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Dealers Of Lightning

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Author : Michael A. Hiltzik
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-05-13

Dealers Of Lightning written by Michael A. Hiltzik and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-13 with Business & Economics categories.

In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer, the laser printer, and the graphical interface (one of the main precursors of the Internet), only to see these breakthroughs rejected by the corporation. Yet, instead of giving up, these determined inventors turned their ideas into empires that radically altered contemporary life and changed the world. Based on extensive interviews with the scientists, engineers, administrators, and executives who lived the story, this riveting chronicle details PARC's humble beginnings through its triumph as a hothouse for ideas, and shows why Xerox was never able to grasp, and ultimately exploit, the cutting-edge innovations PARC delivered. Dealers of Lightning offers an unprecedented look at the ideas, the inventions, and the individuals that propelled Xerox PARC to the frontier of technohistoiy--and the corporate machinations that almost prevented it from achieving greatness.

Dealers Of Lightning

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Author : Michael A. Hiltzik
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-05-19

Fumbling The Future

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Author : Douglas K. Smith
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 1999-06-01

Fumbling The Future written by Douglas K. Smith and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-01 with Business & Economics categories.

Ask consumers and users what names they associate with the multibillion dollar personal computer market, and they will answer IBM, Apple, Tandy, or Lotus. The more knowledgable of them will add the likes of Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, Compaq, and Borland. But no one will say Xerox. Fifteen years after it invented personal computing, Xerox still means "copy." Fumbling the Future tells how one of America's leading corporations invented the technology for one of the fastest-growing products of recent times, then miscalculated and mishandled the opportunity to fully exploit it. It is a classic story of how innovation can fare within large corporate structures, the real-life odyssey of what can happen to an idea as it travels from inspiration to implementation. More than anything, Fumbling the Future is a tale of human beings whose talents, hopes, fears, habits, and prejudices determine the fate of our largest organizations and of our best ideas. In an era in which technological creativity and economic change are so critical to the competitiveness of the American economy, Fumbling the Future is a parable for our times.

Dealers Of Lightning

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Author : Michael Hiltzik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-04-01

Dealers Of Lightning written by Michael Hiltzik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-01 with Computers categories.

The story of the legendary Xerox PARC -- where eccentric young inventors were brought together by Xerox Corp. at a facility in Palo Alto, CA, during the Ô70s and Ô80s. This extraordinary group brought about a technological revolution that would change the world. Takes the reader on a journey from PARC's beginnings at the edge of Stanford Univ. to its triumph as a hothouse of ideas that spawned not only the first personal computer, but the windows-style graphical user interface, the laser printer, the indispensable technology of the Internet, and more. Details the frustration of the original PARC scientists, many of whom would go on to build their fortunes upon the very ideas Xerox discarded.

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Author : Hiltzik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-01-01

Dealers Of Lightning written by Hiltzik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with categories.

The New Deal

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Author : Michael Hiltzik
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-09-13

The New Deal written by Michael Hiltzik and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-13 with Business & Economics categories.

From first to last the New Deal was a work in progress, a patchwork of often contradictory ideas.

Three Degrees Above Zero

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Author : Jeremy Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1987-05-14

Three Degrees Above Zero written by Jeremy Bernstein and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-05-14 with Business & Economics categories.

Bell Laboratories is one of the world's leading research centres. Bell scientists have won seven Nobel prizes in, physics, more than any other single institution in the world. In this engrossing book - a blend of popular science, and history -Jeremy Bernstein guides us on a fascinating tour of the labs, introducing us to the men and women who have been responsible for some of the greatest scientific advances of this century, in computers and computation, solid state physics (including the invention and development of the transistor); communications, and in astrophysics.

Infinite Loop

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Author : Michael Shawn Malone
language : en
Publisher: Broadway Business
Release Date : 1999

Infinite Loop written by Michael Shawn Malone and has been published by Broadway Business this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.

The inside story of how one of America's most beloved companies--Apple Computer--took off like a high-tech rocket--only to come crashing to Earth twenty years later. No company in modern times has been as successful at capturing the public's imagination as Apple Computer. From its humble beginnings in a suburban garage, Apple sparked the personal computer revolution, and its products and founders--Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak--quickly became part of the American myth. But something happened to Apple as it stumbled toward a premature middle age. For ten years, it lived off its past glory and its extraordinary products. Then, almost overnight, it collapsed in a two-year free fall. How did Apple lose its way? Why did the world still care so deeply about a company that had lost its leadership position? Michael S. Malone, from the unique vantage point of having grown up with the company's founders, and having covered Apple and Silicon Valley for years, sets out to tell the gripping behind-the-scenes story--a story that is even zanier than the business world thought. In essence, Malone claims, with only a couple of incredible inventions (the Apple II and Macintosh), and backed by an arrogance matched only by its corporate ineptitude, Apple managed to create a multibillion-dollar house of cards. And, like a faulty program repeating itself in an infinite loop, Apple could never learn from its mistakes. The miracle was not that Apple went into free fall, but that it held up for so long. Within the pages of Infinite Loop, we discover a bruising portrait of the megalomaniacal Steve Jobs and an incompetent John Sculley, as well as the kind of political backstabbings, stupidmistakes, and overweening egos more typical of a soap opera than a corporate history. Infinite Loop is almost as wild and unpredictable, as exhilarating and gut-wrenching, as the story of Apple itself.

Wild Thing

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Author : Josh Bazell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-02-08

Wild Thing written by Josh Bazell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-08 with Fiction categories.

It's hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So hard that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers -- not to mention the occasional lake monster -- are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem. Facing new and old monsters alike, Dr. Brnwa's story continues in this darkly funny and lightning-paced follow up to Josh Bazell's bestselling debut.

Copies In Seconds

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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2005-05-09

Copies In Seconds written by David Owen and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-09 with Business & Economics categories.

A lone inventor and the story of how one of the most revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century almost didn't happen. Introduced in 1960, the first plain-paper office copier is unusual among major high-technology inventions in that its central process was conceived by a single person. Chester Carlson grew up in unspeakable poverty, worked his way through junior college and the California Institute of Technology, and made his discovery in solitude in the depths of the Great Depression. He offered his big idea to two dozen major corporations -- among them IBM, RCA, and General Electric -- all of which turned him down. So persistent was this failure of capitalistic vision that by the time the Xerox 914 was manufactured, by an obscure photographic-supply company in Rochester, New York, Carlson's original patent had expired. Xerography was so unusual and nonintuitive that it conceivably could have been overlooked entirely. Scientists who visited the drafty warehouses where the first machines were built sometimes doubted that Carlson's invention was even theoretically feasible. Building the first plain-paper office copier -- with parts scrounged from junkyards, cleaning brushes made of hand-sewn rabbit fur, and a built-in fire extinguisher -- required the persistence, courage, and imagination of an extraordinary group of physicists, engineers, and corporate executives whose story has never before been fully told. Copies in Seconds is a tale of corporate innovation and risk-taking at its very best.

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