Robert W. Taylor (born 1932) was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (1965-69), founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) (1970-83), and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center (1983-96). Bob Taylor was born in Texas, the son of a Methodist minister. Wikipedia
In 1983, Mr. Taylor founded the Systems Research Center of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which he managed until his retirement in 1996. www.nae.edu/NAE/awardscom.nsf/weblinks/LRAO-5WEUYY?OpenDo...
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While still at NASA, Mr. Taylor directed funding to Mr. Engelbart's studies of computer-display technology at SRI that led to his most famous invention, the computer mouse. www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2000/2000_10_11.taylor.html?