Daniel G. Bobrow is a senior researcher at Xerox PARC.
David R. Boggs lives in northern California, where he designs and markets a new generation of networking circuit boards.
John Seely Brown is chief scientist of Xerox and director of PARC.
Lynn A. Conway is professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan.
L. Peter Deutsch lives in northern California, where he develops and markets a version of GhostScript, a page description language related to PostScript.
William Duvall, who lives in Idaho, invented Surfwatch, a program to prevent children from inadvertently encountering objectionable websites while surfing the Internet.
Jerome I. Elkind is retired and living in northern California, where he is helping develop software to help the disabled use computers.
John Ellenby founded Grid Systems to develop and market laptop computers, then sold it to Tandy Corporation, the owner of the Radio Shack retail chain. He has since founded GeoVector, which develops and markets marine navigation and communication devices.
Douglas Fairbairn is a vice president and general manager at Cadence Design Systems, a maker of VLSI design tools in San Jose, California.
Edward R. Fiala is a senior researcher at Adobe Systems in San Jose, California.
Charles M. Geschke is co-founder and co-chairman (with John Warnock), and president of Adobe Systems, Inc.
Adele Goldberg is a co-founder of Neometron, a Redwood City, California, company that develops learning and management tools for the Internet and other projects. Earlier she co-founded ParcPlace, a joint venture with Xerox to develop Smalltalk applications.
Jacob E. Goldman is retired and living in Connecticut, where he is a private investor.
William F. Gunning is largely retired, but still reports regularly to his Xerox office in Palo Alto.
Harold H. Hall retired to his family home in South Dakota.
Chris Jeffers is president of Teklicon, a northern California firm that provides experts on science and technology for parties involved in lawsuits and patent and insurance cases.
Richard E. Jones retired from Xerox in 1998. He lives in southern California.
Alan C. Kay is a fellow at Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, California, where his research group includes Ted Kaehler and Daniel H. Ingalls. He worked briefly at Atari after leaving PARC and subsequently joined Apple Computer as an Apple Fellow, leaving in 1996.
Butler W. Lampson is a fellow at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
David Liddle is chairman and chief executive officer of Interval Research Corporation, a high-technology think tank located within walking distance of PARC and funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Edward M. McCreight is a senior researcher at Adobe Systems in San Jose, California.
Carver A. Mead is Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology.
Diana Merry-Shapiro lives in New York City and works for J. P. Morgan & Co. as a consultant on Smalltalk-based programming systems.
Robert M. Metcalfe co-founded 3Com Corporation in 1979 and retired from the company in 1990, when its annual revenues approached one-half-billion dollars. He is vice president/technology at International Data Group, a publisher of computer industry trade journals, and a weekly columnist on networking and telecommunications issues for IDG’s Info World.
James G. Mitchell is vice president for technology and architecture for the Javasoft division of Sun Microsystems, the developer of the Java programming language.
James H. Morris is H. A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and chairman of the department of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Timothy Mott is a venture capital investor and lives in Idaho.
Severo Ornstein is retired and living with his wife, the former PARC researcher Laura Gould, in northern California. In 1981, concerned about the threat of nuclear war, he co-founded Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
George E. Pake is retired and living in northern California.
Max Palevsky is a self-employed industrialist and private investor in Southern California.
Ron Rider is vice president of Xerox’s Digital Imaging Technology Center in Palo Alto.
John F. Shoch is a venture capital investor at Asset Management Inc. in northern California.
Richard Shoup, who has been awarded an Emmy and an Oscar for his work on digital paint systems, left PARC in 1979 to cofound Aurora Systems, a developer and manufacturer of digital videographic and animation system. In 1993 he joined Interval Research Corporation.
Charles Simonyi works at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he is developing a programming system known as “intentional programming.”
Alvy Ray Smith was director of computer graphics research at Lucasfilm and a co-founder of its spinoff, Pixar. He joined Microsoft as its first graphics fellow in 1994.
William J. Spencer, who retired in 1990 as Xerox’s chief technical officer, is chairman of Sematech, a joint research initiative formed by ten U.S. semiconductor companies.
Robert Spinrad retired as Xerox vice president for technology strategy in 1998. He lives in northern California.
Robert F. Sproull is a vice president of Sun Microsystems, Inc., and a fellow of Sun Laboratories, its research center.
M. Frank Squires joined Sematech in 1991 as chief administrative officer. He died in May 1998, shortly after being named managing director of the consortium’s international branch.
Gary K. Starkweather, who joined Apple Computer after leaving PARC, is now a fellow at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.
Paul Strassmann lives in Connecticut, where he is a private consultant on corporate information management.
William R. (Bert) Sutherland is vice president of Sun Microsystems, Inc., and director of Sun Laboratories, its research center, which he joined upon its founding in 1990.
Robert W. Taylor retired as director of Digital Equipment Corp.’s Systems Research Laboratory in 1997. He lives in northern California.
Warren Teitelman is Vice President of Research and Development at BayStone Software, a developer of integrated sales and marketing software for corporate clients.
Lawrence G. Tesler, who stayed at Apple Computer until 1998, rising to the position of chief scientist, is now president of Stagecast Inc., a developer of interactive simulation software in Palo Alto, California.
Charles P. Thacker worked for DEC until 1997, when he resigned from the Systems Research Center to join Microsoft Research in Cambridge, U.K.
David Thornburg, director of the Thornburg Center for Professional Development, is a lecturer and consultant on the uses of technology in education.
John C. Urbach is retired and living in northern California.
John Warnock is co-founder and co-chairman (with Chuck Geschke) and chief executive officer of Adobe Systems.