funding from DARPA, NASA, and the U. S. Air Force began to diminish.
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Much of PARC's early success in the computer field was under the leadership of its Computer Science Laboratory manager Bob Taylor, who guided the lab as associate manager from 1970 – 77 and as manager 1977 – 83.
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It was used as early as 1972 to characterize Xerox PARC's Alto.
Due to a peculiarity of the Alto's keyboard, Mesa's original character set did not include the underscore, so programmers were forced to use CamelCase for compound identifiers --- a practice which was incorporated in PARC's standard programming style.
The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work ; Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO stock from Apple, in exchange for engineer visits
* The mouse was not invented at PARC, but by Douglas Engelbart in 1963, Apple's mouse was an improvement on PARC's version.
* Unlike the Macintosh, PARC's prototype was incapable of any direct manipulation of widgets.
Interpress was also used as the output format for PARC's InterScript system, which was an editable word processor format for rich documents.
He was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969, founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory from 1970 through 1983, and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center until 1996.
PARC's and employees
Several BCC employees became the core of Xerox PARC's computer research group ( Deutsch, Lampson and Thacker ) in 1970.
PARC's and Research
Robert Taylor, founder of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory and Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center, noted that " most of the significant advances in computer technology — including the work that my group did at Xerox PARC — were simply extrapolations of Lick's vision.
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Raskin also claims to have had continued direct input into the eventual Mac design, including the decision to use a one-button mouse as part of the Apple interface, a departure from the Xerox PARC's 3-button mouse.
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Xerox has been heavily criticized ( particularly by business historians ) for failing to properly commercialize and profitably exploit PARC's innovations.
* Unlike the Macintosh, PARC's prototype did not feature Menu bars, or pull-down menu, nor the trash.
* Unlike the Macintosh, PARC's windows could not overlap each other.
Among PARC's distinguished researchers were three Turing Award winners: Butler W. Lampson ( 1992 ), Alan Kay ( 2003 ), and Charles P. Thacker ( 2009 ).
Apple developed an interface based on PARC's interface.
Geschke formed and headed PARC's Imaging Sciences Laboratory in 1978 where he directed research activities in the fields of computer science, graphics, image processing, and optics.
On November 24, 2010, CNL announced that it had reached an agreement to terminate PARC's lease of Darien Lake and up to 17 other locations.
On November 24 2010, CNL announced that it had reached an agreement to terminate PARC's lease of Elitch Gardens and up to 17 other locations.
" Advising " found its way into BBN Lisp and later into Xerox PARC's Interlisp.
West and Coast
The differentiation between the East Coast and West Coast schools of jazz, the differences between the `` hard bop '' school of Rollins, and the `` cerebral '' experiments of Tristano, Konitz and Marsh, the general differences in the mores of white and Negro musicians, all had become fairly well known to certain segments of the public.
later came a 1961 cut on the West Coast ( still pending elsewhere ) of $.07/cwt on 70,000 lb-plus carloads ( which works out to more than $4/mbf on that portion of the load in excess of 70,000 lb.
Ex-Oriole Clint Courtney, now catching for the A's is all for the American League's 1961 expansion to the West Coast.
Buchheister told delegates to the West Coast Audubon Convention that aerial spraying in Louisiana failed to destroy its target, the fire ant.
A flight originating in Florida picked up guests on the East Coast and Midwest and a plane left from Seattle taking on passengers at West Coast points.
Elaine St. Johns may fly in from the West Coast for the editorial staff meetings.
Ships from the West Coast rotated on six-month tours of duty with the Seventh Fleet, and Yokosuka was the Seventh Fleet's principal port for maintenance, upkeep and shore liberty.
Category: West Coast hip hop musicians
They reproduce slowly either by bulb division or seeds and have gradually naturalized from plantings in urban and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the USA since these environments mimic their native South African habitat.
Saltwater fish eaten by the American Indians were cod, lemon sole, flounder, herring, halibut, sturgeon, smelt, drum on the East Coast, and olachen and salmon on the West Coast.
* 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
Two more non-Victorian clubs, the West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Bears began playing in 1987.
Others dances sometimes placed under the umbrella " ballroom dance " include Nightclub Dances such as Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, Nightclub Two Step, Hustle, Salsa, and Merengue.
The province has strong cultural and personal ties to the Canadian Prairies and Ontario as well as to the West Coast of the United States and to Alaska and the Yukon.
The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.
William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.
It was there that Walsh developed the philosophy now known as the " West Coast Offense ", as a matter of necessity.
Walsh served as 49ers head coach for ten years, and during his tenure he and his coaching staff perfected the style of play known popularly as the West Coast offense.
These coaches in turn have their own disciples who have utilized Walsh's West Coast system such as Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak first a quarterback coach with the 49ers, then offensive coordinator for Shanahan at the Denver Broncos.
A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.
During a 1982 visit to relatives on the West Coast, Holbrook met Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz.
WIlls and the Playboys also played small towns on the West Coast.
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