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Celia Merzbacher: Fostering collaboration to advance the quantum industry
As the executive director of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium, Merzbacher plays a pivotal role in moving the quantum ecosystem forward.
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SRI addresses the rural healthcare gap with AI innovation
SRI researchers are building an AI-driven system designed to upskill clinicians and transform rural healthcare delivery.
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Cultivating hard tech startups that scale
IEEE’s Hard Tech Venture Summit convened innovators at SRI to refine strategies and build new networks.
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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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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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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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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.
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The SRI research behind today’s surgical robotics
Intuitive’s da Vinci 5 system represents a major leap in robotic-assisted medicine. It all started at SRI, which continues to advance teleoperation technologies.
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A banner year for quantum
SRI-managed QED-C’s annual report on quantum trends captures an industry accelerating rapidly from technical promise toward major global impact.
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SRI launches Center for the Future of Education and Technology
SRI’s Center for the Future of Education and Technology will equip education systems to evolve and meet the needs of all learners.
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An SRI carbon capture experiment launches into space
By synthesizing carbon-absorbing aerogels in microgravity, SRI research will give us a rare glimpse into how these materials could be radically improved.
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Stanford celebrates a world-changing SRI invention
Spotlighting Douglas Engelbart’s invention of the computer mouse, Stanford Magazine revisits a moment when SRI transformed computing forever.
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Why quantum assurance matters
New SRI research seeks to secure the future of quantum innovation by extending software assurance capabilities from classical computers to quantum information systems.
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How AI can improve student data literacy
SRI education and AI experts collaborate to help students thrive in a data-driven world.
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