History of innovation
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Environmental causes of lung disease
Foundational study helps establish air quality standards.
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Laser printing
PARC, which is now part of SRI, modulated a laser to create a bit-mapped electronic image on a xerographic copier drum.
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Scenario planning
Our plan was to make decision-making easier for business and government.
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Domain names and the Network Information Center
From a simple network information hub to the first ever “dot com.”
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ARPANET
We helped invent ARPANET. You may know it as The Internet.
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Head Start Program
Assessment of federal efforts to reduce poverty leads to groundbreaking research methodology.
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The computer mouse and interactive computing
Your Mouse. Our “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System.” Thankfully Mouse won out.
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Acoustic modem
SRI scientists made vast improvements to the acoustically coupled modem, which had been invented elsewhere in the early 1960s.
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Laser photocoagulation for ophthalmology
A better way to look at eye surgery.
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Shakey the Robot
The first mobile robot that could perceive, plan, and execute assigned tasks.
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Malaria treatment: Halofantrine
Treatment for drug-resistant malaria saves countless lives.
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Eyetracker
Follow what people are looking at to see solutions clearer.