Exercise 6.6

Planning a web report

Introduction

Explain who Xerox  is what it had been doing up until this point and that the norm in computing was the command line interface CLI.

Main Body.

Show what  came out of the research.

Ethernet
WYSIWYG
bit mapping
Laser printer
most important "away of working"

list the backgrounds, roles and contributions of the main players

Bob Taylor's way of working (flat organization)
Doug Engelbart  (user interface)
Butler Lampson / Chuck Thacker (Alto)
 

explain the kinds of research that is done .

basic and R&D

Conclusion

Explain that Xerox PARC (as a company) did nothing with the technologies they created but influenced generations of future high tech companies in a way of working, and provided them with the tools for the job.

Lay out

web page format with internal and external links.

internal
back to top, Introduction, etc.

external.
http://www.xerox.com/   (Xerox today)
http://www.parc.xerox.com/parc-go.html (PARC today)
http://www.parc.xerox.com/history.html  (Presented here are some of the highlights of PARC's work.)