X-Nico

9 unusual facts about Xerox


Charles T. Lanham

He resigned in 1958 and joined Xerox in 1960 as Vice President for Government Relations, retiring from that post at the end of 1970.

Copybooks

The most common type are printed on copy paper using a Xerox machine or other home copy device.

Esther M. Conwell

In 1972 she joined the Xerox Wilson Research Center, where she was a Research Fellow from 1981 to 1998.

Let My People Go: The Story of Israel

The film was broadcast in the United States in April 1965 on a nationwide network of independent stations, with the sponsorship of the Xerox Corporation.

Lorenzo Lanzi

A series of 8 successive top ten finishes earned him a promotion at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz round where he raced for the Xerox sponsored Ducati factory team in place of the injured Régis Laconi.

Netscape portable runtime

Thread synchronization loosely depends on monitors as described by C. A. R. Hoare in "Monitors: An operating system structuring concept", Communications of the ACM, 17(10), October 1974 and then formalized by Xerox' Mesa programming language ("Mesa Language Manual", J.G. Mitchell et al., Xerox PARC, CSL-79-3 (Apr 1979)).

Rochester school

Among its key figures were William H. Riker and Kenneth Shepsle, who popularised the study of public choice following a large donation from Xerox, a company based in the same city as the university.

Structure, sequence and organization

Both companies drew criticism, since key elements of their look and feel had been introduced earlier by VisiCalc and Xerox.

Stuart Pugh

Other companies such as Land-Rover and Xerox have benefited from adopting Pugh’s structured design process.


3+Share

3+Share included the EtherShare and EtherPrint protocols, which leveraged Xerox's XNS network protocol.

Andrew Szanton

During his career he has worked with a wide range of subjects including civil rights pioneer Charles Evers, Nobel Prize winning physicist Eugene Wigner, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs John Whitehead, former United States Senator Edward Brooke, founding director of Xerox PARC George Pake, eminent surgeon Dr. Charles Epps, and head of the Missouri Botanical Garden Peter Raven.

Anne Balsamo

John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) argues that Balsamo "portrays both the necessity and the challenge of cultivating the technological imagination in all of us...Her insights into expanding the traditional considerations of socio-technical design to consider issues of culture are coming at a critical time."

Anne M. Mulcahy

In addition to serving on the Xerox board, she has been a member of the boards of directors of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., Fuji Xerox Co.

Charles Peter McColough

Aside from building Xerox to the corporate empire it is today, McColough was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee between 1974 and 1976, was Chairman of United Way of America, and served on the Board of Trustees at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York Stock Exchange, Bank of New York, Wachovia, Citigroup, Knight Ridder, and Union Carbide Corporation.

DocuTech

Although this system's network connectivity was limited to Xerox's proprietary XNS network, a DocuTech Network Server was also offered which enabled the now growing family of DocuTech Publishing Systems to be utilized with a broader set of networks.

Duplex printing

Some of the original Duplex Units were designed by David Precht while working with Gary Starkweather while working at Xerox.

Economy of Reading, Berkshire

Other technology companies with a significant presence in the town include Agilent Technologies, Assuria, Audio & Design (Recording) Ltd, Bang & Olufsen, Cisco, Ericsson, Harris Corporation, Intel, Nvidia, Sage, Sagem Orga, SGI, Symantec, Symbol Technologies, Verizon Business, Virgin Media, Websense, Xansa (now Steria), and Xerox.

EFTP

John Shoch, EFTP: A PUP-based Ether File Transfer Protocol (Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, June 1976)

Ethernet

With such business implications in mind, David Liddle (General Manager, Xerox Office Systems) and Metcalfe (3Com) strongly supported a proposal of Fritz Röscheisen (Siemens Private Networks) for an alliance in the emerging office communication market, including Siemens' support for the international standardization of Ethernet (April 10, 1981).

Fitts's law

This early work, according to Stuart Card's biography, "was a major factor leading to the mouse's commercial introduction by Xerox".

Hexachrome

Some software companies that employed the Hexachrome system were Aldus (now Adobe), Adobe Photoshop, and QuarkXPress; as well as the printer manufacturers HP, Epson, and Xerox.

