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Ethnography and Creating Better Healthcare: Interview with Dr. Ellen Isaacs 24 Aug 2013 | 02:59 am
Each day PARC’s Innovation Services group of leading social scientists, ethnographers, and user experience experts help organizations around the world tackle the challenge of discovering the unmet nee...
Timebanking: An Old Idea Poised for Renewed Life 9 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
Timebanking, or the idea of communities of people sharing their skills in reciprocal relationships based on the time they take, is not a new idea. The idea can be traced back to 1827 when a man named ...
CCNxCon2013: PARC Hosting Next Community Meeting for Future Networking Technology 6 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
PARC is heavily involved in defining a disruptive, new networking architecture called Content-Centric Networking (CCN). This technology has the potential to change the basic method by which content is...
PARC in Tokyo: Interview with Makio Sasa 31 Jul 2013 | 03:34 am
This spring we officially opened our new Tokyo office with Makio Sasa as Japan’s regional leader for PARC’s Innovation Services business. He will grow and support both existing and new relationships w...
The Future for Palo Alto – A Morning of Design Thinking and Sustainable Transportation 27 Jun 2013 | 02:19 am
With little knowledge of what I was about to embark on for the morning, I walked into CityCamp Palo Alto where I was instructed to sit at tables of four, with design worksheets and a pen waiting for m...
The Next Manufacturing Revolution Is Not 3D. It’s Software 15 Jun 2013 | 06:55 am
A major challenge to creating and filling manufacturing jobs in the U.S. is the ever-increasing skills gap. There is a widespread misconception that these jobs are low-skill. To the contrary, a large ...
PARC Innovations Update (2013 #1) — CI, Networks, and Toothpaste-inspired CoEx Technology for Batteries 6 Jun 2013 | 10:49 pm
REDEFINING THE DRIVING EXPERIENCE Contextual Intelligence (CI) Software Platform for the Automotive Industry From infotainment services and content personalization to sensor-based user intelligence,...
What’s in a Name? A Lot. PARC, a Xerox company 16 Apr 2013 | 10:19 pm
By many measures, last week was an amazing week of visibility here at PARC – Tuesday’s New York Times Science cover article on our amazing chiplet technology by John Markoff, Wednesday’s expert interv...
Society’s Next Big Challenge: Infinite Data 15 Apr 2013 | 03:06 am
Over the past 10 years or so, many organizations have recognized the conceptual value of data and have started recording and retaining more and more of it. But after doing this for a while, they’re as...
Recharging Japan’s Dominance in Lithium-ion Batteries 20 Mar 2013 | 08:10 am
Japan has an incredibly strong history of innovation. Yet the country too often starts out with dominant market share only to lose leadership as the pace of innovation quickens. For example, its worl...
