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Can Xerox's PARC, a Silicon Valley Icon, Find New Life with SRI?


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Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

  • Xerox executives had always responded that though they did not successfully compete in the computer market, they got a huge return on their investment by commercializing the laser printer technology PARC invented. ...
  • Xerox was accused of "fumbling the future," by not effectively commercializing the technology it invented to become a major player in the computer industry. ...
  • No momentum supporting factor found

    Challenge supporting factors

  • (parc,technology,silicon_valley)
  • (parc,technology,influence)
  • (parc,technology,heartland)
  • (parc,silicon_valley,heartland)
  • (laboratory,parc,influence)
  • (parc,influence)
  • (parc,silicon_valley,influence)
  • (parc,heartland)
  • (parc,commercializing)
  • (parc,technology,commercializing)
  • (parc,computers)
  • (parc,technology,computers)
  • (sri,executive)
  • (laboratory,parc,industry)
  • (parc,sri,industry)
  • Work-in-progress supporting factors

  • (parc,computer,technology)
  • (parc,computer,commercializing)
  • (parc,sri,model)
  • (computer,sri,world_wide_web)
  • (computer,world_wide_web)
  • (computer,hypertext)
  • (computer,sri,hypertext)
  • (computer,douglas_engelbart)
  • (computer,sri,douglas_engelbart)
  • (computer,technology)
  • (computer,commercializing)
  • (parc,industry,commercializing)
  • (parc,computer,world_wide_web)
  • (parc,sri,world_wide_web)
  • (sri,world_wide_web)

  • Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report49.12 0.00 50.88

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
    (1) (parc,computer,technology)100.00
    (2) (parc,computer,commercializing)97.43
    (3) (parc,technology,silicon_valley)79.89
    (4) (parc,technology,influence)74.32
    (5) (parc,technology,heartland)70.33
    (6) (parc,technology,commercializing)68.47
    (7) (computer,technology)64.05
    (8) (parc,sri,model)63.34
    (9) (computer,sri,world_wide_web)60.77
    (10) (computer,world_wide_web)60.20
    (11) (computer,commercializing)59.20
    (12) (parc,silicon_valley,heartland)57.63
    (13) (computer,hypertext)56.35
    (14) (computer,sri,hypertext)54.92
    (15) (computer,douglas_engelbart)53.64
    (16) (parc,sri,executive)52.35
    (17) (computer,sri,douglas_engelbart)52.21
    (18) (parc,model)48.50
    (19) (parc,industry,commercializing)47.79
    (20) (parc,computers)47.22
    (21) (parc,computer,world_wide_web)46.65
    (22) (parc,sri,world_wide_web)46.50
    (23) (sri,world_wide_web)46.08
    (24) (parc,computer,sri)45.93
    (25) (parc,computer,market)45.22
    (26) (computer,sri,lab)44.79
    (27) (parc,computer,lab)44.65
    (28) (parc,computer,investment)44.37
    (29) (parc,computer,industry)44.08
    (30) (parc,technology,industry)43.51
    (31) (parc,computer,hypertext)42.37
    (32) (computer,sri,forerunner)41.94
    (33) (parc,computer,forerunner)41.80
    (34) (parc,computer,douglas_engelbart)40.51
    (35) (laboratory,parc,influence)39.51
    (36) (parc,influence)38.80
    (37) (parc,silicon_valley,influence)38.23
    (38) (parc,heartland)36.80
    (39) (parc,commercializing)34.81
    (40) (parc,technology,strength)33.95
    (41) (parc,technology,market)33.81
    (42) (parc,technology,investment)33.67
    (43) (parc,technology,halcyon)33.52
    (44) (parc,technology,computers)32.95
    (45) (parc,executive,model)32.81
    (46) (sri,executive)32.24
    (47) (sri,model)30.96
    (48) (laboratory,executive)30.96
    (49) (parc,executive,invention)30.81
    (50) (parc,sri,invention)30.24
    (51) (laboratory,parc,executive)30.10
    (52) (sri,invention)29.81
    (53) (laboratory,parc,industry)29.67
    (54) (parc,sri,industry)28.96
    (55) (parc,industry,executive)27.25
    (56) (sri,parekh,executive)25.25
    (57) (parc,sri,xerox_dover)24.96
    (58) (sri,xerox_dover)24.68
    (59) (parc,sri,sit)24.54
    (60) (parc,sri,silicon_valley)24.39
    (61) (parc,executive,physicist)23.97
    (62) (parc,sri,physicist)23.54
    (63) (laboratory,mid-career)23.40
    (64) (laboratory,parc,mid-career)22.97
    (65) (parc,executive,mid-career)22.68
    (66) (parc,industry,mid-career)22.40
    (67) (parc,sri,mid-career)22.11
    (68) (sri,parekh,mid-career)21.68
    (69) (laboratory,parc,engineer)20.83
    (70) (parc,executive,engineer)20.11
    (71) (computer,jobs)19.83
    (72) (parc,industry,engineer)19.54
    (73) (laboratory,parc,early-career)19.12
    (74) (computer,apple)18.69
    (75) (parc,executive,early-career)18.40
    (76) (parc,industry,early-career)17.83
    (77) (sri,parekh,early-career)17.40
    (78) (laboratory,parc,aerospace)17.26
    (79) (parc,industry,aerospace)16.55
    (80) (parc,invention)15.83
    (81) (parc,executive,parekh)15.55
    (82) (parc,executive,eric_schmidt)14.98
    (83) (sri,siri)14.41
    (84) (parc,executive,curtis_carlson)14.41
    (85) (sri,computer-based)13.27
    (86) (computer,sri,pentagon-funded)11.13
    (87) (computer,sri,menlo_park)10.98
    (88) (computer,sri,los_angeles)10.70
    (89) (computer,sri,charley_kline)10.56
    (90) (computer,sri,bill_duvall)10.27
    (91) (computer,software)9.13
    (92) (computer,pentagon-funded)8.99
    (93) (computer,microsoft)8.70
    (94) (sri,parekh,space)8.56
    (95) (sri,parekh,parc)8.42
    (96) (sri,parekh,intelligence)8.27
    (97) (sri,industry)8.13
    (98) (sri,parekh,industry)7.99
    (99) (sri,parekh,high-tech)7.85
    (100) (sri,parekh,explainable)7.70

