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Friday, 23 December 2011 06:00

System Builder Marathon, Dec. 2011: System Value Compared

System Builder Marathon, December 2011: The Articles

Here are links to each of the four articles in this month’s System Builder Marathon (we’ll update them as each story is published). And remember, these systems are all being given away at the end of the marathon.

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Jack Goldman, Founder of Xerox PARC, Dies

Jack Goldman wanted to call Xerox PARC the Xerox Advanced Scientific & Systems Laboratory. We're glad he didn't. (Photo: Xerox)

Jacob “Jack” Goldman — the man who founded the lab that pretty much invented the personal computer as we know it — has died at age 90.

Goldman was the Xerox Chief Scientist who in 1969 proposed that the company create a pure research laboratory that would put Xerox in the same league as IBM and AT&T, whose Yorktown Heights and Bell Labs facilities are now legendary.

The result was Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) — the birthplace of the graphical user i...

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