Palo Alto Research Center
Xerox research lab where Smalltalk, the mouse-driven GUI, and other computing concepts were developed, influencing AI and software design.
2 milestones
Commercial Lisp Machine Market: Symbolics and LMI
From 1980 onwards, Symbolics Inc. and Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI), both founded as spin-offs from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, commercialised dedicated hardware workstations designed to run Lisp natively, offering large address spaces, garbage collection in hardware, and early graphical interfaces tailored to AI development.
Smalltalk-72 Developed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and Adele Goldberg
In 1972, Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls at Xerox PARC produced Smalltalk-72, the first working implementation of the Smalltalk language, which embodied Kay's concept of object-oriented programming in which all computation proceeds by objects sending messages to one another.