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    Supporting narratives:

    Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • . Four decades later, PARC has become a footnote in the nation's technology heartland, even as Silicon Valley's influence has ballooned. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,technology,silicon_valley)
        • (parc,silicon_valley,heartland)
        • Inferred entity relationships (4)
        • (parc,silicon_valley,technology) [inferred]
        • (heartland,parc) [inferred]
        • (heartland,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (parc,silicon_valley,sri) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • A decaying building is covered in vines.. . PARC has become a footnote in the nation's technology heartland, even as Silicon Valley's influence has ballooned. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,technology,heartland)
        • (parc,technology,silicon_valley)
        • (parc,silicon_valley,heartland)
        • Inferred entity relationships (5)
        • (parc,silicon_valley,technology) [inferred]
        • (heartland,parc,silicon_valley) [inferred]
        • (heartland,parc) [inferred]
        • (heartland,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (parc,silicon_valley,sri) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Four decades later, PARC has become a footnote in the nation's technology heartland, even as Silicon Valley's influence has ballooned. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,influence)
        • (parc,silicon_valley,influence)
        • (laboratory,parc,silicon_valley)
        • (parc,technology,influence)
        • (laboratory,parc,influence)
        • (laboratory,parc,technology)
        • (laboratory,parc,heartland)
        • Inferred entity relationships (10)
        • (influence,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,silicon_valley) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (influence,parc) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (influence,laboratory) [inferred]
        • (influence,parc,silicon_valley) [inferred]
        • (parc,silicon_valley,technology) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,parekh) [inferred]
        • (parc,silicon_valley,sri) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • . PARC has become a footnote in the nation's technology heartland, even as Silicon Valley's influence has ballooned. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,technology,influence)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (influence,parc,silicon_valley) [inferred]
        • (influence,parc) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Jobs took away a handful of ideas that would transform the computing world when they became the heart of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh computers.. . . Four decades later, PARC has become a footnote in the nation's technology heartland, even as Silicon Valley's influence has ballooned. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,technology,heartland)
        • (parc,heartland)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (heartland,parc,silicon_valley) [inferred]
        • (heartland,parc) [inferred]
        • (heartland,parc,technology) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • PARC's inventiveness has always been a source of contention. Xerox was accused of "fumbling the future," by not effectively commercializing the technology it invented to become a major player in the computer industry. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,commercializing)
        • (parc,technology,commercializing)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (commercializing,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (commercializing,parc) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Jobs took away a handful of ideas that would transform the computing world when they became the heart of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh computers.. . . Four decades later, PARC has become a footnote in the nation's technology heartland, even as Silicon Valley's influence has ballooned ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,computers)
        • (parc,technology,computers)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (computers,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (computers,parc) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Parekh, who is a mechanical engineer whose background is in the aerospace industry and who became SRI's chief executive in 2021, said PARC would be able to attract both early-career researchers as well as mid-career and senior researchers ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (laboratory,parc,sri)
        • (parc,industry,aerospace)
        • (parc,industry,engineer)
        • (laboratory,executive)
        • (parc,executive,engineer)
        • (laboratory,parc,industry)
        • (laboratory,parc,engineer)
        • (sri,parekh,executive)
        • (parc,sri,executive)
        • (laboratory,parc,aerospace)
        • (parc,industry,executive)
        • (laboratory,parc,executive)
        • (parc,sri,industry)
        • (sri,executive)
        • (sri,parekh,parc)
        • Inferred entity relationships (13)
        • (laboratory,parc,silicon_valley) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,parekh) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (executive,laboratory,parc) [inferred]
        • (executive,laboratory) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,parekh) [inferred]
