Xerox PARC Founder Jack Goldman Dies at 90

Physicist Jacob "Jack" Goldman, the founder of Xerox's fabled idea incubator in Palo Alto, Calif. and the company's long time chief scientist, has died at the age of 90. Goldman died of congestive heart failure on Tuesday, his son Melvin told The New York Times.

Goldman, born in Brooklyn on July 18, 1921, was on the physics faculty at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and served as a visiting professor at MIT in 1959. He worked at the Ford Motor Company as director of the automaker's Scientific Research Laboratory before joining Xerox in 1968.

While presiding over four research labs and serving as chief technical officer and senior vice president for research and development at Xerox, Goldman created two of the company's R&D hubs, the Xerox Research Center of Canada and, of course, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC.

Goldman hired fellow physicist George Pake (April 1, 1924 – March 4, 2004) to run Xerox PARC in 1970. Researchers at the famous Silicon Valley lab would go on to develop the laser printer, the graphical user interface (GUI), Ethernet, and other technological breakthroughs that formed the foundation of personal computing, as well as arguably inventing the PC itself.

Despite the wishes of Pake and others to do so, Xerox never created a PC division around its Xerox PARC resources, instead watching as others—most famously Apple and its late co-founder Steve Jobs—built upon and commercialized the Palo Alto lab's inventions.

In his retirement, Goldman assumed various advisory positions with government and business, while serving as a director on the boards of Xerox, General Instrument, United Brands, and several other companies.

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It's only coincidence, but even as simulating 3D stereoscopically has gotten more and more popular in movies, TVs, and home theater projectors, a completely different type of 3D?the kind that deals with real-world, 3D objects?has also become a hot new area for printers. And because it's so new, when I started talking to Buildatron Systems about reviewing one of its 3D printers (stay tuned for that story), I also asked if I could tour its ... ummm ... manufacturing facilities.

That's a decidedly grandiose description for the few-hundred square foot office space where Buildatron puts its printers together. But the space is probably no smaller than the garage that the two Steves?Wozniack and Jobs?started with.

The comparison to Apple's?and, more broadly, the personal computer's?early days is hard to avoid. In fact, the parallels are striking. Like mainframe and mini computers in the mid 1970s, expensive 3D printers are well established today for lots of applications, from architectural modeling to printing dental crowns while you wait. And just as computers at prices individuals could afford were a brand new development in 1975, so too are affordable 3D printers today.

More than that, what you might reasonably call the personal 3D printer industry is at about the same level of development now as personal computers were in roughly 1975 or 1976. Back then, the 8080-based Altair 8800 and the 6502-based Apple I were generating lots of interest and excitement among hobbyists, but they weren't quite ready for the mainstream.

You can make the same statement about 3D printers today, which is why one of the explicit goals of Buildatron's three founders and directors?James Wolff, Dan Liotti, and Zach Hines?is to make the 3D printer (preferably Buildatron's of course), as common a household fixture as the computer. The one important piece that's missing is a software application that will do for 3D printing what VisiCalc did for the Apple II, namely: Make the printers immediately useful to mainstream users. (That's probably not too far away, but it's a subject for a different discussion.)

The current state of the industry shows in our photos if you know what to look for. A long time ago I wrote a piece that was, among other things, trying to get across what a real research lab is like. I sent a photographer to get some pictures of one, but he came back with pristine workbenches from what turned out to be a high school chem lab.

When I asked what happened, he told me that the research lab was so cluttered that he couldn't take photos he was happy with. I told him that the clutter was the point and sent him back to try again. Buildatron's work areas show the same kind of organized chaos that I expect to see in a working research lab.

Not so incidentally, Buildatron is part of the RepRap community. RepRap is shorthand for replicating rapid prototyper. The RepRap project's goal is to encourage the widespread distribution of 3D printers by developing open designs that can actually print most of the parts you need to build another printer. Open design for physical objects is the equivalent of open source for software, with designs available under the free GNU General Public License.

The Buildatron printers are based on the Crusa Mendel RepRap design. Buy one printer and you can print more. Buildatron will be happy to sell you just the parts that the machine can't print, as well as the rolls of plastic filament you need both for the parts it can print and for anything else you're interested in printing.

