Xerox Gives Peek Inside Research Lab

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Xerox Corp. doesn't want to simply leave its settled financial issues with the Securities Exchange Commission in the past. It wants to leave them in the dust.

To do it, the Stamford, Conn., copier and printer giant, which has its roots in this Western New York city, is growing increasingly vocal about the positive and tangible financial advances it has made over the course of the last two years; advances such as a dramatically reduced cost structure, sustained profitability, and innovative new projects like the "incorporation" of its famed Palo Alto Research Center in California.

It's doing something else, also: Old fashioned chest-thumping about its technological prowess. (Earlier this week the company announced it was awarded its 15,000th patent.)

At an event billed as "Inside Innovation at Xerox" the company, long-known for its secret projects and which gave the world such inventions as the laser printer and the graphical user interface, opened the doors to its Wilson Center for Research and Technology facility here Thursday to give the public a peek at a wide range of technologies under development and products-in-waiting.

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