X-Nico

6 unusual facts about SRI International


Bootstrapping

His SRI team that developed the NLS hypertext system applied this strategy by using the tool they had developed to improve the tool.

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

EIGRP is a distance vector routing protocol that uses the diffusing update algorithm (DUAL) (based on work from SRI International) to improve the efficiency of the protocol and to help prevent calculation errors when attempting to determine the best path to a remote network.

Eschenmoser fragmentation

In the same year, i.e. 1967, Masato Tanabe et al. of SRI International published an article detailing on the reaction, and thus, some also refer to it as the Eschenmoser–Tanabe fragmentation.

Gerry Connolly

From 1989 through 1997 he was Vice President of the Washington Office of SRI International.

Thomas H. Morrin

Thomas H. Morrin was an engineer and the director of engineering at SRI International from 1948 to 1963.

Weldon B. Gibson

Weldon Bailey "Hoot" Gibson (April 23, 1917 - May 6, 2001) was an economist and a longtime executive at SRI International (previously the Stanford Research Institute), where he worked full-time from 1947 until 1988, and part-time as Senior Director Emeritus until his death.


Desti

Desti is a travel guide app and a spin-off of SRI International that uses SRI's CALO artificial intelligence technology (the basis for Apple's Siri) to help users plan trips.

E. Finley Carter

Emmett Finley Carter (July 1, 1901 - February 18, 1979) was an electrical engineer that worked at several companies; most notably, he was in upper management of Sylvania Electric Products and was the director, and later president, of SRI International from 1956 to 1963.

James Hillier

(Note: RCA Laboratories, located in Princeton, NJ, became independent of RCA as a result of the corporate take-over by General Electric in 1986 and became Sarnoff Corporation, a subsidiary of SRI International through 2011, when it was absorbed by SRI.) Hillier spent many years refining the electron microscope and marketing it to research laboratories and universities, receiving a total of 41 patents for devices and processes.

John G. Linvill

In 1970 he, Jim Bliss, and others from Stanford and SRI co-founded Telesensory Systems (TSI) to manufacture and distribute the Optacon.

Mark A. Clifton

Mark A. Clifton is the vice president for products and services at SRI International, and is also the general manager (formerly CEO and president) of SRI's Sarnoff Corporation.

Since February 2008, Clifton has been SRI International's vice president of products and services; and from October 2009 until its absorption into SRI in January 2011, Clifton was the CEO and president of SRI's Sarnoff Corporation.

Michael Kudlick

Michael Douglas Kudlick (December 8, 1934 - February 16, 2008) was a computer scientist and professor of computer science, most known for developing the file transfer and mail protocols for ARPANET while working for the Augmentation Research Center at SRI International, and later as a noted professor and academic administrator at the University of San Francisco.

Python Robotics

The principal investigators on the NSF grant were Douglas Blank of Bryn Mawr College, Kurt Konolige of SRI International, Deepak Kumar (computer scientist) of Bryn Mawr College, Lisa Meeden of Swarthmore College, and Holly Yanco of University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Robert Leahy Fair

Following retirement from the military, Fair worked for SRI International, formerly Stanford Research Institute, before transitioning to Lockheed Corporation.

TAS-108

TAS-108, also known as SR16234, is a drug discovered by Masato Tanabe and under development by SRI International and Taiho Pharmaceutical.


see also

CALO

The available technologies were developed by research teams at SRI International, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Rochester, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Oregon State University, the University of Southern California, and Stanford University.

Charles Tart

Tart was the holder of the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and has served as a Visiting Professor in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as an Instructor in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Virginia, and a consultant on government funded parapsychological research at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International).

Donn B. Parker

He is a grantee of the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Justice, and is the founder in 1986 (while at SRI International) of the International Information Integrity Institute (I-4) an ongoing confidential service to large, international corporations and governments now owned and operated by KPMG-UK.

Raymond Perrault

C. Raymond Perrault, director of the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International