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Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as the Haloid Photographic Company. [11] It manufactured photographic paper and equipment. In 1938, Chester Carlson, a physicist working independently, invented a process for printing images using an electrically charged photoconductor-coated metal plate [12] and dry powder "toner".
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) was founded by Darwin Deason and Charles M. Young, both former MTech Communications executives, in 1988. [6] Deason had served as CEO at MTech and decided to launch another data processing firm after a management buyout bid of him and other executives had lost to another bid in 1988.
Joseph Chamberlain Wilson (December 13, 1909 [1] – November 22, 1971) was the founder of the Xerox Corporation, a graduate of the University of Rochester and Harvard Business School [2] and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Beta Phi chapter). He helped to develop xerography pioneered by Chester Carlson.
After selling MTech to EDS, Deason founded Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) in 1988. [3] ACS became one of the first companies to outsource office work to places outside of the United States. [2] The company went public in 1994. [2] Deason retired as CEO of the company in 1999, but remained Executive Chairman until its sale to Xerox in 2010. [2]
PARC entrance. SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. [2] [3] [4] It was founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, as a division of Xerox, tasked with creating computer technology-related products and hardware systems.
The Fortune 500 list is the ultimate measure of success for U.S. companies and Fortune’s flagship ranking.. In a letter proposing the business magazine to advertisers in 1929, Time founder Henry ...
Jack Goldman (at PARC 1970–), [29] Xerox chief scientist 1968–1982, founded PARC in 1970 Bill Gosper (at PARC 1977–1981), [ 30 ] founded the hacker community, pioneered symbolic computation Rich Gossweiler (at PARC 1997–2000), [ 31 ] software engineer, expert in interaction design
The Xerox Sigma 9 was a major re-design with instruction lookahead and other advanced features, while the Sigma 8 and Sigma 9 mod 3 were low-end machines offered as a migration path for the Sigma 5. The French company CII , as a licensee of SDS, sold about 60 Sigma 7 machines in Europe, and developed an upgrade with virtual memory and dual ...