List of people associated with PARC

Many notable computer scientists and others have been associated with the Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (PARC), 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
• Patrick Baudisch (at PARC 2000–2001),^[3] in human–computer interaction
• Daniel G. Bobrow (at PARC 1972–2017),^[4] artificial intelligence researcher
• Susanne Bødker (at PARC 1982–1983),^[5] researcher in human–computer interaction
• David Boggs (at PARC 1972–1982),^[6] computer network pioneer, coinventor of Ethernet
• Anita Borg (at PARC 1997–2003),^[7] computer systems researcher, advocate for women in computing
• Alan H. Borning (at EuroPARC 1989–1990),^[8] human–computer interaction, object-oriented programming, constraint programming, programming languages
• John Seely Brown (at PARC 1978–2000),^[9] researcher in organizational studies, chief scientist of Xerox
• Bill Buxton (at PARC 1989–1994),^[10] pioneer in human–computer interaction
• Stuart Card (at PARC 1974-2010),^[11] applied human factors in human–computer interaction
• Robert Carr (at PARC in late 1970s),^[12] CAD and office software designer
• Ed Chi (at PARC 1997–2011),^[13] researcher in information visualization and the usability of web sites
• Elizabeth F. Churchill (at PARC 2004–2006),^[14] specialist in human-computer interaction and social computing
• Lynn Conway (at PARC 1973–1982),^[15] 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),^[16] pioneer in text-based online virtual reality systems
• Doug Cutting (at PARC 1990-1994),^{[citation needed]} creator of Nutch, Lucene, and Hadoop
• Steve Deering (at PARC circa 1990–1996),^{[citation needed]} internet engineer, lead designer of IPv6
• L Peter Deutsch (at PARC 1971–1986),^[17] implementor of LISP 1.5, Smalltalk, and Ghostscript
• David DiFrancesco (at PARC 1972–1974),^{[citation needed]} worked with Richard Shoup on PAINT, cofounded Pixar
• Paul Dourish (at PARC mid-1990s),^[18] researcher at the intersection of computer science and social science
• W. Keith Edwards (at PARC 1996–2004),^[19] researcher in human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
• Jerome I. Elkind (at PARC 1971–1978),^[20] head of the Computer Science Laboratory at PARC
• Clarence Ellis (at PARC 1976–1984),^[21] first African American CS PhD, pioneered computer-supported cooperative work
• David Em (at PARC 1975),^[22] computer artist, first fine artist to create a computer model of a 3d character
• Bill English (at PARC 1971–1989),^[23] co-invented computer mouse
• David Eppstein (at PARC 1989–1990),^[24] researcher in computational geometry and graph algorithms
• John Ellenby (at PARC 1975–1978),^{[citation needed]} Led AltoII development, 1979 founded GRID Systems
• Matthew K. Franklin (at PARC 1998–2000),^[25] developed pairing-based elliptic-curve cryptography
• Gaetano Borriello (at PARC 1980–1987),^[26] developed Open Data Kit
• Richard Fikes (at PARC 1976-1983), ^[27] leader in representation and use of knowledge in computer systems, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
• Sean R. Garner (at PARC circa 2009– ), researcher in photovoltaics and sustainable engineering
• Charles Geschke (at PARC 1972–1980),^[28] invented page description languages, cofounded Adobe
• Adele Goldberg (at PARC 1973–1986),^[29] codesigned Smalltalk, president of ACM
• Jack Goldman (at PARC 1970–),^[30] Xerox chief scientist 1968–1982, founded PARC in 1970
• Bill Gosper (at PARC 1977–1981),^[31] founded the hacker community, pioneered symbolic computation
• Rich Gossweiler (at PARC 1997–2000),^[32] software engineer, expert in interaction design
• Rebecca Grinter (at PARC 2000–2004),^[33] researcher in human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work
