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Agilent Technologies’ New Pathway Architect Software to Include SRI International’s BioCyc Pathway Database Collection
December 10, 2012

Agilent Technologies Inc. and SRI have signed a licensing agreement to offer laboratory research customers an integrated package that includes SRI's complete BioCyc Pathway Database Collection.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Biofuels + Bioproducts Drug Discovery Proteomics Synthetic Biology
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Demo Day at Quantico to Show Augmented Reality Technology Advancing Real-World Military Training
July 24, 2012

Augmented reality demo at Quantico to show latest capabilities for military training.

Topics: 3D + Virtual Environments Computer Vision Counter-Terrorism Force Protection Homeland Security + National Defense Training Systems
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DARPA Awards BOLT Program $7.1 Million Contract to SRI-led Team
May 14, 2012

SRI International has been awarded a $7.1 million contract for Phase 1 of a five-year, $41.5 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract under DARPA's Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program.

Topics: Force Protection Intelligence, Surveillance + Reconnaissance Speech, Language, and Audio
Report for U.S. Department of Education on Costs and Benefits of Online Learning Programs
March 20, 2012

Understanding the Implications of Online Learning for Educational Productivity summarizes past research on the cost and outcomes associated with online learning programs in higher education and offers strategies for implementing such programs effectively in K-12 settings.

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New Software Speeds Development of Genome-Scale Models for Drug and Fuel Research
January 24, 2012

A new software tool can substantially decrease time required for researchers to construct genome-scale models of metabolic networks. Metabolic networks are the complete set of metabolic and physical processes that determine physiological and biochemical properties of a cell.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics + Computational Biology Drug Discovery Software Engineering Synthetic Biology
SRI to Host Webcast of Cyberlearning Research Summit
SRI to Host Webcast of Cyberlearning Research Summit
January 18, 2012

The Cyberlearning Research Summit, organized by SRI International and the Lawrence Hall of Science, will feature discussions on the future of learning, and the technology necessary for scalable and lasting advances in STEM education.

Topics: Out-of-School Learning Research on Learning Science, Technology, Engineering + Mathematics Education

SRI In the News

The Best of 2012 AI: A Look Back at The Year’s Top Virtual Assistants, Lurching Giants and Augmented Reality
Silicon Angle  |  January 1, 2013

Siri, Apple's intelligent personal assistant that was born from SRI technology, is one of artificial intelligence’s highlights of 2012.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
The Year in Computing: A Look Back at Predictive Assistants and Lurching Giants
MIT Technology Review  |  December 25, 2012

This article notes that SRI, creator of Siri, also created a similar system capable of working as a bank teller.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
How Did Siri Get Its Name?
Forbes  |  December 21, 2012

Adam Cheyer, co-founder of SRI spin-off Siri, Inc. (acquired by Apple) explains how Siri got its interesting name.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
A Computer That Knows What You're Thinking
CNET  |  December 7, 2012

Imagine a computer that can tell your next move. That's exactly what scientists at SRI have developed. CNET's Sumi Das visits the lab to give you a peek at the technology.

Topics: Cyber Security
Siri for Travel, Desti, Launches iPad App in Public Beta Giving Users Their Own “Smart Travel Guide”
The Next Web  |  November 9, 2012

This article notes that SRI has produced some remarkable technologies over the years. Another one of Siri’s siblings has launched into public beta and hopes to help make travel planning and discovery much smarter.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Siri’s Sister Desti is a Virtual Tour Guide to Answer All Your Travel Queries
VentureBeat  |  November 8, 2012

This article reports that Desti is not just another travel app. It is a virtual tour guide that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to comprehend and respond to specific queries. The startup launched its open beta today with technology developed out of SRI.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Speech, Language, and Audio
Desti, a Virtual Personal Assistant for Travel, Launches on iPad
All Things D  |  November 8, 2012

SRI spin-off Desti has launched a free mobile app that wants to combine natural language search with artificial intelligence technology to make the whole thing easier. All Things D's Lauren Graham takes a look.