        • (industry,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,xerox_dover) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,world_wide_web) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (industry,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,physicist) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Huberman said.. . PARC and SRI share a complicated history. During Silicon Valley's formative years in the 1960s and '70s, SRI, which is in neighboring Menlo Park, and PARC invented defining concepts that even today continue to shape the computer industry, including advanced chip design, personal computing, laser printing, office networking and what is described as the Internet of Things ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,sri,silicon_valley)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (parc,silicon_valley,technology) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Parekh, who is a mechanical engineer whose background is in the aerospace industry and who became SRI's chief executive in 2021, said PARC would be able to attract both early-career researchers as well as mid-career and senior researchers. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,industry,mid-career)
        • (sri,parekh,mid-career)
        • (laboratory,parc,early-career)
        • (sri,parekh,early-career)
        • (laboratory,mid-career)
        • (parc,executive,early-career)
        • (laboratory,parc,mid-career)
        • (parc,sri,mid-career)
        • (parc,industry,early-career)
        • (parc,executive,mid-career)
        • Inferred entity relationships (14)
        • (laboratory,parc,silicon_valley) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,parekh) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,mid-career,parc) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,parekh) [inferred]
        • (industry,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,xerox_dover) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,world_wide_web) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (mid-career,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,mid-career) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,physicist) [inferred]
        • (industry,parc,sri) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • The challenge, said Curtis Carlson, a physicist who was SRI's chief executive from 1998 to 2014, will be to create a culture that is able to make the connection between invention and innovation, which he described as invention delivered into the marketplace with a viable business model.. . PARC's inventiveness has always been a source of contention. Xerox was accused of "fumbling the future," by not effectively commercializing the technology it invented to become a major player in the computer industry ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,model)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (model,parc,sri) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Xerox was accused of "fumbling the future," by not effectively commercializing the technology it invented to become a major player in the computer industry. Mr. Jobs took away the technology that still defines Apple's products, and Charles Simonyi, a young PARC software designer who left to work for Microsoft, took the ideas that would become the heart of both Office and Windows ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,apple)
        • (computer,technology)
        • (computer,commercializing)
        • (computer,jobs)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (commercializing,computer,parc) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Two young programmers, Bill Duvall at SRI in Menlo Park and Charley Kline at UCLA in Los Angeles, test remotely connecting to a computer via a Pentagon-funded experimental computer network known as ARPAnet. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,sri,pentagon-funded)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (computer,pentagon-funded) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Two young programmers, Bill Duvall at SRI in Menlo Park and Charley Kline at UCLA in Los Angeles, test remotely connecting to a computer via a Pentagon-funded experimental computer network known as ARPAnet ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,sri,charley_kline)
        • (computer,sri,los_angeles)
        • (computer,sri,menlo_park)
        • (computer,sri,bill_duvall)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (computer,sri,world_wide_web) [inferred]
        • (menlo_park,sri) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Two young programmers, Bill Duvall at SRI in Menlo Park and Charley Kline at UCLA in Los Angeles, test remotely connecting to a computer via a Pentagon-funded experimental computer network known as ARPAnet.. . A napkin with a careful drawing of an imagined computer network ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,pentagon-funded)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (computer,pentagon-funded,sri) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Mr. Parekh, who is a mechanical engineer whose background is in the aerospace industry and who became SRI's chief executive in 2021, said PARC would be able to attract both early-career researchers as well as mid-career and senior researchers ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,parekh,engineer)
        • (laboratory,sri)
        • (sri,industry)
        • (sri,parekh,industry)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Parekh said he believed that the new research center could make major contributions in research on more trustworthy and explainable artificial intelligence systems. SRI has been a pioneer in A.I. research since the 1960s, and Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,parekh,explainable)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • . . . Sri. . 