Buildatron came out with its first printer in September 2011. When I contacted one of the founders and began discussing coming by for a tour, he wanted to wait until the second model, the Buildatron 2, was ready. By December 2011, it was, at $1,599 in kit form or $2,500 prebuilt. When I got the word, I immediately made arrangements to swing by, and showed up with a backup photographer (aka, our analyst Tony Hoffman), as well as my own camera in hand.

Buildatron is housed in the Greenpoint Lofts building in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, which offers a mix of residential areas and light industry. Greenpoint Lofts is basically an incubator operation, with lots of startups in an assortment of industries. The building is filled with recording studios, light manufacturing, film industry related companies, and Buildatron Systems, which takes up one office on the 3rd floor.

Greenpoint is just over and a touch north of the Williamsburg Bridge from Manhattan?or the city, as New Yorker's tend to call it. We showed up on a day that was cloudy and occasionally raining. However, we've been assured that we're facing the city in this view, and if it had been a clear day, we would have had a great looking shot of the lower Manhattan skyline from outside Buildatron's door, three floors above the courtyard shown here.

Easy to miss, because it's just to your left as you come in through the doorway, this impressive looking piece of machinery is a laser cutter. Buildatron says it was used mainly with the Buildatron 1, for cutting the case from acrylic. The new model's case is metal, so there's less for the cutter to do. However, Buildatron still produces a few components on the cutter, so it still gets some use.

On the right as you walk in is this imposing collection of tools plus various odds and ends. Don't let that scare you away from a DIY kit, however. Buildatron collected these tools over time, and the company says that you need only a hex driver, and "a couple of wrenches" to build a printer from the kit.

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HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus e-All-in-One

Aimed squarely at micro and small offices, the HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus e-All-in-One ($299.99 direct) is more directly competitive with low-end color laser MFPs like the HP LaserJet Pro 100 Color MFP M175nw ($349.99 direct, 3 stars) than with inkjets. Because it's an inkjet, however, it can also offer high-quality photos, a trick that makes it appropriate for the dual role of home and home office MFP too. More important, it performs well enough to make it a good fit in any of these roles, and even serve as a heavy-duty personal MFP, if you have the room for it.

If there's an important feature you might want in an office color multi-function printer (MFP) that you won't find in the 8600 Plus, I don't know what it could be.

Basic MFP functions include printing, scanning, and faxing, including over a network, as well as working as a standalone copier, fax machine, and email sender, and letting you scan to a USB key or memory card. The printer connects by WiFi or Ethernet (as well as USB of course), it supports Apple AirPrint for printing from iThings over Wi-Fi, and it can print through the cloud using HP's ePrint, which lets you assign the printer an email address and then send documents as attachments for printing.

For the home side of the dual role of home and home office MFP, the 8600 Plus also offers such photocentric features as the ability to print from a memory card or USB key and the ability to show images before printing on its 4.3-inch color LCD.

Also worth mention is the legal-size flatbed, which can come in handy in any office, and the touch-screen interface with well-designed menus for the printer control panel. You can also use the touch screen with HP's Web Apps, including for example Biztree Forms App (Free), and Financial Times News App (Free, 3 stars) that I recently reviewed.

Paper Handling and Size

The 8600 Plus also goes well beyond the basics with a built-in print duplexer for printing on both sides of a page and a 50-page automatic document feeder (ADF) that also duplexes, so you can copy from single- or double sided originals to your choice of single- or double-sided copies. You can also scan, fax, or email both simplex and duplex documents.

The 8600 offers reasonably high paper capacity as well, with a 250-sheet input tray, which should be enough for most home, micro, and small offices. If you need more, however, you can add a second 250-sheet tray ($79.99 direct) for a total 500-sheet capacity.

Note too that HP has also announced the HP Officejet Pro 8600 Premium e-All-in-One ($399.99 direct) which HP says is the identical printer with the second tray added plus a set of standard color ink cartridges that normally costs $59.97 and 50 sheets of HP Glossy Brochure paper that normally costs $13.99. Add it all up, and you save about $54 compared with buying the 8600 Plus and then buying the tray, ink, and paper separately.  

