The RP’s BREAKING News: The Politics of Tech

By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 9:15 AM ET

Jacob E. Goldman has passed away at the age of 90. Goldman, a physicist, did so much during his life for the world of technology. His most prominent achievement was the founding of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center which went on to invent the personal computer. Goldman was a lifelong Democrat and one of Xerox’s first high-ranking Jewish executives. [NY Times]