SRI International Digest #7, Spring 2003 In This Issue: HOMELAND SECURITY NEWS NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIERS SHARPEN WARFIGHTING SKILLS: The California National Guard successfully completed the first live demonstration of its Joint Training Experimentation Program (JTEP) on May 3. The federally funded statewide combat readiness training system, of which SRI is prime contractor and systems integrator, creates a realistic battlefield environment through the integration of live battle exercises with computer-based simulators. In the training exercise, performed by soldiers at two installations approximately 50 miles apart, a computer-generated armored unit engaged real vehicles and soldiers assembled for a weekend training exercise. The demonstration included SRI's Deployable Force-on-Force Instrumented Range System (DFIRST) for armored ground combat maneuver and gunnery training. Learn more about the successful JTEP demonstration at http://www.sri.com/news/releases/05-09-03.html. U.S. ARMY TEAM TO DEFINE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMBAT TRAINING: SRI is part of the OneTESS (One Tactical Engagement Simulation System) team, led by AT&T Government Solutions, which was recently awarded a 13-month, $2 million concept and technology development contract by the U.S. Army to help define emerging technologies and communications systems to be used for future combat simulation and live training. SRI's role includes technology assessment and system engineering, applying its expertise in mobile ad hoc networking; live, constructive and simulated training integration; geometric pairing; advanced GPS; command and control systems; and communications technology and architectures. Read more at http://www.att.com/news/item/0,1847,11487,00.html. BIOSCIENCES NEWS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS AWARDS, EVENTS, SRI IN THE NEWS OPTICAL RESEARCHER WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD: Weilin Pan, Ph.D., a research engineer with SRI's Center for Geospace Studies, was recently awarded the Optical Society of America’s prestigious Allen Prize. The award recognizes the achievements of graduate students that are making significant contributions to atmospheric remote sensing using electro-optical instrumentation. Dr. Pan is being recognized specifically for her work on measurements of atmospheric temperatures above the North and South Poles using a novel lidar system. She will formally receive the award during the Society's annual meeting in October. STANFORD PROFESSOR APPOINTED TO SRI BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Charles A. Holloway has joined SRI's Board of Directors. A widely recognized expert in entrepreneurship, manufacturing strategy and technology management, Mr. Holloway is currently Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Management at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Read the press release at http://www.sri.com/news/releases/04-23-03.html. KEY CONTRIBUTOR TO ULTRASOUND AND ROBOTIC SURGERY WINS TOP AWARD: Phil Green will receive SRI's highest award, the Gibson Achievement Award, on June 11th. Over his 25-year SRI career, Green made several important contributions to the medical community, including several patented technologies in ultrasound and robotic surgery that are in use around the world. Read more about the award at http://www.sri.com/about/awards/gibson.html. MEET LING JONG, SRI MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY RESEARCHER: Ling Jong, Ph.D., co-discovered the novel cancer chemopreventive treatment recently accepted by the National Cancer Institute for further development as a cancer chemopreventative (see BIOSCIENCES news, above). For her work in this drug class, Dr. Jong was awarded a California Breast Cancer Research Program award in Fall 2002. Learn more about Dr. Jong at http://www.sri.com/about/people/jong.html. BIOSCIENCES EVENTS: SRI's Biosciences team will
have a booth at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) annual meeting,
June 22-25, 2003 in Washington, D.C. and at the American Association for
Cancer Research's annual meeting, July 11-14, 2003 in Washington, D.C.
Read about more Biosciences events at http://www.sri.com/biosciences/events.html. NANOSIG EVENT AT SRI: The June 19th meeting of nanoSIG, a Northern California-based organization focused on the commercial development of nanotechnology, will be hosted by SRI. For more information call SRI's Yigal Blum at 650-859-4367. USA TODAY, May 28, 2003 "Bugs, weeds, houseplants could join the war on terror" includes a description of the Phraselator, a handheld translation device based on SRI speech recognition technology and recently deployed in the Iraq war. THE SCIENTIST, April 21, 2003 "Metabolomics: Small-Molecule 'Omics" features a discussion about HumanCyc with Peter Karp, director of SRI's bioinformatics research group. HumanCyc, released on May 27, is a first-of-its-kind database devoted to the analysis of human metabolic pathways. See the article at http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2003/apr/lcprofile_030421.html. ABOUT SRI INTERNATIONAL CONTACT US The SRI Digest welcomes your feedback. Please send suggestions or comments to newsletter@sri.com
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