1969. Two young programmers, Bill Duvall at SRI in Menlo Park and Charley Kline at UCLA in Los Angeles, test remotely connecting to a computer via a Pentagon-funded experimental computer network known as ARPAnet ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,menlo_park)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, he said, is now funding PARC's research on futuristic human-machine collaboration, intended to make it possible for people and machines to plan and work together on tasks in both digital and physical worlds.. . The challenge, said Curtis Carlson, a physicist who was SRI's chief executive from 1998 to 2014, will be to create a culture that is able to make the connection between invention and innovation, which he described as invention delivered into the marketplace with a viable business model ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,executive)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • The new, combined lab will have about 1,000 researchers.. . Mr. Parekh, who is a mechanical engineer whose background is in the aerospace industry and who became SRI's chief executive in 2021, said PARC would be able to attract both early-career researchers as well as mid-career and senior researchers ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (laboratory,parekh)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Four decades later, PARC has become a footnote in the nation's technology heartland, even as Silicon Valley's influence has ballooned. Last April, Xerox quietly donated the lab to SRI International, an independent research laboratory that is a nonprofit organization with an equally storied history that has also fallen from its peak of influence ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (laboratory,silicon_valley)
        • (laboratory,sri_international)
        • (laboratory,technology)
        • (laboratory,influence)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (influence,laboratory,parc) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Xerox executives had always responded that though they did not successfully compete in the computer market, they got a huge return on their investment by commercializing the laser printer technology PARC invented. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,commercializing)
        • (parc,computer,commercializing)
        • (parc,technology,market)
        • (parc,computer,technology)
        • (computer,technology)
        • (parc,computer,investment)
        • Inferred entity relationships (6)
        • (commercializing,computer) [inferred]
        • (computer,parc,world_wide_web) [inferred]
        • (computer,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (investment,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (commercializing,computer,parc) [inferred]
        • (computer,parc,sri) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Xerox was accused of "fumbling the future," by not effectively commercializing the technology it invented to become a major player in the computer industry. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,computer,technology)
        • (parc,technology,industry)
        • (parc,computer,commercializing)
        • (parc,industry,commercializing)
        • (parc,computer,industry)
        • Inferred entity relationships (6)
        • (commercializing,computer) [inferred]
        • (computer,parc,world_wide_web) [inferred]
        • (industry,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (industry,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (computer,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (computer,parc,sri) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Some of PARC's computing innovations have their roots in prior research work done in the SRI lab of Douglas Engelbart, the computer scientist who invented the computer mouse and hypertext, the forerunner to the World Wide Web. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,sri,forerunner)
        • (parc,computer,world_wide_web)
        • (computer,sri,world_wide_web)
        • (computer,world_wide_web)
        • (parc,sri,world_wide_web)
        • (computer,sri,hypertext)
        • (parc,computer,hypertext)
        • (computer,hypertext)
        • (parc,computer,forerunner)
        • (sri,world_wide_web)
        • Inferred entity relationships (9)
        • (computer,hypertext) [inferred]
        • (sri,world_wide_web) [inferred]
        • (computer,forerunner,parc) [inferred]
        • (computer,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (computer,forerunner,sri) [inferred]
        • (computer,hypertext,parc) [inferred]
        • (computer,hypertext,sri) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,xerox_dover) [inferred]
        • (computer,parc,sri) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Some of PARC's computing innovations have their roots in prior research work done in the SRI lab of Douglas Engelbart, the computer scientist who invented the computer mouse and hypertext, the forerunner to the World Wide Web ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,computer,sri)
        • (computer,sri,lab)
        • (computer,douglas_engelbart)
        • (parc,computer,lab)
        • (parc,computer,douglas_engelbart)
        • (computer,sri,douglas_engelbart)
        • Inferred entity relationships (9)
        • (computer,parc,world_wide_web) [inferred]
        • (computer,douglas_engelbart,sri) [inferred]
        • (computer,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (computer,lab,sri) [inferred]
        • (computer,douglas_engelbart,parc) [inferred]
        • (computer,lab,parc) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,xerox_dover) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,world_wide_web) [inferred]
        • (computer,douglas_engelbart) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Xerox executives had always responded that though they did not successfully compete in the computer market, they got a huge return on their investment by commercializing the laser printer technology PARC invented ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,computer,market)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (market,parc,technology) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Xerox executives had always responded that though they did not successfully compete in the computer market, they got a huge return on their investment by commercializing the laser printer technology PARC invented.. . But many researchers who were at PARC's halcyon early days said that its strength was that their research was unconstrained by the need to create a specific product - a notion that seems hard to imagine in today's product-oriented Silicon Valley ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,technology,strength)
        • (parc,technology,commercializing)
        • (parc,technology,investment)
        • (parc,technology,halcyon)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (commercializing,parc) [inferred]

