The Systems Research Center (SRC) was a research laboratory created by
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1984, in
Palo Alto,
California.
DEC SRC was founded by a group of computer scientists, led by
Robert Taylor, who left the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) of
Xerox PARC after an internal power struggle. SRC survived the takeover of DEC by
Compaq in 1998. It was renamed to "Compaq Systems Research Center". When Compaq was acquired by
Hewlett-Packard
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in 2002, SRC was merged with other HP corporate research labs and relocated there.
After Taylor's retirement, the lab was directed by Roy Levin and then by Lyle Ramshaw.
Some of the important developments made at SRC include the
Modula-3 programming language; the
snoopy cache, used in the first multiprocessor workstation, the
Firefly
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,
built from
MicroVAX 78032 microprocessors; the first multi-threaded Unix system, Taos; the first user interface editor; early networked window systems, Trestle.
AltaVista was jointly developed by researchers from DEC's Network Systems Laboratory, Western Research Laboratory and Systems Research Center. Among the researchers at SRC, there are
Butler Lampson,
Chuck Thacker
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Biography
Tha ...
, and
Leslie Lamport, all recipients of the
ACM A.M. Turing Award.
A later inhabitant of this building is
A9.com
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, a research part of
Amazon.com.
References
External links
Downloadable SRC publicationsArchived SRC Lab site
Buildings and structures in Santa Clara County, California
Systems Research Center
Laboratories in the United States
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