Weiser's objective is to channel the energies of innovation at PARC, managing the research center's mission of inventing the future and connecting it to Xerox. As one of his first assignments, Weiser will play an instrumental role in developing the corporation's strategic plan for leveraging the Internet as an opportunity for business growth and development. It won't be done until everything is on the Web.
Light switches, pagers, copiers, printers, as well as PCs, benefit from Web connections.
As Chief Technologist, Weiser will continue PARC's tradition of radical innovation contributing to Xerox products. Xerox PARC is renowned for its many contributions to today's computing technology. PARC scientists invented the workstation computer, windows computer interface, laser printing, and the local area network. Recently PARC's work in 3-D user interfaces is described by industry analysts as harbingers of the next computer revolution. Weiser headed the Computer Science Laboratory at PARC from 1988 through 1994.