List of people associated with PARC explained

Many notable computer scientists and others have been associated with the Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (PARC), formerly Xerox PARC. They include:

• Nina Amenta (at PARC 1996–1997), researcher in computational geometry and computer graphics
• Anne Balsamo (at PARC 1999–2002), media studies scholar of connections between art, culture, gender, and technology
• Patrick Baudisch (at PARC 2000–2001), in human–computer interaction
• Daniel G. Bobrow (at PARC 1972–2017), artificial intelligence researcher
• Susanne Bødker (at PARC 1982–1983), researcher in human–computer interaction
• David Boggs (at PARC 1972–1982), computer network pioneer, coinventor of Ethernet
• Anita Borg (at PARC 1997–2003), computer systems researcher, advocate for women in computing
• John Seely Brown (at PARC 1978–2000), researcher in organizational studies, chief scientist of Xerox
• Bill Buxton (at PARC 1989–1994), pioneer in human–computer interaction
• Stuart Card (at PARC 1974-2010), applied human factors in human–computer interaction
• Robert Carr (at PARC in late 1970s), CAD and office software designer
• Ed Chi (at PARC 1997–2011), researcher in information visualization and the usability of web sites
• Elizabeth F. Churchill (at PARC 2004–2006), specialist in human-computer interaction and social computing
• Lynn Conway (at PARC 1973–1982), VLSI design pioneer and transgender activist
• Franklin C. Crow (at PARC circa 1982–1990), computer graphics expert who did early research in antialiasing
• Pavel Curtis (at PARC 1983–1996), pioneer in text-based online virtual reality systems
• Doug Cutting (at PARC 1990-1994), creator of Nutch, Lucene, and Hadoop
• Steve Deering (at PARC circa 1990–1996), internet engineer, lead designer of IPv6
• L Peter Deutsch (at PARC 1971–1986), implementor of LISP 1.5, Smalltalk, and Ghostscript
• David DiFrancesco (at PARC 1972–1974), worked with Richard Shoup on PAINT, cofounded Pixar
• Paul Dourish (at PARC mid-1990s), researcher at the intersection of computer science and social science
• W. Keith Edwards (at PARC 1996–2004), researcher in human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
• Jerome I. Elkind (at PARC 1971–1978), head of the Computer Science Laboratory at PARC
• Clarence Ellis (at PARC 1976–1984), first African American CS PhD, pioneered computer-supported cooperative work
• David Em (at PARC 1975), computer artist, first fine artist to create a computer model of a 3d character
• Bill English (at PARC 1971–1989), co-invented computer mouse
• David Eppstein (at PARC 1989–1990), researcher in computational geometry and graph algorithms
• John Ellenby (at PARC 1975–1978), Led AltoII development, 1979 founded GRID Systems
• Matthew K. Franklin (at PARC 1998–2000), developed pairing-based elliptic-curve cryptography
• Gaetano Borriello (at PARC 1980–1987),^[1] developed Open Data Kit
• Richard Fikes (at PARC 1976-1983), leader in representation and use of knowledge in computer systems, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
• Sean R. Garner (at PARC circa 2009–), researcher in photovoltaics and sustainable engineering
• Charles Geschke (at PARC 1972–1980), invented page description languages, cofounded Adobe
• Adele Goldberg (at PARC 1973–1986), codesigned Smalltalk, president of ACM
• Jack Goldman (at PARC 1970–),^[2] Xerox chief scientist 1968–1982, founded PARC in 1970
• Bill Gosper (at PARC 1977–1981), founded the hacker community, pioneered symbolic computation
• Rich Gossweiler (at PARC 1997–2000), software engineer, expert in interaction design
• Rebecca Grinter (at PARC 2000–2004), researcher in human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work
• Neil Gunther (at PARC 1982–1990), developed open-source performance modeling software
• Jürg Gutknecht (at PARC 1984–1985), programming language researcher, designer, with Niklaus Wirth
• Marti Hearst (at PARC 1994–1997), expert in computational linguistics and search engine user interfaces
