HP cuts include hit at Labs
And now to dovetail with our ongoing discussion of shrinking long-term R&D efforts, word from one of the few desktop computing companies to invest in R&D at all that its staff will be reduced by 10 percent. The AP reports (via Technology Review) that: “As part of a massive restructuring that includes 14,500 job cuts companywide, Hewlett-Packard Co. is discontinuing four research projects at HP Labs…About…70 of HP Labs’ 700 employees worldwide will receive layoff notices.”
Among those cut was Alan Kay, “best known for his work in graphical user interfaces while working at Xerox’s research lab in the 1970s.”
