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Xerox PARC
Extracted from the Wikipedia article PARC (company).
Xerox PARC has been foundational to numerous revolutionary computer developments, including laser printing, Ethernet, the modern personal computer and its graphical user interface (GUI) and desktop metaphor–paradigm, the computer mouse, object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, electronic paper, amorphous silicon (a-Si) applications , and very-large-scale integration (VLSI) for semiconductors.