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- Many notable computer scientists and others have been associated with the Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (PARC), formerly Xerox PARC. They include:
* Nina Amenta (at PARC 1996–1997), researcher in computational geometry and computer graphics
* Anne Balsamo (at PARC 1999–2002), media studies scholar of connections between art, culture, gender, and technology
* Patrick Baudisch (at PARC 2000–2001), in human–computer interaction
* Daniel G. Bobrow (at PARC 1972–2017), artificial intelligence researcher
* Susanne Bødker (at PARC 1982–1983), researcher in human–computer interaction
* David Boggs (at PARC 1972–1982), computer network pioneer, coinventor of Ethernet
* Anita Borg (at PARC 1997–2003), computer systems researcher, advocate for women in computing
* John Seely Brown (at PARC 1978–2000), researcher in organizational studies, chief scientist of Xerox
* Bill Buxton (at PARC 1989–1994), pioneer in human–computer interaction
* Stuart Card (at PARC 1974-2010), applied human factors in human–computer interaction
* Robert Carr (at PARC in late 1970s), CAD and office software designer
* Ed Chi (at PARC 1997–2011), researcher in information visualization and the usability of web sites
* Elizabeth F. Churchill (at PARC 2004–2006), specialist in human-computer interaction and social computing
* Lynn Conway (at PARC 1973–1982), VLSI design pioneer and transgender activist
* Franklin C. Crow (at PARC circa 1982–1990), computer graphics expert who did early research in antialiasing
* Pavel Curtis (at PARC 1983–1996), pioneer in text-based online virtual reality systems
* Doug Cutting (at PARC 1990-1994), creator of Nutch, Lucene, and Hadoop
* Steve Deering (at PARC circa 1990–1996), internet engineer, lead designer of IPv6
* L Peter Deutsch (at PARC 1971–1986), implementor of LISP 1.5, Smalltalk, and Ghostscript
* David DiFrancesco (at PARC 1972–1974), worked with Richard Shoup on PAINT, cofounded Pixar
* Paul Dourish (at PARC mid-1990s), researcher at the intersection of computer science and social science
* W. Keith Edwards (at PARC 1996–2004), researcher in human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
* Jerome I. Elkind (at PARC 1971–1978), head of the Computer Science Laboratory at PARC
* Clarence Ellis (at PARC 1976–1984), first African American CS PhD, pioneered computer-supported cooperative work
* David Em (at PARC 1975), computer artist, first fine artist to create a computer model of a 3d character
* Bill English (at PARC 1971–1989), co-invented computer mouse
* David Eppstein (at PARC 1989–1990), researcher in computational geometry and graph algorithms
* John Ellenby (at PARC 1975–1978), Led AltoII development, 1979 founded GRID Systems
* Matthew K. Franklin (at PARC 1998–2000), developed pairing-based elliptic-curve cryptography
* Gaetano Borriello (at PARC 1980–1987), developed Open Data Kit
* Richard Fikes (at PARC 1976-1983), leader in representation and use of knowledge in computer systems, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
* Sean R. Garner (at PARC circa 2009– ), researcher in photovoltaics and sustainable engineering
* Charles Geschke (at PARC 1972–1980), invented page description languages, cofounded Adobe
* Adele Goldberg (at PARC 1973–1986), codesigned Smalltalk, president of ACM
* Jack Goldman (at PARC 1970–), Xerox chief scientist 1968–1982, founded PARC in 1970
* Bill Gosper (at PARC 1977–1981), founded the hacker community, pioneered symbolic computation
* Rich Gossweiler (at PARC 1997–2000), software engineer, expert in interaction design
* Rebecca Grinter (at PARC 2000–2004), researcher in human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work
* Neil Gunther (at PARC 1982–1990), developed open-source performance modeling software
* Jürg Gutknecht (at PARC 1984–1985), programming language researcher, designer, with Niklaus Wirth
* Marti Hearst (at PARC 1994–1997), expert in computational linguistics and search engine user interfaces
* Jeffrey Heer (at PARC 2001-2005), expert in information visualization and interactive data analysis
* Bruce Horn (at PARC 1973–1981), member of original Apple Macintosh design team
* Bernardo Huberman (at PARC circa 1982–2000), applied chaos theory to web dynamics
* Dan Ingalls (at PARC circa 1972–1984), implemented Smalltalk virtual machine, invented bit blit
* Van Jacobson (at PARC 2006– ), developed internet congestion control protocols and diagnostics
* Natalie Jeremijenko (at PARC 1995), installation artist
* Ted Kaehler (at PARC 1972–1985), developed key systems for original Smalltalk, later Apple HyperCard, Squeak
* Ronald Kaplan (at PARC 1974–2006), expert in natural language processing, helped develop Interlisp
* Jussi Karlgren (at PARC 1991-1992), known for work on stylistics, evaluation of search technology, and statistical semantics
* Lauri Karttunen (at PARC 1987–2011), developed finite state morphology in computational linguistics
* Alan Kay (at PARC 1971–1981), pioneered object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces
* Martin Kay (at PARC 1974– ), expert on machine translation and computational linguistics
* Gregor Kiczales (at PARC 1984–2002), invented aspect-oriented programming
* Ralph Kimball (at PARC 1972–1982), designed first commercial workstation with mice, icons, and windows
* Andras Kornai (at PARC 1988-1991), mathematical linguist
* Butler Lampson (at PARC 1971–1983), won Turing Award for his development of networked personal computers
* David M. Levy (at PARC 1984–1999), researcher on information overload
