PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.)

"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

PARC announces its certification as a Bay Area Green Business by the Santa Clara County Green Business Program. The two-year path to certification involved our site operations and volunteer "Green Team" task force working through an extensive checklist of measures and action items -- including energy and water conservation, facility and equipment operating procedures, employee practices, recycling and waste reduction, and pollution prevention. PARC is also a member of Sustainable Silicon Valley, and recently initiated an annual Sustainability Fellowship for graduate students seeking to help invent a sustainable future.