As you might expect, the legal-size flatbed by itself is enough to make the 8600 Plus bigger and heavier than most inkjet MFPs. At 12.4 by 19.4 by 18.9 inches (HWD), and 27.8 pounds, it's also a little bigger than you might want to share a desk with. Aside from any issues about finding room for it, however, setup is absolutely typical.

Speed and Output Quality

The 8600 Plus turned in impressive numbers for speed. I timed it on our business applications suite at 5.9 effective pages per minute (ppm). That's not only a notably fast speed for an inkjet, it's well into color laser MFP territory. In fact, the 8600 Plus is significantly faster than the M175nw, which managed only 3.3 ppm, and faster even than the more expensive Editors' Choice Dell 1355cnw Multifunction Color Printer ($419.99 direct, 4 stars), at 4.5 ppm. It also did reasonably well for photo speed, averaging 55 seconds for a 4 by 6.

Output quality is another strong point. Text at small sizes doesn't have quite the crisp edges of laser-printed text, but unless you have an unusual need for small fonts you shouldn't have any complaints. Also worth mention is that although the text isn't quite smudge proof, it smudged very little when I rubbed it with a wet tissue.

Graphics quality is easily good enough for any business need up to and including PowerPoint handouts. I saw some slight banding in some of our test images in default mode, but no other issues. Photos were easily a match for drugstore prints.

One last plus that demands mention is a notably low claimed running cost, at 1.6 cents per black and white page and 7.2 cents per color page. That's actually cheaper than the 2.8 cents for black and white and 8.2 cents for color that Kodak boasts about for its line of MFPs as a key selling point. Print enough pages, and the running cost can make the 8600 Plus cheaper to own over its lifetime than a less expensive MFP with a higher cost per page.

With all these strong points, and no weaknesses that turned up in my testing, the 8600 Plus is one of the most impressive printers to ever come through PC Labs. Its speed is a match for low-cost lasers; its text and graphics quality is suitable for most business needs; its photos are suitable for most home use; it has almost every MFP feature you can think of; it's cheaper to buy than competitive color laser MFPs; and it's even cheap to run.

If you're considering a low-end color laser MFP, and you don't check out the HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus e-All-in-One too, you're making a big mistake. It's one of the most compelling picks for Editors' Choice we've ever seen.

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2012 Tech Outlook: A Look at What's Ahead

The new year promises we'll see a tech revolution, from smartphones capable of making payments to printers handling Web and e-mail printing with greater ease to the launch of the Windows 8 operating system. Laptops, cameras, and the components in our devices will also improve (supposedly) by leaps and bounds. Here's a rundown of what to expect in 2012.

All the pieces are in place for a surge in laptop sales next year--from new Intel chips to the planned launch of the Windows 8 operating system to sleeker designs.

Look for phones with quad-core processors, NFC payment capability, and fantastic displays--but alas, probably not true 24-hour battery life.

Both smartphone cameras and stand-alone cameras will become much more versatile next year, and it should be fun to watch. Here are the major photography trends to expect in 2012.

What does the future hold for processors? We expect more speed and less power consumption, lurking behind unassuming code names such as Ivy Bridge, Piledriver, and Tegra 3.

From mobile malware to social networking attacks, threats to your security and privacy will only grow in the coming year. The growing number of mobile devices, such as phones and tablets, and the popularity of social networks give bad guys new avenues in which to expand their cybercrime.

Want to print from your smartphone or tablet--or from another city? The printers of 2012 will handle that for you--and offer other ways to use the Web or email to make printing easier.

What will tablets look like in the coming year? Tablets are out of their infancy and moving into adolescence--which means that we can expect big changes ahead as tablets' design and components improve.

The most anticipated PC, console, and handheld games of 2012 are--you guessed it--another batch of sequels and remakes! But given some of these games' pedigrees, 2012 promises to be a huge year.

From data-only cell phone plans to HTML 5, these ten advancements are ready to go mainstream in the year to come. We predict that next year the following ten developments will change the way you interact with the digital world.

From Apple's iPhone 5 to next-gen thermostats to OLED TVs, here are 20 tech products we're looking forward to seeing in 2012.

Revolutionary a year ago, dual-core mobile processors are now standard; next, chipmakers say, quad-core processors will support mobile multitasking comparable to the performance of a desktop computer.

