High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert William Taylor (born 1932), known as Bob Taylor, is an Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies. He was director of ARPA`s Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969, founder and later manager of Xerox PARC`s Computer Science Laboratory from 1970 through 1983, and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation`s Systems Research Center until 1996.