• Neil Gunther (at PARC 1982–1990),^[34] developed open-source performance modeling software
• Jürg Gutknecht (at PARC 1984–1985), programming language researcher, designer, with Niklaus Wirth
• Marti Hearst (at PARC 1994–1997),^[35] expert in computational linguistics and search engine user interfaces
• Jeffrey Heer (at PARC 2001-2005),^[36] expert in information visualization and interactive data analysis
• Bruce Horn (at PARC 1973–1981),^[37] member of 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– ),^[38] developed internet congestion control protocols and diagnostics
• Natalie Jeremijenko (at PARC 1995),^[39] installation artist
• Ted Kaehler (at PARC 1972–1985),^[40] developed key systems for original Smalltalk, later Apple HyperCard, Squeak
• Ronald Kaplan (at PARC 1974–2006),^[41][42] expert in natural language processing, helped develop Interlisp
• Jussi Karlgren (at PARC 1991-1992),^[43] known for work on stylistics, evaluation of search technology, and statistical semantics
• Lauri Karttunen (at PARC 1987–2011),^[44] developed finite state morphology in computational linguistics
• Alan Kay (at PARC 1971–1981),^[45] pioneered object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces
• Martin Kay (at PARC 1974–2002 ),^[41] expert on machine translation and computational linguistics
• Gregor Kiczales (at PARC 1984–2002),^[46] invented aspect-oriented programming
• Ralph Kimball (at PARC 1972–1982),^[47] designed first commercial workstation with mice, icons, and windows
• András Kornai (at PARC 1988-1991),^[48] mathematical linguist
• Butler Lampson (at PARC 1971–1983),^[49] won Turing Award for his development of networked personal computers
• David M. Levy (at PARC 1984–1999),^[50] researcher on information overload
• Jia Li (at PARC 1999–2000),^[51] researcher in computer vision and image retrieval
• Cristina Lopes (at PARC 1995–2002),^[52] researcher in aspect-oriented programming and ubiquitous computing
• Richard Francis Lyon (at PARC 1977–1981),^[53] built the first optical mouse
• Jock D. Mackinlay (at PARC 1986–2004)^[54] researcher in information visualization
• Cathy Marshall (at PARC circa 1989–2000), researcher on hypertext and personal archiving
• Edward M. McCreight (at PARC 1971–1989)^[55] co-invented B-trees
• Scott A. McGregor (at PARC 1978–1983)^[56] worked on Xerox Star, Viewers for Cedar and then Windows 1.0 at Microsoft
• Sheila McIlraith (at PARC 1997–1998),^[57] researcher in artificial intelligence and the semantic web
• Ralph Merkle (at PARC 1988–1999),^[58] 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),^[59] co-invented Ethernet, formulated Metcalfe's Law
• James G. Mitchell (at PARC 1971–1984),^[60] developed WATFOR compiler, Mesa (programming language), Spring (operating system), ARM RISC chip
• Louis Monier (at PARC 1983–1989),^[61] founded AltaVista search engine
• J Strother Moore (at PARC 1973-1976),^[62] text editing, Interlisp VM, string searching, theorem proving
• Thomas P. Moran (at PARC 1974–2001),^[63] founded journal Human-Computer Interaction
• James H. Morris (at PARC 1974–1982),^[64] co-invented KMP string matching algorithm and lazy evaluation
• Elizabeth Mynatt (at PARC 1995–1998),^[65] studied digital family portraits and ubiquitous computing
• Greg Nelson (at PARC 1980–1981),^[66] satisfiability modulo theories, extended static checking, program verification, Modula-3, theorem prover
• Martin Newell (at PARC 1979–1981),^[67] graphics expert who created the Utah teapot
• William Newman (at PARC 1973–1979), Graphics and HCI researcher, developed drawing and page description software
• Tina Ng (at PARC 2006–2015),^[68] expert on additive manufacture of flexible electronics
• Geoffrey Nunberg (at PARC 1987–2001),^[69] linguist known for his work on lexical semantics
