Gary Starkweather, the low-key engineer behind 'arguably the greatest invention' at Xerox, died Dec. 26. He was 81.
One of the enduring myths about Xerox PARC, the legendary Palo Alto Research Center that invented the personal computer and other seminal technologies, was that Xerox never made any money from its incredible roster of innovations.
“Gary was one of those people who flew under the radar,” says Doug Fairbairn, a former PARC member now at the Computer History Museum. “He never got a lot of publicity or credit for what he did.” A graduate of Michigan State University, Starkweather was working at Xerox’s main research lab in Webster, N.Y., when he developed the first iterations of laser printing technology.
As he told an audience assembled by the Computer History Museum in March 1997, she replied, “I’ll have the furniture in the street before you get home. So it wasn’t a big convincing job.”
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