Another One Gone
Dec. 27th, 2011 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerPhysicist Jack Goldman has died. Goldman was the chief scientist for Xerox Corp. In 1970, he was put in charge of California's Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC for short, purposely located 3,000 miles from Xerox headquarters. Goldman staffed PARC with top scientists to create new technologies, and they quickly churned out results. They invented the the first modern personal computer (complete with a new idea called a graphical user interface, through which the user would manipulate the computer with something developed with the Stanford Research Institute called a "mouse"). They invented the laser printer, and they networked their new "personal" computers with something else they invented: Ethernet. That's still not all: they developed InterPress, the precursor to PostScript, and object-oriented programming. They then showed their work off. Including most famously to a visitor named Steve Jobs.
