Sensing and devices
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ImageCalc software
Image processing system makes it possible to manipulate 3D object models overlaid on imagery.
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Alto PC
The Alto personal workstation was created at PARC, which is now part of SRI.
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Spindt cold cathode for displays
Revolutionary cathode led to today’s “instant-on” flat-panel computers and televisions.
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Digital FAX machine
SRI develops the prototype for world’s first digital fax machine.
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Blue light-emitting diode
The world’s first blue light-emitting diode (LED) lays the foundations for Blu-Ray.
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PROSPECTOR computer-based expert system
One of the first computer-based expert systems aids geologists in mineral exploration.
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Air combat training
The first instrumented training system takes flight.
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Over-the-horizon radar
Seeing thousands of miles beyond the horizon for advances in detection, tracking and mapping.
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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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ARPANET
We helped invent ARPANET. You may know it as The Internet.
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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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Laser photocoagulation for ophthalmology
A better way to look at eye surgery.