• Jeffrey Heer (at PARC 2001-2005), expert in information visualization and interactive data analysis
• Bruce Horn (at PARC 1973–1981), member of original Apple Macintosh design team
• Bernardo Huberman (at PARC circa 1982–2000), applied chaos theory to web dynamics
• Dan Ingalls (at PARC circa 1972–1984), implemented Smalltalk virtual machine, invented bit blit
• Van Jacobson (at PARC 2006–), developed internet congestion control protocols and diagnostics
• Natalie Jeremijenko (at PARC 1995), installation artist
• Ted Kaehler (at PARC 1972–1985),^[3] developed key systems for original Smalltalk, later Apple HyperCard, Squeak
• Ronald Kaplan (at PARC 1974–2006), expert in natural language processing, helped develop Interlisp
• Jussi Karlgren (at PARC 1991-1992), known for work on stylistics, evaluation of search technology, and statistical semantics
• Lauri Karttunen (at PARC 1987–2011), developed finite state morphology in computational linguistics
• Alan Kay (at PARC 1971–1981), pioneered object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces
• Martin Kay (at PARC 1974–2002), expert on machine translation and computational linguistics
• Gregor Kiczales (at PARC 1984–2002), invented aspect-oriented programming
• Ralph Kimball (at PARC 1972–1982), designed first commercial workstation with mice, icons, and windows
• András Kornai (at PARC 1988-1991), mathematical linguist
• Butler Lampson (at PARC 1971–1983), won Turing Award for his development of networked personal computers
• David M. Levy (at PARC 1984–1999), researcher on information overload
• Jia Li (at PARC 1999–2000), researcher in computer vision and image retrieval
• Cristina Lopes (at PARC 1995–2002), researcher in aspect-oriented programming and ubiquitous computing
• Richard Francis Lyon (at PARC 1977–1981),^[4] built the first optical mouse
• Jock D. Mackinlay (at PARC 1986–2004) researcher in information visualization
• Cathy Marshall (at PARC circa 1989–2000), researcher on hypertext and personal archiving
• Edward M. McCreight (at PARC 1971–1989) co-invented B-trees
• Scott A. McGregor (at PARC 1978–1983)^[5] worked on Xerox Star, Viewers for Cedar and then Windows 1.0 at Microsoft
• Sheila McIlraith (at PARC 1997–1998), researcher in artificial intelligence and the semantic web
• Ralph Merkle (at PARC 1988–1999), invented public key cryptography and cryptographic hashing
• Diana Merry (at PARC circa 1971–1986), helped develop Smalltalk, co-invented bit blit
• Robert Metcalfe (at PARC 1972–1979), co-invented Ethernet, formulated Metcalfe's Law
• James G. Mitchell (at PARC 1971–1984), developed WATFOR compiler, Mesa (programming language), Spring (operating system), ARM RISC chip
• Louis Monier (at PARC 1983–1989), founded AltaVista search engine
• J Strother Moore (at PARC 1973-1976), text editing, Interlisp VM, string searching, theorem proving
• Thomas P. Moran (at PARC 1974–2001), founded journal Human-Computer Interaction
• James H. Morris (at PARC 1974–1982), co-invented KMP string matching algorithm and lazy evaluation
• Elizabeth Mynatt (at PARC 1995–1998), studied digital family portraits and ubiquitous computing
• Greg Nelson (at PARC 1980–1981),^[6] satisfiability modulo theories, extended static checking, program verification, Modula-3, theorem prover
• Martin Newell (at PARC 1979–1981),^[7] graphics expert who created the Utah teapot
• William Newman (at PARC 1973–1979), Graphics and HCI researcher, developed drawing and page description software
• Geoffrey Nunberg (at PARC 1987–2001), linguist known for his work on lexical semantics
• Severo Ornstein (at PARC 1976–1983), founding head of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Valeria de Paiva (at PARC 2000–2008), uses logic and category theory to model natural language
• George Pake (at PARC 1970–1986), pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance, founding director of PARC
• Jan O. Pedersen (at PARC circa 1990-1996), researcher in search system technology and algorithms
• Peter Pirolli (at PARC 1991–2016), developed information foraging theory
