“Innovation” is one of the most overused buzzwords in business today. As technology has become the backbone of our increasingly global society, everyone from politicians to professors is talking about innovation. While many companies focus on developing flashy, new technologies, too many of them are missing what lies at the…
Naval Postgraduate School and Xerox Collaborate to Advance Additive Manufacturing Solutions
In January 2021, the Department of Defense published its first-ever Additive Manufacturing Strategy to “provide a shared set of guiding principles and a framework for [additive manufacturing] technology development and transition to support modernization and Warfighter readiness” across the military. Additive manufacturing (AM) – more commonly known as 3D printing – is…
U.S NAVY PARTNERS WITH XEROX FOR 3D PRINTING RESEARCH, INSTALLS XEROX ELEMX 3D PRINTER
The US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has announced a research collaboration with global print and digital document corporation Xerox to explore the potential for 3D printing to transform how the military supplies its deployed forces. As part of the agreement, NPS has installed the Xerox ElemX Liquid Metal 3D printer on its university campus.…
Xerox plans to mass produce disposable ventilators
The portable device wouldn’t replace hospital-grade ventilators but could be a stopgap measure for some COVID-19 patients. WASHINGTON — Xerox, known for making copies, is set to announce Monday that it will be “rapidly scaling up” production of inexpensive, disposable ventilators that could serve as a critical stopgap for ICU-grade…
PARC is turning 50: From ethernet and laser printing to this wild new tech
The legendary Palo Alto Research Center has been the beating heart of tech development during a legendary half-century of R&D. From the ethernet and laser printing to fiber optics and natural language processing, Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has been at the heart of some of tech’s most important breakthroughs. This…
Naresh Shanker Has 100 Year Old Xerox Thinking Like A Startup
Naresh Shanker is a pivot expert. He has been the Chief Information Officer of companies like Palm after its lead in personal digital assistants had fallen. He joined HP as CIO, and led the separation of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) from HP in record time with remarkably few hiccups along the…