Communication
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Artificial muscle
Artificial Muscle made easy work of heavy lifting.
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High-definition television
We help develop and standardize HDTV technology–and win an Emmy for our contributions.
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CCD broadcast camera
The first commercially available all-solid-state broadcast camera delivers clearer, sharper images than ever before.
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911 emergency call system
We led the design and engineering of emergency call systems throughout the country.
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Deafnet
National telecommunications system raises awareness within the deaf community of email’s potential.
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Internetworking
Today’s internet was born in a 1970’s van.
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Digital FAX machine
SRI develops the prototype for world’s first digital fax machine.
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Scenario planning
Our plan was to make decision-making easier for business and government.
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Domain names and the Network Information Center
From a simple network information hub to the first ever “dot com.”
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ARPANET
We helped invent ARPANET. You may know it as The Internet.
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Acoustic modem
SRI scientists made vast improvements to the acoustically coupled modem, which had been invented elsewhere in the early 1960s.
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Dish radio antenna
We invented satellite slang and spacecraft speak.