• Severo Ornstein (at PARC 1976–1983),^[70] founding head of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Valeria de Paiva (at PARC 2000–2008),^[71] uses logic and category theory to model natural language
• George Pake (at PARC 1970–1986),^[72] pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance, founding director of PARC
• Jan O. Pedersen (at PARC circa 1990-1996),^{[citation needed]} researcher in search system technology and algorithms
• Peter Pirolli (at PARC 1991–2016 ),^[73] developed information foraging theory
• Calvin Quate (at PARC 1983–1994),^[74] invented the atomic force microscope
• Ashwin Ram (at PARC circa 2011–2016 ), researcher on artificial intelligence for health applications
• Trygve Reenskaug (at PARC 1978–1979),^[75] formulated model–view–controller user interface design
• George G. Robertson (at PARC circa 1988–1995), information visualization expert
• Daniel M. Russell (at PARC 1982–1993), AI and UI research; later at Apple, then at Google, where he calls himself a search anthropologist
• Eric Schmidt (at PARC 1982–1983),^[76] CEO of Google and chairman of Alphabet
• Ronald V. Schmidt (at PARC 1980–1985),^[77] computer network engineer who founded SynOptics
• Michael Schroeder (at PARC circa 1977–1985), co-invented Needham–Schroeder protocol for encrypted networking
• Bertrand Serlet (at PARC 1985–1989),^[78] led the Mac OS X team
• Scott Shenker (at PARC 1984–1998),^[79] leader in software-defined networking
• John Shoch (at PARC 1971–1980),^[80] developed an important predecessor of TCP/IP networking
• Richard Shoup (at PARC 1971–1978),^{[citation needed]} invented SUPERPAINT and the first 8 bit Frame Buffer (picture memory), 1979 cofounded Aurora
• Charles Simonyi (at PARC 1972-1981),^[81] led the creation of Microsoft Office
• Alvy Ray Smith (at PARC 1974),^[82] cofounded Pixar
• Brian Cantwell Smith (at PARC 1982–1996),^[83] invented introspective programming and researches computational metaphors
• David Canfield Smith (at PARC 1975),^[84] invented interface icons, programming by demonstration, worked on graphical user interface, Xerox Star
• Robert Spinrad (at PARC 1978–1982),^[85] designed vacuum tube computers, directed PARC
• Bob Sproull (at PARC 1973–1977),^[86] designed early head-mounted display, wrote widely used computer graphics textbook
• Jessica Staddon (at PARC 2001–2010),^[87] information privacy researcher
• Gary Starkweather (at PARC 1970–1988),^[88] invented laser printers and color management
• Maureen C. Stone (at PARC circa 1980–1998), expert in color modeling
• Lucy Suchman (at PARC 1980–2000),^[89] researcher on human factors, cybercultural anthropology, and feminist theory
• Bert Sutherland (at PARC 1975–1981),^[90] brought social scientists to PARC
• Robert Taylor (at PARC 1970–1983),^[91] managed early ARPAnet development, founded DEC Systems Research Center
• Warren Teitelman (at PARC 1972–1984),^[92] designed Interlisp
• Shang-Hua Teng (at PARC 1991–1992),^[93] invented smoothed analysis of algorithms and near-linear-time Laplacian solvers
• Larry Tesler (at PARC 1973–1980),^[94] developed Object Pascal and Apple Newton
• Chuck Thacker (at PARC 1971–1983),^[95] chief designer of Alto, co-invented Ethernet
• John Warnock (at PARC 1978–1982),^[96] cofounded Adobe
• Mark Weiser (at PARC 1987–1999),^[97] invented ubiquitous computing
• Niklaus Wirth (at PARC 1976–1977 and 1984–1985),^[98] designed Pascal and other programming languages
• Frances Yao (at PARC 1979–1999),^[99] researcher in computational geometry and combinatorial algorithms
• Nick Yee (at PARC 2005-2012),^[100] researcher in psychology and sociology of virtual environments
• Annie Zaenen (at PARC 2001–2011),^[101] researcher on linguistic encoding of temporal and spatial information
• Lixia Zhang (at PARC 1989–1996),^[102] computer networking pioneer