• Calvin Quate (at PARC 1983–1994),^[8] invented the atomic force microscope
• Ashwin Ram (at PARC circa 2011–2016), researcher on artificial intelligence for health applications
• Trygve Reenskaug (at PARC 1978–1979), formulated model–view–controller user interface design
• George G. Robertson (at PARC circa 1988–1995), information visualization expert
• Daniel M. Russell (at PARC 1982–1993), AI and UI research; later at Apple, then at Google, where he calls himself a search anthropologist
• Eric Schmidt (at PARC 1982–1983), CEO of Google and chairman of Alphabet
• Ronald V. Schmidt (at PARC 1980–1985), computer network engineer who founded SynOptics
• Michael Schroeder (at PARC circa 1977–1985), co-invented Needham–Schroeder protocol for encrypted networking
• Bertrand Serlet (at PARC 1985–1989), led the Mac OS X team
• Scott Shenker (at PARC 1984–1998), leader in software-defined networking
• John Shoch (at PARC 1971–1980), developed an important predecessor of TCP/IP networking
• Richard Shoup (at PARC 1971–1978), invented SUPERPAINT and the first 8 bit Frame Buffer (picture memory), 1979 cofounded Aurora
• Charles Simonyi (at PARC 1972-1981), led the creation of Microsoft Office
• Alvy Ray Smith (at PARC 1974), cofounded Pixar
• Brian Cantwell Smith (at PARC 1982–1996), invented introspective programming and researches computational metaphors
• David Canfield Smith (at PARC 1975), invented interface icons, programming by demonstration, worked on graphical user interface, Xerox Star
• Robert Spinrad (at PARC 1978–1982), designed vacuum tube computers, directed PARC
• Bob Sproull (at PARC 1973–1977), designed early head-mounted display, wrote widely used computer graphics textbook
• Jessica Staddon (at PARC 2001–2010), information privacy researcher
• Gary Starkweather (at PARC 1970–1988), invented laser printers and color management
• Maureen C. Stone (at PARC circa 1980–1998), expert in color modeling
• Lucy Suchman (at PARC 1980–2000), researcher on human factors, cybercultural anthropology, and feminist theory
• Bert Sutherland (at PARC 1975–1981), brought social scientists to PARC
• Robert Taylor (at PARC 1970–1983), managed early ARPAnet development, founded DEC Systems Research Center
• Warren Teitelman (at PARC 1972–1984), designed Interlisp
• Shang-Hua Teng (at PARC 1991–1992), invented smoothed analysis of algorithms and near-linear-time Laplacian solvers
• Larry Tesler (at PARC 1973–1980), developed Object Pascal and Apple Newton
• Chuck Thacker (at PARC 1971–1983), chief designer of Alto, co-invented Ethernet
• John Warnock (at PARC 1978–1982), cofounded Adobe
• Mark Weiser (at PARC 1987–1999), invented ubiquitous computing
• Niklaus Wirth (at PARC 1976–1977 and 1984–1985), designed Pascal and other programming languages
• Frances Yao (at PARC 1979–1999), researcher in computational geometry and combinatorial algorithms
• Nick Yee (at PARC 2005-2012), researcher in psychology and sociology of virtual environments
• Annie Zaenen (at PARC 2001–2011), researcher on linguistic encoding of temporal and spatial information
• Lixia Zhang (at PARC 1989–1996), computer networking pioneer

Notes and References

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2. Kirk. Jeremy. Heichler. Elizabeth. December 22, 2011. Xerox PARC founder Jacob E. Goldman dies. Computerworld.
3. Web site: Ted Kaehler: A Technical Tour of Ted's Projects. Kaehler. Ted. Ted Kaehler. 15 May 2017. Ted Kaehler's Homepage. Weather Dimensions. 5 February 2021.
4. Web site: Dick Lyon. LinkedIn. 3 July 2017.
5. Book: Wallace. James. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire. Erickson. Jim. June 1, 1993. Harper Business. 978-0887306297.
6. PhD . Nelson . Greg . 1980–1981 . Techniques for Program Verification . Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences . University of California Berkeley . 2021-04-13.
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8. Web site: 2000 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science Recipient. American Physical Society. 4 July 2017. en.