actively and successfully introduced by Xerox to the business and consumer markets. Distinguished researchers Among PARC's distinguished researchers were three Turing Award winners: Butler W. Lampson (1992), Alan Kay (2003), and Charles P. Thacker (2009). The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Software System Award recognized the Alto system in 1984, Smalltalk in 1987, InterLisp in 1992, and the remote procedure call in 1994. Lampson, Kay, Bob Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker received the National Academy of Engineering's prestigious Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2004 for their work on the Alto. See also GlobalView List of people associated with PARC Xerox Daybreak (a.k.a. Xerox Windows 6085) References Further reading Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (HarperCollins, New York, 1999) Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander, Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer (William Morrow and Company, New York, 1988) M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Viking Penguin, New York, 2001) Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought (MIT Press, 2000) Todd R. Weiss, "Xerox PARC turns 40: Making four decades of tech innovation" Computerworld, 2010 External links PARC official website Xerox Star Historical Documents MacKiDo article Oral history interview with Terry Allen Winograd Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Oral history interview with Paul A. Strassmann Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Oral history interview with William Crowther Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis PARC History of human–computer interaction Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Technology transfer Flexible displays Research organizations in the United States Companies based in Palo Alto, California Technology companies established in 1970 Software companies of the United States Science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area Research and development in the United States Corporate spin-offs 1970 establishments in California