"WASHINGTON - A team of former Xerox Corp. engineers received a national engineering prize Tuesday for work in creating the first personal computers in the early 1970s.
The National Academy of Engineering awarded the $500,000 Charles Stark Draper prize to Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor and Charles P. Thacker for designing a "technical achievement that has changed almost every aspect of our lives."
The four engineers worked for Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California three decades ago, where they formed the core of a group of scientists and researchers in creating early personal computers.
Their project included features like the Ethernet, the laser printer and the overlapping "window-based" graphical user interface, all in 1973."
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Feb 24, 2004, 09:47 PM
