PC designers honoured
p2pnet.net News:- Four ex-Xerox engineers have been honoured for creating the first PCs in the early 1970s.
Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor and Charles P. Thacker were awarded the $500,000 by the National Academy of Engineers for designing a "technical achievement that has changed almost every aspect of our lives" when they worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in California three decades ago.
There, "they formed the core of a group of scientists and researchers in creating early personal computers," says an Associated Press report here.
"We wanted to make the computer an indispensable part of everything that people do with information," Lampson, now a Microsoft engineer," is quoted as saying.
