In 1972, Xerox released an advert for the Alto, introducing people to the world’s first computer with a graphical user interface, mouse, and distinctive portrait screen. In 1972, Xerox released an ...

It's no secret that Xerox helped invent the modern computer. At the famed Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox researchers dreamt up everything from the graphical user interface and laser printing to ...

Beyond its printer and copier legacy, many people think of Xerox as the company that created the graphical user interface but lost its chance to popularize. At MIT Technology Review’s EmTech ...

There was once a time when humans couldn’t interact with computers except via punch cards. Since then we’ve upgraded to flashing green cursors demanding lines of code, then to the point-and-click ...

Fifty years ago, the word “computer” had a very different meaning. Prior to World War II, the word referred not to machines, but to people (mostly women in order to save costs) hired as human ...