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Incubating Inside Xerox Labs: Innovation that Benefits the Workplace, Healthcare, and the Environment
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Xerox and global partners reveal unexpected projects during Inside Innovation event at PARC
From adding intelligence and automation to documents to breaking new frontiers in clean tech and bio-medical domains, Xerox and its global innovation partners lifted the curtain on a diverse set of innovative projects being nurtured in laboratories around the world.
"Our mission is to deliver innovations that solve the problems our customers face today while creating visionary technologies for tomorrow and beyond," said Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox chief technology officer and president of the Xerox Innovation Group. "Technology touches our lives in major ways and is core to sustainable global growth. Scientists and engineers at Xerox are inspired by the significant impact their work will continue to have on our customers, our company and on society."
The 2008 "Inside Innovation at Xerox" held at the Palo Alto Research Center featured scientists from research centers in New York, Toronto, France, Palo Alto and Oregon, and from partner labs in Tokyo at Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., and in Israel from XMPie, a Xerox software company. They showcased 10 new technologies including:
- Clean Tech. PARC scientists have designed new solar collectors and water filtration systems as part of a comprehensive portfolio of clean tech projects that could be as revolutionary for the environment as its technologies were for the workplace.
- Biomedical/Rare Cell Detection. PARC is exploring innovations in biology and healthcare, including detection of rare cancer cells and molecular characterization of them to predict effective therapies.
- Greener Plastics. To reduce electronic waste, scientists from Fuji Xerox have developed a "biomass" plastic partially made from corn stalks.
- Self-erasing, reusable paper. Xerox scientists have invented a way to make prints with temporary images, so that the paper can be used again and again.
- Advances in print heads. Xerox continues to stengthen its proprietary solid ink technology with improvements to its unique print head design.
- Intelligent redaction. Xerox and PARC scientists are developing easier ways to access and sort through content from massive amounts of documents, for what can or can't be seen, printed or copied.
- Next generation categorization. Xerox was the first to create a system to classify digital images. Now it can simultaneously tag both text and images, for more effective categorization of online and paper-based documents.
- Seamless documents. At Fuji Xerox's U.S. labs, scientists are solving the problem of easy access to documents on small-screen devices such as cell phones.
- One-to-one communications technology. XMPie has developed unique technology that marries data and images to create powerful personalized communications.
- Higher dimensions of documents. Xerox scientists are developing multi-dimensional technologies, like pop-up photos, that add impact to print products and production methods.
The projects reflect Xerox's focus to make documents and document-intensive processes smarter and easier while leveraging its know-how to make a difference for its customers and communities.
Last year, Xerox was awarded 584 U.S. utility patents. Together with Fuji Xerox, Xerox holds about 8,600 active U.S. patents and continues to invest $1.4 billion a year in research and development.
Delivering Smarter Document Services
Xerox continues to invest a significant portion of research in services for document- intensive business processes, leveraging Smarter Document Technologies that enable documents to organize, update, route and protect themselves. Whether it's finding the evidence to win their legal case, getting the information to approve a mortgage, accepting a student, hiring an employee, or getting the right medicine to the right patient at the right time, Xerox software tools and services will swiftly deliver relevant, accurate and augmented information.
At the conference, Xerox scientists showcased services that help people find what they are looking for faster and more precisely, as well as technologies that embed intelligence within the document itself to help automate many manual tasks and make them more accurate.
Making a Difference in the World
Clean tech research is one of many projects resulting from Xerox's collaborative approach to innovation. PARC researchers are applying their expertise in particle manipulation, honed through years of manipulating toner particles for Xerox printers, to develop novel methods for creating a sustainable environment including less expensive solar energy, a membrane-free method of purifying water; and surprising ideas for new fuel sources - fast-growing algae or carbon dioxide extracted from the atmosphere.
The Fuji Xerox "biomass" plastic, already in use in several FX products, is a result of an active research and development program designed to replace plastic parts in multifunction devices and printers with environmentally-friendly materials.
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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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