Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time (opens in new tab)

## Larry Masinter and Frank Halasz on Xerox PARC, Interlisp, NoteCards, and why “residential programming” still matters On the March 10, 2025 episode of*Do You Speak Tech?*, I sat down with two names woven into the early fabric of modern computing:**Larry Masinter**and**Frank Halasz**\. Their careers span the era when Xerox PARC wasn’t just a research lab … it was a kind of technological weather system, generating ideas that would later condense into today’s interfaces, networks, and web cul...