Hoover will oversee the Xerox global research centres including the
Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC), the Xerox Research Centre Canada and the Xerox Research Centre Europe, as well as Xerox's globally distributed product development and engineering capabilities.
engineering positions at the Xerox
Palo Alto Research Centre and Synopsys Inc.
Before Sun, he was a principal in the consulting firm of Sutherland, Sproull and Associates, an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a research scientist at the Xerox
Palo Alto Research Centre.
Xerox has included in XeLDA its natural language technologies that have been developed by its
Palo Alto Research Centre.