This article originally appeared on the blog of author Ken Shirriff and is reprinted here with his permission. Alan Kay recently gave his 1970s Xerox Alto to Y Combinator, and I’m helping with the ...

Xerox Corp. on Monday introduced software that lets people use paper to communicate with personal computers, an invention that allows long-distance computing by facsimile machine. The product, which ...

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One of the great pioneers of the computer age, credited with designing the first personal computer, has died at the age of 74. Charles Thacker, who built the first personal computer while a member of ...

It's no secret that Xerox helped invent the modern computer. At the famed Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox researchers dreamt up everything from the graphical user interface and laser printing to ...