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Xerox innovation brings together many disciplines and technical competencies. Xerox is unique in this respect in that its research has spanned everything from basic physical sciences, mechanical and electrical engineering through to social science and psychology. Xerox’s research and technology centers around the world each provide their own unique perspective.
Xerox Research Centre of Canada
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XRCC is Xerox’s materials research center, enabling the flow of leading-edge imaging and consumable materials from research concepts to supplies solutions. Founded in 1974, XRCC leverages its core competencies in materials design, synthesis, characterization, evaluation and scale-up to deliver -- with partners -- environmentally sound materials and processes that support higher-quality and lower-cost color and monochrome products for both office and production markets.
Specifically, XRCC conducts fundamental and applied materials research in toners, inks, photoreceptors and specialty substrates to support xerographic and direct marking technologies. An example of its breakthrough research is a chemical toner called “Emulsion Aggregation (EA) Technology,” which uses nanotechnology methodology and yields sharper image quality, higher reliability, reduced toner usage, faster warm-up time and environmentally friendly manufacturing process.
Research in organic electronic materials in the areas of digital document media, displays, and printed organic electronic consumables is also being carried out to bridge the gap between paper and electronic documents. This research is also focused on applications of nanotechnology.
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Xerox Research Centre Europe
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Xerox established its European research center in France in the early 90’s to create innovative document technology and drive the corporate transition in becoming a services-led technology business. The center coordinates research, engineering and the Technology Showroom, a customer showcase for Xerox research and a technology exchange forum.
The center also develops connections within the wider European scientific community through collaborative projects and partnerships.
XRCE focuses its research in text and image content processing, document transformations, data mining and the study and understanding of work practices.
Technology applications are developed which streamline document intensive processes, bridge the paper and digital worlds and ease the task of information management in multiple languages. The centre is at the heart of many of the components in Xerox’s ‘Smarter Document Management’ suite such as text and image categorization, XML document conversion and linguistic analysis tools. The center’s research expertise includes natural language processing, machine learning, XML, computer vision, computer science, mathematics, datamining and ethnography.
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Xerox Research Center Webster
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The Xerox Research Center Webster has a broad charter to explore, incubate and innovate across the spectrum of devices, solutions and services. Internationally recognized for pioneering work in xerography, these labs were founded in 1960 and have provided the technical foundation and intellectual property protection for four generations of Xerox marking engines. More recently, the XRCW has expanded its charter to encompass an integrated, end-to-end view of Xerox products, solutions and services technologies in collaboration with value-chain partners throughout the company.
In Xerox Research Center Webster labs, world-class scientists investigate systems integration and design, solid ink technology, the control of complex imaging and printing systems, and the architectures and systems for advanced digital imaging and workflow technologies. Its researchers lead the drive to provide Xerox customers with affordable color products and with services and solutions that help them both simplify and get more value from their document-intensive business processes.
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Palo Alto Research Center
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PARC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation and an integral part of Xerox’s strategy for long-term research investment. Founded in 1970 as a part of Xerox Research, PARC was incorporated in 2002 as an independent research business.
As the birthplace of technologies such as laser printing, Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and ubiquitous computing, PARC has an established track record for transforming industries and creating commercial value. PARC has delivered lasting value to Xerox, for example, as laser printing became a multibillion-dollar business for Xerox. PARC also was the birthplace of Xerox’s DocuPrint network printing software, the dual-beam lasers used in many Xerox products, and the scheduling software of the Xerox DocuColor iGen3 Digital Production Press.
Xerox continues to embed relevant PARC technology into its product and solutions offerings. PARC is also delivering its innovations to a wider range of non-competitive industry partners than ever before. Together, PARC and Xerox are defining a new vision for how pioneering research creates commercial impact. Current research includes diverse areas such as biomedical systems and bioinformatics, cleantech, enterprise and collective knowledge systems, ethnography, human information interaction / HCI, intelligent control and autonomous systems, intelligent image recognition, large-area electronics, MEMS, microfluidics, and novel materials, natural language processing, ad-hoc and sensor networking, optoelectronics and optical systems, security and privacy, and ubiquitous computing.
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Xerox Research Centre India
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The Xerox Research Centre India is Xerox’s latest global research location. Initiated in January 2009, the Xerox Research Centre India's charter is to explore, develop and incubate innovative document solutions and services for our global customers, with a special focus on emerging markets.
Research activities at the hub are aimed at exploring and developing innovative document management solutions for emerging markets by bringing Xerox’s world class expertise in imaging, smart document management, linguistics, and ethnography to address locally relevant problems. An equally important focus is on leveraging latest technologies and paradigms such as cloud and web computing, human computation, social networks and computational economics to advance innovation in solutions and services delivery for Xerox’s global markets.
Open Innovation is at the core of how research is conducted at the hub, which brings together scientists and engineers from across Xerox in close collaborative research partnerships with leading academic institutions, research labs, and industry partners. An extensive fellowship and internship program complements the Open Innovation partnerships.
A Xerox technology showroom, planned to open shortly, will share the newest technology developments from our research centres around the world with Xerox customers and partners in India and surrounding regions. The showroom will support the Xerox Innovation Group’s Customer Led Innovation approach and help researchers at the Xerox Research Centre India learn more about customer needs and pain points, particularly in India and the emerging world.
The Xerox Research Centre India is located in Chennai, India.
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