We help develop and standardize HDTV technology–and win an Emmy for our contributions.
History of innovation
What if we had a hand in 10 innovations you’ve held in your hands?
We’ve spearheaded groundbreaking innovations from talented scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs.
Take a minute to explore our rich timeline of innovation that’s touched the lives of, well, pretty much everyone.
Explore by category or decade
Radar that penetrates ground and foliage
Innovative radar helps find unexploded ordnance and other concealed items.
Professional Golfers’ Association education
Training program establishes standards for 30,000+ golf pros.
Virtual advertising insertion
Those in-game ads on TV that made you wonder, “How’d they do that?” We did that.
Deafnet
National telecommunications system raises awareness within the deaf community of email’s potential.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
We helped establish Monterey Bay Aquarium, opening the doors for more than 2 million visitors each year.
Cash management accounts
Access to all your money, in all its iterations, in one place.
Internetworking
Today’s internet was born in a 1970’s van.
Banking guidelines for SWIFT
The cornerstone of international banking transactions involving 200 countries and trillions of dollars a year.
Formal software methods
We applied hard methods to software development.
Over-the-horizon radar
Seeing thousands of miles beyond the horizon for advances in detection, tracking and mapping.
Environmental causes of lung disease
Foundational study helps establish air quality standards.
Domain names and the Network Information Center
From a simple network information hub to the first ever “dot com.”
ARPANET
We helped invent ARPANET. You may know it as The Internet.
Acoustic modem
SRI scientists made vast improvements to the acoustically coupled modem, which had been invented elsewhere in the early 1960s.
