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"PARC: Seeding Innovation"
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PARC works closely with varied enterprises and new ventures to discover breakthrough business and technology concepts that solve real needs, and transform how enterprises deliver value to customers. PARC takes an agile, multidisciplinary approach to open innovation – by bringing together physical, computer, biological, and social scientists who have the vision, expertise, and instinct to convert groundbreaking scientific findings into industrial-strength prototypes.

Incorporated in 2002 as an independent research business, PARC is celebrated for such innovations as laser printing, distributed computing and Ethernet, the graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming, and ubiquitous computing. PARC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation.

To inquire about working with PARC, please contact info@parc.com. [client services]

SPOTLIGHT

Powerset to be acquired
by Microsoft
 

Natural Language Applications

Sharing a vision of semantic search for the Web, PARC has worked closely with Powerset to develop their consumer search platform – which builds upon three decades of our groundbreaking natural language research. More about PARC's highly scalable, high-performing natural language capabilities...

 

 

Water Filtration Innovation

PARC has developed a high-volume, membrane-free, spiral fluidic filtration approach that reduces requirements for physical space, chemicals, and energy in conventional water treatment. For a typical 20 MGD installation, our technology could cut land use in half, and reduce capital, operations, and maintenance costs by over a third...

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

August 21, 2008
PARC Forum: Passage to Peace: Exploring Tea Culture Today

August 28, 2008
PARC Forum: No PARC Forum This Week

September 4, 2008
PARC Forum: Navigating the network of knowledge: Mining quotations from massive-scale digital libraries of books

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RECENT NEWS

What is worse than reusing passwords? -- ITWorld
PARC Principal Scientist Markus Jakobsson discusses the problems with password reset in this guest post. More about PARC's security & privacy work...

Tracking technologies out to thwart fraud -- EE Times
PARC is developing blast dosimeters, wearable, electronic "tape" sensors that record data associated with battlefield explosions. The $2 million, 18-month Pentagon research program aims to leverage PARC's jet-printing expertise to develop low-cost technologies and processes for fabricating sensors, memory and control electronics.

Get Design Help from Internet Dwellers -- Kiplinger
User reaction is crucial to designing and tweaking new products and services, but getting solid feedback can be expensive. Will "crowdsourcing" help? Includes accompanying article by PARC's Augmented Social Cognition scientists.

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