Timeline of SRI International Innovations: 2000s and the Future

THE WORLD IS FACING NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES. The sequencing of the human genome and bioinformatics are revolutionizing medicine. The burst of the "dot-com bubble" and corporate scandals rocked the business landscape. A heightened focus on national security has underscored the need for innovative technologies, while global warming and political tensions highlight the need for alternative energy sources.

SRI clients have sponsored more than $2 billion in R&D at SRI in the past decade alone. To ensure the ongoing creation of compelling customer value, SRI formalized its disciplined approach to innovation with a set of best practices, tools, and processes.

NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY: SRI Senior Technical Adviser Emeritus Dr. Doug Engelbart, inventor of the mouse and other foundations of personal computing, received the nation's highest technology honor in 2000.
				GOLF ECONOMY: For the World Golf Foundation, SRI compiled the first-ever estimate of the overall scope of the U.S. golf industry's goods and services ($62 billion in 2000), providing a framework for monitoring the long-term growth of the industry.
TRACE SPECIES DETECTION: SRI's ultratrace detection of compounds at the parts-per-trillion level and below has applications for hazardous chemicals, explosives, narcotics, and chemical agents.
				NIGHT AIRGLOW OF VENUS: SRI researchers made the first observation of visible light emitted by oxygen atoms in the night-side airglow of Venus, offering new insight into the planet's atmosphere.
CHARTER SCHOOLS: In 2002, SRI education researchers conducted the first national evaluation of the growing U.S. charter schools movement.
				DIAMAGNETIC LEVITATION: SRI's passive suspension and transport system can be used in seismic sensors and frictionless micromotors, and eliminates particulate contaminants in automated clean rooms.
DFIRST™: SRI's Deployable Force-on-Force Instrumented Range System uses GPS satellites, high-speed wireless communications, and digital terrain map displays to train armored combat units during battle exercises.
				JOINT TRAINING EXPERIMENTATION PROGRAM (JTEP): SRI's integration of live, virtual, and constructive training elements on a common digital battlefield is giving the National Guard new dimensions in soldier combat readiness exercises.
BIOCYC AND PATHWAY TOOLS: SRI's growing collection of genomic databases and software tools is being used by biologists to visualize genes within a chromosome, complete biochemical pathways, and the full metabolic maps of organisms.
				ADVANCED MODULAR INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR (AMISR): Launching a new age in atmospheric research, SRI's novel, relocatable radar facility, under construction for the National Science Foundation, studies complex upper atmosphere and space weather events, which can affect satellite and electronic communications.
CENTIBOTS: SRI designed one of the first and largest teams of coordinated, autonomous mobile robots that explore, map, and survey unknown environments — another SRI milestone in robotics.
				HANDHELD SPEECH TRANSLATOR: SRI speech technology inside the VoxTec Phraselator™ handheld language translator enables U.S. soldiers overseas to communicate with local citizens in real time.
AIRBORNE POSITION LOCATION SYSTEM (APLS): The U.S. Army uses ruggedized test equipment from SRI to evaluate tactics and operational procedures for air-dropped cargo pallets and the T-10 troop parachute.
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