PERSONAL COMPUTER PIONEER GOLDMAN DIES
Published: Dec. 22, 2011 at 6:44 PM
WESTPORT, Conn., Dec. twenty-two (UPI) — Physicist Jacob “Jack” Goldman, the owner of Xerox’s legendary PARC investigate core in Palo Alto, Calif., has died at the age of 90, his family said.
Goldman, Xerox’s longtime arch scientist, died of congestive heart disaster Tuesday at his home in Westport, Conn., his son Melvin told The New York Times.
While portion as arch technical military officer and comparison vice boss for investigate and growth at Xerox, Goldman combined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Researchers at the important trickery grown the laser printer, the graphical user interface for computers, Ethernet, and other technological breakthroughs critical to personal computing, as well as arguably inventing the Personal Computer itself, PCMag.com reported.
Goldman, innate in Brooklyn on Jul 18, 1921, was on the production expertise at the Carnegie Institute of Technology — right away Carnegie Mellon University — was a visiting highbrow at MIT in 1959 and worked at the Ford Motor Co. as executive of the automaker’s Scientific Research Laboratory prior to fasten Xerox in 1968.
In his early retirement Goldman took on assorted advisory positions with supervision and commercial operation and served on the house of a numbers of companies, together with Xerox.
Published: Dec. 22, 2011 at 6:44 PM
WESTPORT, Conn., Dec. twenty-two (UPI) — Physicist Jacob “Jack” Goldman, the owner of Xerox’s legendary PARC investigate core in Palo Alto, Calif., has died at the age of 90, his family said.
Goldman, Xerox’s longtime arch scientist, died of congestive heart disaster Tuesday at his home in Westport, Conn., his son Melvin told The New York Times.
While portion as arch technical military officer and comparison vice boss for investigate and growth at Xerox, Goldman combined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Researchers at the important trickery grown the laser printer, the graphical user interface for computers, Ethernet, and other technological breakthroughs critical to personal computing, as well as arguably inventing the Personal Computer itself, PCMag.com reported.
Goldman, innate in Brooklyn on Jul 18, 1921, was on the production expertise at the Carnegie Institute of Technology — right away Carnegie Mellon University — was a visiting highbrow at MIT in 1959 and worked at the Ford Motor Co. as executive of the automaker’s Scientific Research Laboratory prior to fasten Xerox in 1968.
In his early retirement Goldman took on assorted advisory positions with supervision and commercial operation and served on the house of a numbers of companies, together with Xerox.