The smartphone arena is set for a battle royal over the coming months. We take a look at several phones you might want to hold off your upgrade for.

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Kodak HERO 3.1 All-in-One Printer

The Kodak HERO 3.1 All-in-One Printer ($99.99 direct) is the junior member of Kodak’s HERO line of inkjet multifunction printers (MFPs). It provides a low-priced option with solid home credentials, respectable speed and output quality for its price.

The HERO 3.1, which prints, scans, and copies, is a black machine with silver and red trim, which measures 6.8 by 16.5 by 12.3 inches and weighs 11.9 pounds, closely resembling the Editors’ Choice Kodak ESP C310 All In One Printer ($99.99 direct, 4 stars).  To the right of the lid tilt-up 2.4-inch color LCD lies behind a 4-way controller and some basic control buttons: On, Cancel, Home, Back, Zoom in/Zoom Out, and Start. The HERO 3.1 has a media-card reader that can read cards in the SD, Memory Stick, and MultiMedia Card families, though it lacks a port for a USB thumb drive, one of the features that the Kodak HERO 5.1 ($129.99, 4 stars) adds to the mix.

This MFP has a 100-sheet paper capacity, but lacks an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. It also lacks fax capabilities and an automatic document feeder (ADF), clearly making it an MFP focused on home use and setting it apart from the Editors’ Choice Brother MFC-J430W ($100 street, 4 stars), a business-oriented budget MFP.

The HERO 3:1 includes built-in support for Google Cloud Print and Kodak Email Print, which is essentially an extension to Google Cloud Print. Once you assign the printer an email address through Kodak Email Print, you can print to it from any computer, smartphone, or other device that can send email. You simply create a message, attach the document you want printed, and send it. You don't even need to turn on your computer, thanks to the printer having its own email address, although the printer has to be connected to your network, with your network connected to the Internet.

The HERO 3.1 can connect to a LAN via WiFi or to a computer via USB cable. I tested it over a USB connection with the drivers installed on a PC running Windows Vista.

Printing Speed

The printer's speed on our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing), was tied with the HERO 5.1, at 3.1 pages per minute (ppm), faster than the Editors’ Choice Kodak ESP C310’s 2.7 ppm. (Surprisingly, both the HERO 3.1 and HERO 5.1 tested somewhat faster than the higher-end models in the HERO line.) The HP Photosmart 5510 e-All-in-One ($100 street, 3.5 stars) tested at 3.7 ppm, while the Brother MFC-J430w left them all in the dust by testing at 4.3 ppm.

Output Quality

Overall, the HERO 3:1’s output quality was very similar to the HERO 5:1, with average text, sub-par graphics, and photos of average (if inconsistent) quality.

Text quality was typical of an inkjet MFP, suitable for schoolwork and general business use but not for desktop publishing, marketing materials, or other output

Graphics quality for the HERO 3.1 was sub-par for an inkjet. Banding (a regular pattern of faint lines of discoloration) was prevalent in some illustrations, particularly ones with solid backgrounds. A couple of illustrations showed blotchiness, with slightly faded areas. Another issue was posterization, abrupt shifts in color where they should have been gradual. Also, thin colored lines did not show up at all, defaulting to gray (which made them barely visible against a black background.

Photo quality was inconsistent, with some prints looking better than what you’d expect from a drugstore and others worse. Overall, colors were rich and well saturated. A monochrome image showed a tint, and in several images detail was lost in bright areas.

Other Issues

The HERO 3:1 lets you create and print 3D images. It includes a utility that will create an anaglyphic 3D color image (the kind that needs glasses with one red lens and one blue lens to see the 3D effect). To print a 3D image, you need two photos of the same scene, and you’ll need to move the camera about three inches horizontally between snapping the two pictures. The utility overlays the images and prints them. To let you see the 3D effect, Kodak provides two pairs of glasses with the printer.

Kodak claims  running costs for the HERO 3:1 of 3.9 cents per monochrome page and 10.7 cents per color page; the cost per color page is particularly low.

