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At Xerox, "Innovation Changes Everything"
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The Egyptians were the first to codify knowledge through writing. It started with
hieroglyphics. Certainly, Egypt's innovation by writing and codifying knowledge changed
the world. It's an amazing parallel with what Xerox people did 50 years ago.
To put marks on paper through dry copying made knowledge-sharing simple. It all started
with Chester Carlson's invention of xerography. Carlson was a quiet man with big ideas and
even bigger dreams. His motivation to invent xerography - which he had called
"electrophotography" - was deceptively simple: "To make office workers a little more
productive and office work a little simpler and less tedious." On that modest statement,
Carlson created and entire industry.
Carlson envisioned the future - that is true. More important than that, he had the courage
to act on his vision and he ignited a technological revolution that forever transformed
offices and democratized information more than four decades ago.
His 1938 invention led to the first Xerox 914 produced in 1959. It was the world's first
automated plain-paper copier.
Xerox continued to patent the innovation of its scientists and engineers over the years
and has earned over 15,000 U.S. patents - a remarkable testimony to the innovation and
creativity of Xerox's research and development community.
Creating New Industries
Xerox merged the electronic data stream from mainframe computers with xerographic engines
in 1977 and released the first high-speed laser printer - the 9700.
This created an industry known as transaction printing. Machines like the 9700 printed
your phone bills, bank statements and electric bills.
We launched the DocuTech in 1990 and created the on-demand publishing industry, and in
1996 we introduced the DocuColor 40 - the first digital color press - and created the
digital color publishing industry.
Xerox has leveraged product innovation over the years to create new industries, add new
dimensions to the ways people communicate and allow them to share knowledge more
broadly.
That is the past . . . and what a glorious past. Now, we look to the future. Our
scientists in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan are turning today's vision of the future
into tomorrow's reality. Approximately 900 scientists and engineers are discovering new
technologies that reinvent our machines, rethink how people work and redefine the
document.
This past year, for instance, Xerox launched the DocuColor iGen3 digital production press.
This market-making system prints at 100 pages per minute in full color with a stunning
image quality.
Xerox has put all its innovation and smarts into this press. The "i" stands for innovation
and "Gen3" is for third generation color. This is an amazing machine, a mechanical
engineering marvel that applies the most modern digital technologies and artificial
intelligence. We call it a smart press. Take a look inside and you will find 85 computers,
5 million lines of software code, 3.5 miles of wires, 192 sensors and 102 motors.
It prints on both sides of the paper and - for the first time - the image quality rivals
offset.
It has been a long journey from the 914 to the iGen3, and the journey does not end here.
We are constantly reinventing our machines and making them smarter, faster, better and
less expensive.
Connecting People and Knowledge
Finding the right information at the right time and being able to share it economically
is a real challenge. Xerox Innovation Group researchers have developed a suite of software
offerings that help people share, access, find, grow and manage knowledge.
The researchers centered their work on how people worked - a fairly unique approach.
Anthropologists helped our researchers understand how people connect to knowledge. Then
they developed the technologies that fit the work practice and culture. Here's some of
what has come out of Xerox's labs:
DocuShare: An easy,
secure, Web-based solution for managing and sharing information across organizations.
askOnce:
A search engine that acts as a one-stop access to all knowledge spaces in an
organization.
LinkLite:
Enables users to solve a problem only once, then capture and share the solution with others
in a user community.
Because our researchers developed these software solutions with people in their work
practice in mind, Xerox is finding great acceptance and adoption of these knowledge
offerings.
Xerox will continue to innovate - not only underscoring its legacies of the past but also
leading the ways to the future.
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| 2008
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| Xerox Honors Local Inventors at Annual Patent Dinner
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| Public Gets Sneak Peek at Xerox’s Erasable Paper at WIRED NextFest
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| Xerox Makes Environmental Remediation Patents Available to All Through Eco-Patent Commons
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| Scientists Develop 3-D Document Visualization for "No Surprises" Printing
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| DARPA program builds on PARC foundation in printing large-area, flexible electronics
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| Xerox Joins IORG
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| Xerox Research Centre Europe coordinates EU CACAO project to provide cross-language access to online catalogues and libraries
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| Incubating Inside Xerox Labs: Innovation that Benifits the Workplace, Healthcare, and the Environment
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| Robert Loce Elected SPIE Fellow
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| Rochester Engineering Society Celebrates Technical Excellence
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| Xerox is Among the World's Best Analyst Competing to Win the Edelman Prize for Achievemnt in Operations Research & Analytics
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| Patent Powerhouse: Xerox Boasts 101 Inventors with 50 or More Patents
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| 2007
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| Xerox Reveals Breakthrough Software that Categorizes Text and Images at the Same Time
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| Xerox funds new services laboratory at NC State University
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| The Science Consultant Program: Bringing Science to Life for 40 Years
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| Xerox Technology Tricks Counterfeiters
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| Xerox Opens Its Labs to Journalists on TechDay
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| R&D Magazine Lauds Xerox FreeFlow VI Software Suite
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| Getting to 100 before 50; Xerox scientist Bob Loce Reaches Patent Milestone
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| Xerox to Fund Green, Nano, Imaging Fellowships at MIT School of Engineering
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| Know-How Results in breakthrough paper: saves trees and money
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| Xerox Funds 11 New University Research Projects
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| Surpassing Search: New Xerox text mining software goes beyond "keywords" to deliver more relevant information
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| Xerox receives the National Medal of Technology
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| Now You See It, Now You Don't: Xerox Scientists Develop Fluorescent Writing To Deter Counterfeiting
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| Xerox Scientist Creates 'Color Language' Making Color Matching as Easy as Describing a Color
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| PARC Scientist Stu Card Wins Franklin Institute Bower Award for Achievement in Science
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| Inside Innovation at Xerox: Scientists Create a Rainbow of Custom Blended Colors for DocuTech Highlight Color Systems
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| Xerox's Santokh Badesha Reaches Rare Milestone; Inventor Awarded 150th Patent
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| Content Centric Networking
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| Groundbreaking Canadian Nanotechnology Partnership Lays Foundation For Big Success From Tiny Tech
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| Xerox Awarded 27 Percent More Patents In 2006
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Contact Us: for questions about Xerox research and innovation, patents or technology
licensing, scientific work and related inquiries, please email:
xigwebmaster@xerox.com
Outside Submissions: Xerox encourages and welcomes unsolicited ideas and suggestions. More information on submitting your ideas to Xerox for review can be found here.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us by email at Outsidesubmissions@xerox.com.
For all other inquiries, please use the appropriate contacts listed at Contact Xerox.
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