Sunday, December 25, 2011

Jacob E. Goldman, Founder of Xerox Lab, Dies at 90 - NYTimes.com

Jacob E. Goldman, a physicist who as Xerox’s chief scientist founded the company’s vaunted Palo Alto Research Center, which invented the modern personal computer, died on Tuesday in Westport, Conn. He was 90.

The cause was congestive heart failure, his son Melvin said.

Emblematic of a time when American corporations invested heavily in basic scientific research, Dr. Goldman played an important role both at the Ford Motor Company, during the 1950s, and later at Xerox in the 1960s and 1970s, in financing such endeavors in an effort to spark corporate innovation.




Jacob E. Goldman, Founder of Xerox Lab, Dies at 90 - NYTimes.com

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