History of SRI International, 1960s


				1961: Construction begins on The Dish, the third largest movable radio telescope of its time, located on land leased from Stanford University.
1961: SRI opens an office in Tokyo, Japan.
				1962: Thomas Poulter heads SRI's new biological Sonar Laboratory to study the use of sonar on sea lions.
SRI logo circa 1962
				1963: SRI demonstrates the optical disk for black-and-white video, which operates at 24 frames per second.
1963: Karl A. Folkers is appointed SRI president.
				1966: SRI's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Center is founded. Its pioneering researchers begin work on "Shakey", the first mobile robot able to reason about its surroundings.
1966: SRI's research includes the development of a three-dimensional eye tracking system for the U.S. Air Force, now used in eye research worldwide.
				1968: Douglas Engelbart and his SRI team give the first demonstration ever of personal computing at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco.
1968: Charles A. Anderson becomes SRI's president.
				1969: SRI receives the first login on the ARPANET, the world's first computer network with flexible routing, and the predecessor to today's Internet.

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