List of people associated with PARC

Many notable computer scientists and others have been associated with PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, formerly Xerox PARC). They include:

• Nina Amenta (at PARC 1996–1997),^[1] researcher in computational geometry and computer graphics
• Anne Balsamo (at PARC 1999–2002),^[2] media studies scholar of connections between art, culture, gender, and technology
• Daniel G. Bobrow (at PARC 1972– ),^[3] artificial intelligence researcher
• David Boggs (at PARC 1972–1982),^[4] computer network pioneer, coinventor of Ethernet
• Anita Borg (at PARC 1997–2003),^[5] computer systems researcher, advocate for women in computing
• John Seely Brown (at PARC 1978–2000),^[6] researcher in organizational studies, chief scientist of Xerox
• Bill Buxton (at PARC 1989–1994),^[7] pioneer in human–computer interaction
• Stuart Card (at PARC 1974-2010),^[8] applied human factors in human–computer interaction
• Robert Carr (at PARC in late 1970s),^[9] CAD and office software designer
• Ed Chi (at PARC 1997–2011),^[10] researcher in information visualization and the usability of web sites
• Elizabeth F. Churchill (at PARC 2004–2006),^[11] specialist in human-computer interaction and social computing
• Lynn Conway (at PARC 1973–1982),^[12] VLSI design pioneer and transgender activist
• Franklin C. Crow (at PARC circa 1982–1990), computer graphics expert who did early research in antialiasing
• Pavel Curtis (at PARC 1983–1996),^[13] pioneer in text-based online virtual reality systems
• Valeria de Paiva (at PARC 2000–2008),^[14] uses logic and category theory to model natural language
• Steve Deering (at PARC circa 1990–1996), internet engineer, lead designer of IPv6
• L Peter Deutsch (at PARC 1971–1986),^[15] implementor of LISP 1.5, Smalltalk, and Ghostscript
• Paul Dourish (at PARC mid-1990s),^[16] researcher at the intersection of computer science and social science
• Clarence Ellis (at PARC 1976–1984),^[17] first African-American CS PhD, pioneer of computer-supported cooperative work
• David Em (at PARC 1975),^[18] computer artist, first fine artist to create a computer model of a 3d character
• Bill English (at PARC 1971–1989),^[19] co-inventor of the computer mouse
• David Eppstein (at PARC 1989–1990),^[20] researcher in computational geometry and graph algorithms
• Matthew K. Franklin (at PARC 1998–2000),^[21] developed pairing-based elliptic-curve cryptography
• Sean R. Garner (at PARC circa 2009– ), researcher in photovoltaics and sustainable engineering
• Charles Geschke (at PARC 1972–1980),^[22] invented page description languages, co-founded Adobe
• Adele Goldberg (at PARC 1973–1986),^[23] designer of Smalltalk and president of ACM
• Jack Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox 1968–1982 and (in 1970) founder of PARC^[24]
• Bill Gosper (at PARC 1977–1981),^[25] founder of the hacker community, pioneer of symbolic computation
• Rich Gossweiler (at PARC 1997–2000),^[26] software engineer, expert in interaction design
• Rebecca Grinter (at PARC 2000–2004),^[27] researcher in human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work
• Neil Gunther (at PARC 1982–1990),^[28] developer of open-source performance modeling software
• Marti Hearst (at PARC 1994–1997),^[29] expert in computational linguistics and search engine user interfaces
• Bruce Horn (at PARC 1973–1981),^[30] member of the original Apple Macintosh design team
• Bernardo Huberman (at PARC circa 1982–2000), applied chaos theory to web dynamics
• Dan Ingalls (at PARC circa 1972–1984), implemented Smalltalk virtual machine, invented bit blit
• Van Jacobson (at PARC 2006– ),^[31] developed internet congestion control protocols and diagnostics
• Natalie Jeremijenko (at PARC 1995),^[32] installation artist
• Ronald Kaplan (at PARC 1974–2007),^[33][34] expert in natural language processing, helped develop Interlisp
• Lauri Karttunen (at PARC 1987–2011),^[35] developed finite state morphology in computational linguistics
• Alan Kay (at PARC 1971–1981),^[36] pioneer of object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces
• Martin Kay (at PARC 1974– ),^[33] expert on machine translation and computational linguistics
• Gregor Kiczales (at PARC 1984–2002),^[37] invented aspect-oriented programming
• Ralph Kimball (at PARC 1972–1982),^[38] designed first commercial workstation with mice, icons, and windows
• Butler Lampson (at PARC 1971–1983),^[39] won Turing Award for his development of networked personal computers
