Getting Down To Business®

PROGRAM TOPIC “Always Moving” the tag line for Xerox Corporation is the true story of this iconic company, with 119,000 employees, working in 160 countries, Xerox has been on the leading edge of change.  It’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) literally given the world the Ethernet, laser printing and Graphical User Interface.  Alaska Enterprise Solutions (AES) a Xerox agency is the new face of Xerox in Alaska.  Michael Ferris founded AES and tells Dave his story.  For more visit www.Aesalaska.com. EMPIRE OF WEALTH Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) Railroads was the computer industry of the 1800’s.  Starting in 1830 the B&O connected Chesapeake Bay and the Ohio River competing with leading U.S. seaports and Erie Canal.  In its inception railroads were dirty and dangerous forms of travel and shipping.  Cornelius Vanderbilt, a future railroad magnate, was nearly killed in a rail accident, in 1833.  From its humble beginnings railroads and the telegraph connected the vast territory of the United States.