The Kodak HERO 3.1 offers decent speed for a $99 printer, and its output quality is average for an inkjet at its price. It’s slightly faster than the Editors’ Choice Kodak ESP C310 but it adds little feature-wise, and the C310 edged it in photo quality. The HERO 3.1 is a good choice for a budget inkjet MFP, providing low price and low running costs, but you should also consider the C310, the extra features of the HERO 5:1, or—if you want an MFP for home-office as well as home use—the Brother MFC-J430w.

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Top 10 Best Touch-Screen Printers

Move over, tablets and smart phones. A growing number of printers sporting touch screens have hit the scene. We give you the top 10 best touch-screen printers on the market today.

Touch screens have become commonplace on smart phones and they're a necessity for tablets; even some desktop all-in-one PCs sport one. Now, touch screens have migrated to printers as well. A touch-based interface is particularly good for multi-function printers (MFPs), whose users may have to quickly switch between tasks.

HP and Lexmark have been at the forefront of the move to bring Web-enabled printers to consumers and businesses. Touch screens are natural interfaces for running Web apps. In part because of this, HP and Lexmark have brought more touch-screen printers to market than other manufacturers.

Both HP and Lexmark have a combination of business- and consumer-oriented Web apps. HP's Web apps, featured in printers like the HP Photosmart eStation (which has a touch panel that doubles as a basic tablet/ereader) and HP Photosmart Plus e-All-in-One, tend to be more consumer-friendly; the screens of these photo-centric printers are also great for previewing photos.

Lexmark's apps tend to be geared more to business, and are featured in small-office machines like the snazzy Lexmark Genesis S816. The Epson WorkForce 840 All-in-One, also a small-office MFP, doesn't have print apps, but it comes equipped a lovely touch screen.

In office multi-function printers (MFPs) like the Lexmark c792de, Lexmark X548dte, HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw, and HP Laserjet Enterprise M4555h MFP, touch screens are used primarily for easy access to the printer's multi-function features (scanning, copying, and faxing). That's also the case with the Dell 2355dn and Brother MFC-9970CDW.

Not every printer needs a touch screen, but including one makes the user experience easier and more pleasant. Touch-screen printers tend to be more expensive than non-touch models, but the screen is added value and for many that is worth the boost in price. More and more printer manufacturers are adding a distinctive, attractive, and user-friendly touch (pun intended) to their products. Web-enabled printers need touch screens to run apps, so as more manufacturers introduce such models, we'll see a boom in printers with screens that respond to the touch of a finger.

Featured in this Roundup

Brother MFC-9970CDW
$700 street

The Brother MFC-9970CDW's output quality is a little disappointing for graphics and photos, but the color laser multifunction printer offers fast speed, high quality text, and lots of features.

Dell 2355dn Multifunction Mono Laser Printer
$599.99 direct

The Dell 2355dn Multifunction Mono Laser Printer delivers acceptable speed, output quality, and paper handling paired with an exceptional wealth of features.

Epson WorkForce 840 All-in-One
$300 street

The Epson WorkForce 840 All-in-One provides a good set of all-in-one functions and superior paper capacity for a small-office MFP, at a decent price.

HP Laserjet Enterprise M4555h MFP
$2,799 direct

With a 120GB built-in hard drive, the HP LaserJet Enterprise M4555h MFP is a capable network mono laser MFP for an office with huge printing demands and equally deep pockets.

HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw
$449 direct

The HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw color MFP is unusually easy to use, thanks largely to its color touch screen control panel.

HP Photosmart eStation
$399 direct

The HP PhotoSmart eStation's 7-inch touch screen is detachable and doubles as a basic tablet and eReader.

HP Photosmart Plus e-All-in-One
$149 direct

The HP Photosmart Plus e-All-in-One is an MFP geared largely to home use and particularly photo printing, at which it excels.

Lexmark c792de
$1,599 direct

The Lexmark C792de laser printer has the paper capacity and speed to handle color printing in a busy workgroup.

Lexmark Genesis S816
$399 list

The Lexmark Genesis S816 offers impressive speed and ample paper handling for a small to medium-size office or workgroup, but lacks paper handling options for heavy-duty printing.

Lexmark X548dte
$1,749 direct

The Lexmark X548dte delivers fast speed, unusually high-quality graphics and photos, acceptable text, and an easy to use front-panel touch screen.

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