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...certainly wasn't alone in this. Many of my contemporaries at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory in the '70s and '80s can tell similar stories. My point is not to boast about our exploits but to point out that most of what passes for new at any given time has in fact been around for quite a while. Or, to steal a line from the science-fiction writer William Gibson, "The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed...
...took a poky path to market. The first model was built in 1964 by Doug Engelbart and William English, of the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. By the early 1970s, many of us at Xerox PARC had become point-and-click fans, using state-of-the-art Alto computers. But beyond that little world, few people were aware of the device until Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple Macintosh in 1984. It took Microsoft's Windows 95 to take the mouse mainstream--some 30 years after its invention...
Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 said he has spent the summer in Palo Alto, Calif., with collaborators working on a new website called Wirehog, a file-sharing site that will be integrated with thefacebook.com. He said he hopes to launch the new site on Aug. 25, although it may be delayed until the first week of September...
...biomedical research capacity and one-third of its biotech companies. The bond initiative, if it passes, would pay to build 12 to 15 new stem-cell research centers, a massive magnet for scientific talent. "California will be the center of stem-cell research for the world," predicts Palo Alto real estate developer Robert Klein, co-chairman of the initiative campaign. Klein, who has contributed $1.4 million of his money toward the effort, touts the economic benefits, forecasting $70 million in tax revenues from new jobs even before any cures are discovered. And if cures are found, the profits would accrue...
...unlike the heckling which was to come at Stanford, the Crimson enjoyed a relatively mellow time at Berkeley. The matches were played on six courts which lay next to each other, unlike the next day at Palo Alto, where the matches were split into groups of three...