SRI Spinout Desti Builds a Siri-like Personal Travel Assistant
GigaOm  |  November 8, 2012

This article reports that Apple’s Siri works pretty well as a personal assistant but it’s not equipped to be your virtual travel guide. But Desti which, like Siri, is a spin out from SRI, has launched in public beta and is looking to take on that job for consumers.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Plan Your Next Trip With Desti, A Conversational iPad App Spun Out From Siri-Creator SRI
TechCrunch  |  November 8, 2012

This article reports that there’s no shortage of travel guides and services on the web, but in some ways, that can be a curse—travel-planning can become a long process of browsing site after site and reading review after review. That’s where a startup called Desti comes in.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Killing the Computer to Save It: The New York Times' Profile of Peter Neumann
The New York Times  |  October 29, 2012

John Markoff profiles venerable SRI computer scientist Peter Neumann, including his philosophy of design that has remained with him for six decades and that has been his governing principle of computing and computer security.

Topics: Cyber Security

Events

United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Technology Day
Reston, VA  |  June 7, 2012

SRI will demonstrate software and systems for the processing and exploitation of video, imagery, wide-area airborne surveillance, and LIDAR.

Topics: Computer Vision Force Protection Intelligence, Surveillance + Reconnaissance
AIC Seminar with Lenore Zuck: Rambling on Ethics in Computer Science
SRI Menlo Park (Room: EJ228)  |  July 9, 2012

Lenore Zuck will give some of the "philosophical” reasons for incorporating ethical thinking when developing technology and in computer science, critique the existing codes of ethics, and suggest challenges that should be overcome to reach the idealistic goal of ethical data sharing.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
AIC Seminar with Margaret-Anne Storey: Collaborative Visualization of Ontologies and Ontology Mappings
SRI Menlo Park (Room: EJ228)  |  July 11, 2012

Ontologies provide powerful and concise conceptualizations of domain knowledge that must be machine-processable but also human-readable to improve ease of use and also to ease communication across stakeholders.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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AIC Seminar: Algebraic Approaches for Reasoning in Very Noisy Multi-Target Tracking Problems
SRI Menlo Park (Room: EJ228)  |  August 9, 2012

Probabilistic reasoning and learning with permutation data arises as a fundamental problem in myriad applications. Huang will discuss an algebraic approach, and its implications for multi-target tracking.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence
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Innovating the Future: SRI's Curt Carlson and Bill Mark in Conversation with John Markoff of The New York Times
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA  |  April 17, 2013

Hear what researchers are imagining and turning into reality: from virtual personal assistants capable of human-like dialogue, to next-generation textbooks that use artificial intelligence, and human-machine interfaces that anticipate your moves.

Podcasts

Mike Piacentino
Video Processing on UAVs: More Situational Awareness for Warfighters
December 18, 2012

In this podcast, Michael Piacentino, technical director of the Vision Technologies business unit in SRI International’s Information and Computing Sciences Division, discusses the value of airborne video processing on UAV’s and the technology solutions in development at SRI.

Topics: Intelligence, Surveillance + Reconnaissance Sensors
Teddy Kumar
Augmented Reality: Mixing the Virtual with the Real for Improved Training
September 28, 2012

In this podcast, SRI's Teddy Kumar, Ph.D., discusses how augmented reality is emerging into the marketplace, and why there is so much interest in using it on smartphones and emerging eyewear.

Topics: 3D + Virtual Environments Computer Vision Force Protection
Vinay K. Chaudri
Can Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Reasoning Improve Textbooks?
June 12, 2012

Digital textbooks can provide a more engaging learning experience, especially for students who may otherwise be left behind.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies Out-of-School Learning

Publications

Speaker Recognition with Region-constrained MLLR Transforms
IEEE  |  March, 2012

In this paper we ask if another major class of speaker recognition models, those based on MLLR speaker adaptation transforms, can also benefit from region-constrained feature extraction.

Topics: Speech, Language, and Audio

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