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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".
Innovation Square, formerly Xerox Tower, is a skyscraper in downtown Rochester, New York, standing at 443 feet (135 m) tall. [4] The tower is the centerpiece of a roughly 2.7 acres (1.1 ha) complex named Xerox Square . [ 5 ]
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.
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.
Booking Holdings, Datto, FactSet, Pepperidge Farm, Priceline.com, Terex, Ventus, and Xerox have headquarters in Norwalk. [36] [37] The Financial Accounting Foundation and the Financial Accounting Standards Board are also based in Norwalk.
As president of Xerox, he made an effort to integrate Xerox during the late 1960s. After the race riots that began in Detroit had reached Xerox headquarters in Rochester, New York, Wilson wrote in a letter to all Xerox managers that "he wanted a very aggressive program to recruit and hire blacks in this company."
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In February 2012, Jacobson joined Xerox as president of Global Graphic Communications Operations, [11] working out of Xerox's headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 2014 he became the president [8] and chief operating officer of Xerox Technology. [11] On June 23, 2016, he was announced as the future CEO of Xerox, succeeding Ursula Burns. [1]