Xerox Corporation
Joseph C. Wilson, chief executive officer (1961–1967); chairman (1966–1971)
C. Peter McColough, chief executive officer (1968–1982); chairman (1971–1985)
David T. Kearns, chief executive officer (1982–1990); chairman (1985–1991)
Jacob E. Goldman, chief scientist; founder of PARC
George White, assistant to Goldman
Paul Strassmann, information technology supervisor
Shelby Carter, national sales director
Don Massaro, head of Office Products Division after 1979
The Palo Alto Research Center
ADMINISTRATION
George E. Pake, director (1970–1978); head of Xerox research (1978–1985)
Robert Spinrad, director (1978–1982)
William J. Spencer, director (1982–1985); head of Xerox research (1985–)
Richard E. Jones, chief administrative officer
M. Frank Squires, chief personnel officer
Gloria Warner, secretary to Pake
COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY
Jerome I. Elkind, laboratory manager (1971–1978)
Robert W. Taylor, associate manager
Butler W. Lampson, key contributor to the Alto personal computer, Ethernet networking system, laser printer, Mesa programming language, Dorado computer, Dandelion processor
Charles P. Thacker, designer of MAXC time-sharing system and Alto and co-inventor of Ethernet
Bob Metcalfe, principal inventor of Ethernet
David Boggs, co-inventor of Ethernet
Dick Shoup, inventor of Superpaint, pioneering video graphic device
Charles Simonyi, developer of Bravo word processing program with “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) capability
Peter Deutsch, expert programmer
Ed McCreight, hardware designer of MAXC time-sharing system and the Alto
Ed Fiala, co-designer of MAXC
Ron Rider, designer of the research character generator, adjunct to the laser printer
John Ellenby, head planner of Futures Day presentation (1977), at which PARC technology was introduced to Xerox senior management
Charles Geschke, co-developer of Mesa programming language and Interpress page description language
John Warnock, co-developer of Interpress and other printing and page description systems
Severo Ornstein, supervisor of the Dorado computer project
SYSTEMS SCIENCE LABORATORY
William F. Gunning, manager (1970–1973)
Harold H. Hall, manager (1973–1975), later the first manager of System Development Division, established to commercialize PARC technology
William R. (Bert) Sutherland, manager (1975–1981)
Alan C. Kay, head of the Learning Research Group (LRG), conceptualizer of the “Dynabook” personal computer and Smalltalk programming language
Daniel H. Ingalls, LRG member, developer of “BitBlt” graphic program and principal developer of Smalltalk
Adele Goldberg, LRG member, learning specialist and co-developer of Smalltalk
Ted Kaehler, LRG member, co-developer of Smalltalk and “Twang” music program
Diana Merry, LRG member and co-developer of Smalltalk
Larry Tesler, LRG member, co-designer of Gypsy user-friendly word processing program and first PARC principal scientist to be hired by Apple
John Shoch, LRG member, inventor of the Worm
Tim Mott, co-designer of Gypsy
Chris Jeffers, childhood friend of Kay’s and “chief of staff” of LRG
Gary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer
Lynn Conway, co-developer (with Carver Mead) of VLSI tools and technology allowing the design of highly complex integrated circuits on silicon chips
Douglas Fairbairn, hardware implementer of POLOS and co-designer (with Tesler) of the Notetaker portable computer
Bill English, head of POLOS (PARC On-Line Office System) group, early but unsuccessful multimedia office network
Bill Duvall, chief designer of POLOS
David Liddle, head of System Development Division after 1978, supervisor of the development of the Xerox Star, first fully realized commercial version of a PARC computer
GENERAL SCIENCE LABORATORY
Gerald Lucovsky, associate manager (reporting to Pake)
David Thornburg, scientist
David Biegelsen, scientist
OPTICAL SCIENCE LABORATORY (AFTER 1973):
John C. Urbach, manager
OTHERS:
Max Palevsky, founder of Scientific Data Systems (SDS), sold to Xerox in 1969
Rigdon Currie, chief of sales at SDS
Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and author of “Spacewar,” 1972 article in Rolling Stone that introduced PARC to the general public
Carver Mead, California Institute of Technology professor and co-developer of VLSI tools and technology at PARC
James Clark, principal inventor of the “Geometry Engine” graphics chip at PARC, founder of Silicon Graphics Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp.
Wesley Clark, pioneering designer of digital computers and consultant to PARC
Steven Jobs, co-founder and chief executive of Apple Computer