SRI International's 60th Anniversary In 2006, SRI International celebrated 60 years of R&D innovation for its government, business, and foundation clients. Since its founding, SRI has been committed to discovery and to the application of science and technology for knowledge, commerce, prosperity, and peace. Read an anniversary message from SRI President and CEO, Dr. Curtis Carlson. View photos and videos from our 60th anniversary celebration at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on November 6, 2006. Learn more about us... Events surrounding our founding as the Stanford Research Institute go back as far as the 1920s. Learn about these and other key events in our history. SRI innovations have created new industries, billions of dollars in market value, and lasting benefits to society. They touch our lives every day when we use the Internet, talk on a mobile phone, write a check, watch a movie, or mail a letter. SRI and its staff members contribute to the community through a variety of sponsorships and volunteer activities. Since 1946, about 25,000 people around the world have worked for the Institute. Many SRI staff members are recognized leaders in their fields. Their contributions are often acknowledged by awards and honors. Books about SRI SRI President and CEO Dr. Curt Carlson and William W. Wilmot describe SRI's unique, disciplined approach to creating value in Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want, published in August 2006 by Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House. In 2005, Don Nielson, who spent nearly 40 years at SRI in a variety of research and management roles, authored A Heritage of Innovation: SRI’s First Half Century. The book concentrates on 50 of the more than 50,000 projects that the institute has completed. Details of SRI's founding years and "take-off days" are reported in a two-volume set of books by Dr. Weldon "Hoot" Gibson, one of SRI's earliest management team members.
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