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The Rise and Fall of Xerox, the Rochester Lab That Built the Future as Silicon Valley Took It

A compelling look at Xerox PARC, the legendary Rochester-linked research lab that helped invent the modern computing world—from the graphical user interface to the mouse—only to watch Silicon Valley transform its ideas into billion-dollar empires.

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A compelling look at Xerox PARC, the legendary Rochester-linked research lab that helped invent the modern computing world—from the graphical user interface to the mouse—only to watch Silicon Valley transform its ideas into billion-dollar empires.

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