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Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is famous for innumerable IT inventions, including the first GUI. We recently caught up with Mark Weiser, chief technologist at PARC, to see what's cooking at the lab and how the new technologies he's working on might find their way into the business world. Weiser's catch phrases for the future include "ubiquitous computing" and "smart matter".