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Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time


y Masinter and Frank Halasz on Xerox PARC, Interlisp, NoteCards, and why “residential programming” still matters On the March 10, 2025 episode ofDo You Speak Tech?, I sat down with two names woven into the early fabric of modern computing:Larry MasinterandFrank Halasz. Their careers span the era when Xerox PARC wasn’t just a research lab … it was a kind of technological weather system, generating ideas that would later condense into today’s interfaces, networks, and web culture.

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