Lors de ma #balade au #parc local j'ai trouvé un écrou géant tombé des cieux 😀
Une tour à la toiture tout à fait typique, un héron, un hérisson pas comme les autres et un concert de grenouilles étaient de la partie aussi #photography
#Sculpture d'une femme au Parc de la Tête d'Or à #Lyon. La vue de dos est encore plus sensuelle...
J'ai malheureusement oublié de noter le titre de l’œuvre et le nom du sculpteur : pfff, pas bien sérieux, ça 🙄
What was it like to work at Xerox PARC at its peak?
This guide for newcomers to the lab, published 40 years ago in 1983, introduces the computing and social environment of PARC. Lots of quirky systems and obscure lore.
@cloudguy I'm more or less certain that NLS (oNLine System) from Doug Engelbart's ARC (Augmentation Research Center) group at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) already demonstrated copying and pasting of text in the 1968 "Mother of All Demos".
However, it is true, if perhaps lesser known, that Xerox's PARC had a cross-licensing arrangement with SRI and SAIL (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab).
Lamentably, due to Hollywood BS such as Pirates of Silicon Valley, many (almost all?) in pop culture erroneously attribute inventions to PARC which were previously invented under Engelbart's team and elsewhere.
For example even earlier, Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad (movie clip below from 1962, doctoral thesis completed in 1963) had copying and pasting graphical objects and object inheritance, a clip here narrated by Alan Kay (who was a student of Sutherland and also later worked at PARC):
1973 #Ethernet as one of the defining information technologies in modern communication was developed at #PARC by Chuck Thackers for #Alto#Computer s. What Bob Metcalf, Butler Lampson, and Dave Boggs built for the #ARPAnet is connecting us all today— via the #Internet, & @fediverse.
J'ai visité ce dimanche le parc du château de Courances (75 hectares), non loin de Fontainebleau.
Un jardin d'eau très poétique, dont les étendues de verdure et les vastes pièces d'eau offrent de superbes perspectives qui portent à la contemplation.
「 Broadly speaking, the PARC researchers set out to explore possible technologies for use in what Xerox had tagged “the office of the future.” They aimed to develop the kind of computing hardware and software that they thought could be both technologically and economically possible, desirable, and, perhaps to a lesser extent, profitable in about 10 to 15 years 」
— Spectrum IEEE
@jbzfn
It was fun while it lasted, but the folks at Xerox proper didn't seem to know what they wanted to do. Read Paul Strassman's book for a view of the situation from Rochester.