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      • The challenge, said Curtis Carlson, a physicist who was SRI's chief executive from 1998 to 2014, will be to create a culture that is able to make the connection between invention and innovation, which he described as invention delivered into the marketplace with a viable business model. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,executive,model)
        • (parc,sri,model)
        • (parc,invention)
        • Inferred entity relationships (5)
        • (model,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (invention,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (model,parc) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,xerox_dover) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,world_wide_web) [inferred]

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      • Among the first innovations to come out of PARC is a complete system for laser printing, pictured here in a prototype printer model, the Xerox Dover. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,sri,xerox_dover)
        • (sri,xerox_dover)
        • (parc,sri,model)
        • (sri,model)
        • (parc,model)
        • Inferred entity relationships (5)
        • (model,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (sri,xerox_dover) [inferred]
        • (model,parc) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,xerox_dover) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,world_wide_web) [inferred]

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      • The challenge, said Curtis Carlson, a physicist who was SRI's chief executive from 1998 to 2014, will be to create a culture that is able to make the connection between invention and innovation, which he described as invention delivered into the marketplace with a viable business model ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,sri,executive)
        • (sri,invention)
        • (parc,executive,physicist)
        • (parc,executive,invention)
        • (parc,sri,invention)
        • (parc,executive,curtis_carlson)
        • (parc,sri,physicist)
        • Inferred entity relationships (8)
        • (parc,physicist,sri) [inferred]
        • (invention,parc) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,parekh) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (invention,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,physicist) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,xerox_dover) [inferred]
        • (parc,sri,world_wide_web) [inferred]

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      • People sit in a circle in a room full of large bean bag chairs.. . SRI, via Computer History Museum. . 1972 ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,sri,sit)

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      • A stream of text messages with "Siri" above them.. . . David Parekh, SRI's chief executive, said that although PARC could not compete directly for talent because of the high salaries now routinely offered by tech giants, it would still be possible to attract scientists and engineers interested in the research freedom that the laboratory would provide ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,executive,parekh)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (executive,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,physicist) [inferred]
        • (parc,parekh,sri) [inferred]

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      • "It's still magical," said Eric Schmidt, Google's former chief executive and executive chairman, who began his career at PARC as a computer scientist and a member of the research team ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,executive,eric_schmidt)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (executive,parc,parekh) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (executive,parc,physicist) [inferred]

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      • PARC is credited with the original graphical computing breakthrough known as the WIMP interface, an acronym for Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer, that describes a style of human-computer interaction that was popularized by Macintosh and Windows personal computers. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (parc,computers)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (computers,parc,technology) [inferred]

