Starkweather, Gary oral history
Physicist Gary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer, speaks about his early work at Xerox and the management challenges he faced in convincing Xerox to pursue this technology. He begins by discussing his childhood and early formative experiences, then progresses to his advanced study of optics at the University of Rochester, his work at Bausch and Lomb then Xerox, and finally Apple and Microsoft. The laser printer program that Starkweather pursued provides a lesson in how monopolies miss opportunities by their focus on protecting existing products and techniques at the expense of technologies they consider disruptive.
Item Details
- Date
- 2010-08-23 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102702465
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Lauren Nelson (Editor)
Gary Starkweather (Interviewee)
Dag Spicer (Editor)
Gardner Hendrie (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
Oral History - Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 52 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/FL/DeBary
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X5848.2010
- Subject
- Xerox, Apple Computer, Inc., Laser Printer, Canon, Kodak, PostScript, Xerox PARC, Stanford University
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection