Found at “The History of Xerox” on 2026-02-22T12:20:30+01:00.

PARC began operation on the 1st of July in 1970. Goldman then chose George Pake to be PARC’s first director, and he split PARC into three units: the Systems Science Laboratory (SSL) under Bill Gunning, the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL), and the General Science Laboratory (GSL) under Pake himself. Pake, in turn, chose Robert Taylor, former deputy director of ARPA’s information processing techniques office who’d shepherded the creation of ARPANET, to run the CSL until someone else could be found.