IGES

USAF accepted this offer and contracted NIST to bring together a group of users and vendors, including Boeing, General Electric, Xerox, Computervision, Applicon and others to further develop and test this software.

Indigo Digital Press

The company's first product would be a digital plotter/duplicator, bringing the tiny company (its 1991 sales totaled less than US$5 million, generating a profit of $440,000) head to head with such industry giants as Xerox and Canon.

Ironbound Films

Ironbound also creates videos for various clients, including corporations Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox; charities LCU Foundation and Episcopal Charities; and museums Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Janet Evans

After retiring from competitive swimming, Evans worked as a motivational speaker and corporate spokesperson for companies such as AT&T, Speedo, Campbell's, PowerBar, John Hancock, Cadillac, and Xerox.

Klára Dobrev

Dobrev spent her internship at MODI XEROX as a marketing assistant at Bangalore, India.

LaserWriter

Laser printing traces its history to efforts by Gary Starkweather at Xerox in 1969, which resulted in a commercial system called the Xerox 9700.

Metaphor Computer Systems

David Liddle and Donald Massaro founded Metaphor in 1982 after leaving Xerox PARC.

Mike Dow

Quality Micro Systems, a printer manufacturing company, at one time competed with giants like Hewlett Packard, Canon, Xerox, and Tektronix and was listed in the Fortune 500.

NSSC-1

The NSSC-1 had an assembler/loader/simulator toolset hosted on Xerox XDS 930 (24- bit) mainframe.

Patent thicket

The expression may come from SCM Corp. v. Xerox Corp. patent litigation case in the 1970s, wherein SCM's central charge had been that Xerox constructed a "patent thicket" to prevent competition.

Peter Carlisle

Along with administering the Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office, Carlisle personally prosecuted several cases during his term, including the mass murder trial of Byran Uyesugi who shot and killed seven of his co-workers at a Xerox warehouse in Honolulu.

Pierre Isabelle

In 1999 he joined the Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) in Grenoble, France, where he managed the Content Analysis area until he joined the NRC in 2005.

Ritz Camera Centers

In 2007 and early 2008, Ritz began installing Oki and Xerox equipment in their locations to enable the production of hard-back photo books, photo calendars, and custom greeting cards by customers via in-store kiosks or through RitzPix.com for in-store pick up.

Sigma 6

The SDS Sigma 6 computer, made by Scientific Data Systems (SDS), later known as Xerox Data Systems (XDS)

The Hard Copy Observer

The first edition was 28 pages in length, and featured front-page stories about Xerox, Apple Computer, and Dataproducts.

Universal Time-Sharing System

CP-6 was a command line oriented system, no GUI interface (as GUIs had only just been invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)).

Visi On

In July 1981 Xerox announced the Xerox Star workstation, and by that point it was a well known "secret" that Apple Computer was working on a low-cost version that would later be known as the Lisa.

Xceed Financial Credit Union

Xceed Financial Credit Union is a credit union and financial institution serving Xerox, OfficeMax, Seneca Park Zoo, Heal the Bay, Webster Public Library, more than 200 additional select employer groups (SEGs), organizations, and communities nationwide.

Xerox Daybreak

It ran the ViewPoint (later GlobalView) GUI and was used extensively throughout Xerox until being replaced by Suns and PCs.

Xerox DocuShare

DocuShare can also be used with third party imaging tools including Kofax, Cardiff Teleform, SRC Conveyor, WaterWare ScanManager, Polgroup StrategicValueWare, NSI AutoStore, Xerox Smart Document Travel, SRC File Clerk, ScanFlowStore, eCopy, Visioneer OneTouch, EzeScan, Nuance PaperPort, and DSI Software Systems.

Xerox India

Originally Modi Xerox, the business was derived from a joint venture formed between Dr Bhupendra Kumar Modi through ModiCorp (now Spice Group) and Rank Xerox in September 1983.

Yotaro Kobayashi

Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is former chairman of the Fuji Xerox company, a joint venture between Fujifilm (75%) and Xerox (25%).


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