After his work at
ARPA as
director in 1966, Bob Taylor was hired to help build a new
research center, in 1970, for
Xerox in
Palo Alto. He wanted it near a major university where new
ideas were already being created, it was finally decided to build near
Stanford. Although his credentials were not that great, he knew a lot of
great minds within the industry and sought out the
brightest and most
intelligent persons of the time to work with him in what came to be known as the
Xerox PARC Group. As the head of the largest division in the PARC, Taylor helped
pioneer such
innovations as the
Internet,
monitor,
laptop, and other
modern technology. Later, in 1983, he founded the
Digital Equipment's Systems Research Center in
Palo Alto. His main co-worker was
Alan Kay, also a
visionary of the time. Taylor's
effective management techniques, and
unparalleled imagination, made him on of the greatest and most
influencial figures of
computer history.
Quote: "There are a lot of people who think that Al Gore or Bill Gates invented the Internet. It's all right. It doesn't bother me. I know what I did".