* Cristina Lopes (at PARC 1995–2002), researcher in aspect-oriented programming and ubiquitous computing
* Richard Francis Lyon (at PARC 1977–1981), built the first optical mouse
* Jock D. Mackinlay (at PARC 1986–2004) researcher in information visualization
* Cathy Marshall (at PARC circa 1989–2000), researcher on hypertext and personal archiving
* Edward M. McCreight (at PARC 1971–1989) co-invented B-trees
* Scott A. McGregor (at PARC 1978–1983) worked on Xerox Star, Viewers for Cedar and then Windows 1.0 at Microsoft
* Sheila McIlraith (at PARC 1997–1998), researcher in artificial intelligence and the semantic web
* Ralph Merkle (at PARC 1988–1999), invented public key cryptography and cryptographic hashing
* Diana Merry (at PARC circa 1971–1986), helped develop Smalltalk, co-invented bit blit
* Robert Metcalfe (at PARC 1972–1979), co-invented Ethernet, formulated Metcalfe's Law
* James G. Mitchell (at PARC 1971–1984), developed WATFOR compiler, Mesa (programming language), Spring (operating system), ARM RISC chip
* Louis Monier (at PARC 1983–1989), founded AltaVista search engine
* Thomas P. Moran (at PARC 1974–2001), founded journal Human-Computer Interaction
* James H. Morris (at PARC 1974–1982), co-invented KMP string matching algorithm and lazy evaluation
* Elizabeth Mynatt (at PARC 1995–1998), studied digital family portraits and ubiquitous computing
* Greg Nelson (at PARC 1980–1981), satisfiability modulo theories, extended static checking, program verification, Modula-3, theorem prover
* Martin Newell (at PARC 1979–1981), graphics expert who created the Utah teapot
* William Newman (at PARC 1973–1979), Graphics and HCI researcher, developed drawing and page description software
* Geoffrey Nunberg (at PARC 1987–2001), linguist known for his work on lexical semantics
* Severo Ornstein (at PARC 1976–1983), founding head of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
* Valeria de Paiva (at PARC 2000–2008), uses logic and category theory to model natural language
* George Pake (at PARC 1970–1986), pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance, founding director of PARC
* Jan O. Pedersen (at PARC circa 1990-1996), researcher in search system technology and algorithms
* Peter Pirolli (at PARC 1991– ), developed information foraging theory
* Calvin Quate (at PARC 1983–1994), invented the atomic force microscope
* Ashwin Ram (at PARC circa 2011– ), researcher on artificial intelligence for health applications
* Prasad Ram (at PARC circa 1998–2000), expert on digital rights management and web search
* Trygve Reenskaug (at PARC 1978–1979), formulated model–view–controller user interface design
* George G. Robertson (at PARC circa 1988–1995), information visualization expert
* Daniel M. Russell (at PARC 1982–1993), AI and UI research; later at Apple, then at Google, where he calls himself a search anthropologist
* Eric Schmidt (at PARC 1982–1983), CEO of Google and chairman of Alphabet
* Ronald V. Schmidt (at PARC 1980–1985), computer network engineer who founded SynOptics
* Michael Schroeder (at PARC circa 1977–1985), co-invented Needham–Schroeder protocol for encrypted networking
* Bertrand Serlet (at PARC 1985–1989), led the Mac OS X team
* Scott Shenker (at PARC 1984–1998), leader in software-defined networking
* John Shoch (at PARC 1971–1980), developed an important predecessor of TCP/IP networking
* Richard Shoup (at PARC 1971–1978), invented SUPERPAINT and the first 8 bit Frame Buffer (picture memory), 1979 cofounded Aurora
* Charles Simonyi (at PARC 1972-1981), led the creation of Microsoft Office
* Alvy Ray Smith (at PARC 1974), cofounded Pixar
* Brian Cantwell Smith (at PARC 1982–1996), invented introspective programming and researches computational metaphors
* David Canfield Smith (at PARC 1975), invented interface icons, programming by demonstration, worked on graphical user interface, Xerox Star
* Robert Spinrad (at PARC 1978–1982), designed vacuum tube computers, directed PARC
* Bob Sproull (at PARC 1973–1977), designed early head-mounted display, wrote widely used computer graphics textbook
* Jessica Staddon (at PARC 2001–2010), information privacy researcher
* Gary Starkweather (at PARC 1970–1988), invented laser printers and color management
* Maureen C. Stone (at PARC circa 1980–1998), expert in color modeling
* Lucy Suchman (at PARC 1980–2000), researcher on human factors, cybercultural anthropology, and feminist theory
* Bert Sutherland (at PARC 1975–1981), brought social scientists to PARC
* Robert Taylor (at PARC 1970–1983), managed early ARPAnet development, founded DEC Systems Research Center
* Warren Teitelman (at PARC 1972–1984), designed Interlisp
* Shang-Hua Teng (at PARC 1991–1992), invented smoothed analysis of algorithms and near-linear-time Laplacian solvers
* Larry Tesler (at PARC 1973–1980), developed Object Pascal and Apple Newton
* Chuck Thacker (at PARC 1971–1983), chief designer of Alto, co-invented Ethernet
* David Thornburg (at PARC 1971-1981), invented graphics touch tablet, cofounded Koala Technologies
* John Warnock (at PARC 1978–1982), cofounded Adobe
* Mark Weiser (at PARC 1987–1999), invented ubiquitous computing
* Niklaus Wirth (at PARC 1976–1977 and 1984–1985), designed Pascal and other programming languages
* Frances Yao (at PARC 1979–1999), researcher in computational geometry and combinatorial algorithms
* Annie Zaenen (at PARC 2001–2011), researcher on linguistic encoding of temporal and spatial information
* Lixia Zhang (at PARC 1989–1996), computer networking pioneer (en)
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