• David M. Levy (at PARC 1984–1999),^[40] researcher on information overload
• Cristina Lopes (at PARC 1995–2002),^[41] researcher in aspect-oriented programming and ubiquitous computing
• Jock D. Mackinlay (at PARC 1986–2004)^[42] researcher in information visualization
• Cathy Marshall (at PARC circa 1989–2000), researcher on hypertext and personal archiving
• Edward M. McCreight (at PARC 1971–1989)^[43] co-invented B-trees
• Ralph Merkle (at PARC 1988–1999),^[44] invented public key cryptography and cryptographic hashing
• Diana Merry (at PARC circa 1971–1986), helped develop Smalltalk, co-invented bit blit
• Robert Metcalfe (at PARC 1972–1979),^[45] co-invented Ethernet, formulated Metcalfe's Law
• Jim Mitchell (at PARC 1971–1984),^[46] developed WATFOR and ARM RISC chip
• Louis Monier (at PARC 1983–1989),^[47] founder of AltaVista search engine
• Thomas P. Moran (at PARC 1974–2001),^[48] founded journal Human-Computer Interaction
• James H. Morris (at PARC 1974–1982),^[49] co-invented KMP string matching algorithm and lazy evaluation
• Elizabeth Mynatt (at PARC 1995–1998),^[50] studied digital family portraits and ubiquitous computing
• Martin Newell (at PARC 1979–1981),^[51] graphics expert who created the Utah teapot
• Geoffrey Nunberg (at PARC 1987–2001),^[52] linguist known for his work on lexical semantics
• Severo Ornstein (at PARC 1976–1983),^[53] founding head of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• George Pake (at PARC 1970–1986),^[54] pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance, founding director of PARC
• Peter Pirolli (at PARC 1991– ),^[55] developed information foraging theory
• Ashwin Ram (at PARC circa 2011– ), researcher on artificial intelligence for health applications
• Prasad Ram (at PARC circa 1998–2000), expert on digital rights management and web search
• Trygve Reenskaug (at PARC 1978–1979),^[56] formulated model-view-controller user interface design
• George G. Robertson (at PARC circa 1988–1995), information visualization expert
• Eric Schmidt (at PARC 1982–1983),^[57] CEO of Google and chairman of Alphabet
• Ronald V. Schmidt (at PARC 1980–1985),^[58] computer network engineer who founded SynOptics
• Michael Schroeder (at PARC circa 1977–1985), co-invented the Needham–Schroeder protocol for encrypted networking
• Bertrand Serlet (at PARC 1985–1989),^[59] led the Mac OS X team
• Scott Shenker (at PARC 1984–1998),^[60] leader in software-defined networking
• John Shoch (at PARC 1971–1980),^[61] developed an important predecessor of TCP/IP networking
• Charles Simonyi (at PARC 1972-1981),^[62] led the creation of Microsoft Office
• Alvy Ray Smith (at PARC 1974),^[63] cofounded Pixar
• Brian Cantwell Smith (at PARC 1982–1996),^[64] invented introspective programming and researches computational metaphors
• David Canfield Smith (at PARC 1975),^[65] invented computer icons
• Robert Spinrad (at PARC 1978–1982),^[66] designed vacuum tube computers, directed PARC
• Bob Sproull (at PARC 1973–1977),^[67] designed early head-mounted display, wrote widely used computer graphics textbook
• Gary Starkweather (at PARC 1970–1988),^[68] invented laser printers and color management
• Maureen C. Stone (at PARC circa 1980–1998), expert in color modeling
• Lucy Suchman (at PARC 1980–2000),^[69] researcher on human factors, cybercultural anthropology, and feminist theory
• Bert Sutherland (at PARC 1975–1981),^[70] brought social scientists to PARC
• Robert Taylor (at PARC 1970–1983),^[71] managed early ARPAnet development, founded DEC Systems Research Center
• Warren Teitelman (at PARC 1972–1984),^[72] designed Interlisp
• Shang-Hua Teng (at PARC 1991–1992),^[73] invented smoothed analysis of algorithms and near-linear-time Laplacian solvers
• Larry Tesler (at PARC 1973–1980),^[74] developed Object Pascal and Apple Newton
• Chuck Thacker (at PARC 1971–1983),^[75] chief designer of Alto, co-invented Ethernet
• John Warnock (at PARC 1978–1982),^[76] co-founded Adobe
• Mark Weiser (at PARC 1987–1999),^[77] invented ubiquitous computing
• Niklaus Wirth (at PARC 1976–1977 and 1984–1985),^[78] designed Pascal and other programming languages
• Frances Yao (at PARC 1979–1999),^[79] researcher in computational geometry and combinatorial algorithms
• Annie Zaenen (at PARC 2001–2011),^[80] researcher on linguistic encoding of temporal and spatial information
• Lixia Zhang (at PARC 1989–1996),^[81] computer networking pioneer

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