SRI International
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Bringing surgical tools inside the MRI
Drawing on SRI’s unique innovation ecosystem, the startup Medical Devices Corner is seeking to improve cancer surgery by advancing MRI-safe teleoperation.
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Making Young Students’ Scientific Thinking Visible: Five Design Features That Support Life Science Learning
SRI researchers Arif Rachmatullah, Nonye Alozie, Hui Yang, and Marta Mielicki share evidence-backed assessment strategies to support young students’ science development. Life science concepts – like how plants and animals survive, how parents help their young, and how offspring resemble their families – are important for developing early scientific literacy. For this reason, the Next…
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PARC Forum: How to AI
The Wall Street Journal tech columnist Christopher Mims and SRI Education’s Susan Patrick discuss how AI can strengthen human agency.
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Meet the startups reinventing the defense innovation playbook
The SRI-hosted Deep Tech Security Accelerator demonstrates what can happen when battle-tested innovation meets the right ecosystem.
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The greatest U.S. breakthroughs (thanks to SRI)
The Wall Street Journal asked readers to rank the U.S. inventions that most impacted society. SRI played a foundational role in four of the top 15.
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Evaluation of the College, Career, and Community Writers Program
Over nearly a decade, SRI evaluated the College, Career, and Community Writers Program, an initiative from the National Writing Project designed to strengthen source-based argument writing instruction in grades 4–10.
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Developing and Validating a Practitioner Toolkit to Scale and Sustain Collaborative Data Inquiry
This is the first impact study of Data Wise, which supports educators in using collaborative data inquiry to drive continuous improvement of teaching and learning.
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Designing better human-machine teams
SRI is discovering how AI can organize humans and machines into complex, collaborative, high-functioning units.
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Bridging the Divide: Connecting Word Recognition and Language Comprehension in Early Literacy
This brief focuses on how reading foundational skills instruction in K–2 classrooms can more intentionally connect word recognition and language comprehension through two particular bridging processes – reading fluency and vocabulary development.
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Earth Day at SRI: How science can sustain a changing planet
From foundational smog research to new work on carbon capture, SRI has continuously turned science into environmental impact.
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Where is AI taking us?
As the co-chair of Stanford’s AI Index Steering Committee, SRI’s Ray Perrault shapes a monumental annual effort to document the global AI ecosystem.
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Nicole Heidel: Charting the future of photonic chips and quantum hardware
As the director of SRI’s Applied Sciences Laboratory, Heidel leads a team that turns deep science into real-world solutions.