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      • The computer scientist Douglas Engelbart does a live demonstration of the "oN-Line system" his team at SRI has been developing, showcasing the computer mouse and hypertext - later to become the foundational concept underlying the World Wide Web. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,sri,world_wide_web)
        • (computer,world_wide_web)
        • (computer,sri,hypertext)
        • (computer,hypertext)
        • Inferred entity relationships (4)
        • (computer,hypertext) [inferred]
        • (sri,world_wide_web) [inferred]
        • (computer,hypertext,parc) [inferred]
        • (computer,hypertext,sri) [inferred]

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      • . . . Sri. . 1968. The computer scientist Douglas Engelbart does a live demonstration of the "oN-Line system" his team at SRI has been developing, showcasing the computer mouse and hypertext - later to become the foundational concept underlying the World Wide Web ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,douglas_engelbart)
        • (computer,sri,douglas_engelbart)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (computer,douglas_engelbart,parc) [inferred]
        • (computer,douglas_engelbart,sri) [inferred]
        • (computer,douglas_engelbart) [inferred]

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      • In 1979, a 24-year old Steve Jobs was permitted to visit Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to view a demonstration of an experimental personal computer called the Alto. Mr. Jobs took away a handful of ideas that would transform the computing world when they became the heart of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh computers ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,jobs)

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      • Jobs took away a handful of ideas that would transform the computing world when they became the heart of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh computers. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,apple)

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      • Jobs took away the technology that still defines Apple's products, and Charles Simonyi, a young PARC software designer who left to work for Microsoft, took the ideas that would become the heart of both Office and Windows ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,software)

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      • Jobs took away the technology that still defines Apple's products, and Charles Simonyi, a young PARC software designer who left to work for Microsoft, took the ideas that would become the heart of both Office and Windows. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (computer,microsoft)

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      • Parekh is now planning to build a modern research campus and residential community with new SRI buildings and space to attract other high-tech companies. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,parekh,space)
        • (sri,parekh,high-tech)

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      • Parekh said he believed that the new research center could make major contributions in research on more trustworthy and explainable artificial intelligence systems. SRI has been a pioneer in A.I. research since the 1960s, and Mr. Parekh said that combining today's neural net technologies with the traditional symbolic A.I ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,parekh,intelligence)

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      • Mr. Parekh is now planning to build a modern research campus and residential community with new SRI buildings and space to attract other high-tech companies. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,parekh,buildings)

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      • Across its 78-year history, SRI's inventions have evolved from early computer-based check processing systems to the initial version of Siri. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,siri)

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      • That was foreshadowed in basic research done at SRI in the 2000s that led to the commercial spinoff of SIRI, a speech assistant that Mr. Jobs placed at the heart of the iPhone just before his death in 2011 ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,siri)

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      • . Across its 78-year history, SRI's inventions have evolved from early computer-based check processing systems to the initial version of Siri. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,computer-based)

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      • . 1950. Bank of America contracts with SRI to design a computer-based system to automate the processing of checks. By 1966, the Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting can process 750 million checks a year ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (sri,computer-based)

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      • David Parekh, SRI's chief executive, said that although PARC could not compete directly for talent because of the high salaries now routinely offered by tech giants, it would still be possible to attract scientists and engineers interested in the research freedom that the laboratory would provide ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (laboratory,parc,parekh)
        • (laboratory,talent)
        • (laboratory,parc,executive)
        • (laboratory,executive)
        • (laboratory,parekh)
        • Inferred entity relationships (7)
        • (laboratory,parc,silicon_valley) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,sri) [inferred]
        • (parc,parekh,sri) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,technology) [inferred]
        • (executive,laboratory,parc) [inferred]
        • (executive,laboratory) [inferred]
        • (laboratory,parc,parekh) [inferred]

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      • Xerox opens the Palo Alto Research Center as an R&D division on the edge of Stanford's campus. The mandate of the laboratory is to create "the office of the future.". . People sit in a circle in a room full of large bean bag chairs. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (laboratory,sit)

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      • Xerox opens the Palo Alto Research Center as an R&D division on the edge of Stanford's campus. The mandate of the laboratory is to create "the office of the future." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (laboratory,palo_alto_research_center)