Tag: Xerox

Larry Tesler, Apple employee who created cut-and-paste, dead at 74

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:27 pm3 Comments

Computer scientist and user interface guru Larry Tesler, a key figure at Apple during its early years, died Monday at the age of 74…

Xerox prepares to take HP buyout bid hostile

Tuesday, November 26, 2019 5:48 pm10 Comments

Last week, Xerox threatened to take its bid hostile, if HP did not agree to a “friendly” discussion and open its books before Monday…

Robert Taylor, innovator who shaped modern computing, dies at 85

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 4:01 pmTuesday, April 18, 20174 Comments

Perhaps no one deserves more credit for the world-changing technological leap – the internet – than Robert W. Taylor…

Xerox CFO Luca Maestri leaves to become Apple corporate controller

Friday, January 11, 2013 8:52 am2 Comments

Xerox today announced that Luca Maestri…

No, Mr. President, the government did not create the Internet

Monday, July 23, 2012 9:34 pmMonday, July 23, 2012174 Comments

A telling moment in the presidential race came recently when Barack Obama said…

Jacob E. Goldman, founder of Xerox PARC, dead at 90

Thursday, December 22, 2011 8:58 amThursday, December 22, 201113 Comments

Jacob E. Goldman, a physicist who as Xerox’s chief scientist founded the company’s…

In defense of Steve Jobs: No, he did not steal from Xerox, etc.

Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:34 pmSunday, October 30, 201142 Comments

As they are wont to do, the lame-stream media pounced on the negative angle…

Creation myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:02 pmTuesday, May 17, 201133 Comments

Malcolm Gladwell writing for The New Yorker describes a visit by Steve Jobs…