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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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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. |
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The Paper Chasers -- Newsweek
"At PARC...scientists have discovered something surprising: their expertise in printing transfers surprisingly well to technologies like solar panels. For instance, PARC's expertise in optics and lenses helped a company called SolFocus develop a new kind of photovoltaic cells for solar-energy systems. PARC's expertise in particle manipulation, developed while researching toners, has led to a water-filtration system that uses much less energy than conventional methods; it could find use in municipal water-treatment plants and desalinization plants." More about this work...
Black Swans and Greenwashing -- Greentech Media
"But today I received some bad news from Vinod Khosla, an investor sort, who spoke at the Palo Alto Research Center [PARC Forum] on Thursday... Second only to the greenwashed concepts mentioned, Mr. Khosla’s pet peeve is bad forecasting based of extrapolating the past when we should be 'inventing the future.' ...According to him, the new green is 'Maintech' not 'Cleantech' and we need to go after huge markets like engines, lighting, appliances, cement, water, glass and buildings and not fritter away our time and effort on PV and wind." Watch this talk/ learn more about PARC Forum...
Earth-friendly Paper -- ZDNet [video]
"It's a possible fix for the reams and reams of paper that are printed, used briefly, and then tossed everyday. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes us inside PARC where scientists are developing a way to print an image that disappears, allowing the paper to be used dozens of times." Related research...
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