FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. (FXPAL) is a leading multimedia research laboratory established in 1995 by Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. FXPAL researchers invent information technologies intended to address key issues affecting businesses and society. FXPAL research focuses on two broad categories: * Distributed Collaboration technologies merge real and virtual world operations to support seamless and effective remote collaboration in today's global business community. * Interactive Media technologies improve the ability to use dynamic multimedia documents and advance accessing, visualizing, organizing, and extracting desired information from large multimedia databases.