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2012 Golden Acorn Awards Recognize PARC Innovations

15 January 2013 | Editor

In 2012 PARC celebrated 10 years of practicing open innovation, a major milestone since being incorporated as an independent subsidiary of Xerox in 2002. That same year PARC also instituted the Golden Acorn Awards, an annual award program to recognize excellence in patenting. The awards reflect the significance of intellectual property to PARC’s business model and the importance of individual leadership in its creation.

PARC is a place where the “entrepreneurial scientist” thrives — people with that rare combination of a passion for deep research, a pioneering spirit, and the business savvy of an entrepreneur. Nominated by a peer-based group and then selected by PARC’s senior team, the recipients of the 2012 Golden Acorn Awards truly embody our culture with their groundbreaking and industry-leading work.

The following PARC inventors have made considerable contributions to PARC’s intellectual assets and demonstrated excellent patent practice and are recipients of the 2012 Golden Acorn ...

PARC Innovations Update (2012 #5) – Innovations and Inventions With Impact

21 December 2012 | Editor

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INVENTIONS WITH IMPACT:  PARC, IPS, and Motorola Solutions

PARC and Intelligent Product Solutions (IPS) recently announced the launch of the IPS Entervise™ solution for the Motorola Solutions HC1 headset computer. Entervise, a voice-driven, hands-free remote field service solution, is fully integrated with Motorola’s HC1 headset computer.

PARC provides the core augmented reality technology embedded in the back-end server software, which runs the communications, compression, security, and algorithms needed to send, receive, and annotate audio, video, text, and voice in real time.

read the article “Heads Up, Hands On” by Nicole Daphne Tricoukes, Senior Maverick in charge of the Motorola HC1 Headset Computer program
read news release

DEVELOPMENT:  PARC Awarded California Energy Commission Grant to Treat Wastewater 

PARC was chosen by the California Energy Commission to receive a $1 million grant to demonstrate a new ...

PARC Innovations Update (2012 #4)

12 October 2012 | Editor

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INNOVATION: The Future of Manufacturing

Digital technologies are making a dramatic impact on manufacturing, enabling a greater variety of products at lower volumes and lower costs. Not only will these technologies usher in a new wave of mass customization and personalization, but we will also see significant shifts in how products are developed, made, and delivered to retailers and consumers.

PARC is leading the innovation of digital design and manufacturing across hardware, software, and process technologies, and building public-private partnerships in open innovation to execute that vision.

• DARPA and the Applied Research Lab at Penn State recently chose PARC to advance virtual product development and digital manufacturing for the iFab program, shortening the time it takes to design and manufacture complex military ground vehicles.
  read news release
• Read PARC CEO Stephen Hoover’s Techonomy article: “How
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PARC Innovations Update (2012 #3)

31 July 2012 | Editor

[e-newsletter archive ~June-July 2012] definitions, debates, disruptive opportunities, and donations

PARC Innovations Update (2012 #2)

31 May 2012 | Editor

[e-newsletter archive ~March-May 2012] innovation experts, Internet Hall of Fame, tech news, more 

PARC’s Power of 10

10 May 2012 | Editor

When we set out to celebrate our 10th “birthday” since being incorporated in 2002 as an independent company, we wondered, what was the best way to share some of our insights and experiences in the journey from “Xerox PARC” to “Palo Alto Research Center” to “PARC, a Xerox company”? Given this new milestone, we felt the focus should be on the business models, the theoretical expertise, and commercialization stories – the process behind the outcomes. So our Power of 10 half-day conference and celebration on April 26 featured experts sharing their theoretical and research insights on open innovation and disruptive innovation, followed by practical experiences from some of our clients... Today the innovation landscape moves faster than ever, and there are many more players, each with an important role.

What we’re reading

15 March 2012 | Editor

[Winter 2011/ Spring 2012] Here's the latest "flash-sampling" of what books some of our folks happened to be reading... and why

PARC Innovations Update (2012 #1)

29 February 2012 | Editor

[e-newsletter archive ~January-February 2012] The Power of 10; industry award; "channel blending" phenomenon 

Videos you can watch anywhere: Experts on a variety of topics

21 December 2011 | Editor

PARC Forum is our invited expert speaker series -- and public platform -- for exchanging insights and building relationships with leading experts in a variety of areas. An amazing variety of speakers including Nobel Prize laureates, CEOs, industry-leading thought leaders and other personalities have spoken in the series since 1977. You can watch recent videos on our website at www.parc.com/forum and on our Slideshare channel (in HTML5 and mobile viewable on iPads, iPhones, Android devices).

To tweak or not to tweak… that is (not!) the question

15 November 2011 | Editor

Forbes has some interesting commentary on Steve Jobs and whether Malcolm Gladwell (yes, him again) is wrong in calling Steve a "tweaker" and therefore less of a visionary or "true" inventor. Obviously, we believe there's more to all of this. Given our experiences, here are some of our thoughts...