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"PARC: Seeding Innovation"
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PARC works closely with varied enterprises and new ventures to discover breakthrough business and technology concepts that solve real needs, and transform how enterprises deliver value to customers. PARC takes an agile, multidisciplinary approach to open innovation – by bringing together physical, computer, biological, and social scientists who have the vision, expertise, and instinct to convert groundbreaking scientific findings into industrial-strength prototypes.

Incorporated in 2002 as an independent research business, PARC is celebrated for such innovations as laser printing, distributed computing and Ethernet, the graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming, and ubiquitous computing. PARC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation.

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SPOTLIGHT

Inside innovation at Xerox: A glimpse at works in progress

PARC (a Xerox Company) hosted “Inside Innovation at Xerox,” a two-day event featuring technology presentations by scientists from New York, Toronto, France, Palo Alto, and Oregon as well as from Xerox’s partners Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. from Tokyo, and XMPie from Israel. The event showcased 10 new technologies that benefit the workplace, healthcare, and the environment, including three areas from PARC: cleantech, biomedical systems, and security & privacy.

 
UPCOMING EVENTS

May 15, 2008
PARC Forum: The Near-Term Approach to the Artificial Pancreas

May 21, 2008
California Clean Tech Open Executive Summary Workshop

May 22, 2008
PARC Forum: MEMS based ultrasonic transducers in medical imaging, therapy and sensing

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