The Role of Silicon Valley in Corporate Innovation
In 1969, the senior leadership of Xerox (based in Rochester, New York) decided to create a new corporate research and innovation center and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) born. Since then, PARC has played a significant role in the creation and enhancement of many of the technologies we take for granted today: Computer-generated bitmap graphics The graphical user interface, featuring windows and icons, operated with a mouse The WYSIWYG text editor Interpress, a resolu