SRI International
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Tech history: the story behind Stanford’s satellite dish hiking trail in Palo Alto
The scoop on the past and present of the famous radio telescope that is still active today
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Fibridge: Embedded fiber-optic sensing for low-cost, high resolution monitoring in bridges and IoT-connected systems
This talk will give an overview of the project, enabling technologies, and summarize key results on vehicle load and structural response features detectable, bridge state estimation algorithm development, low-cost optical readout development, and validation test results.
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Enhancement of a K-3 Formative Assessment
SRI worked with two research partners and a 10-state consortium to enhance and implement a developmentally appropriate K–3 formative assessment to fit within and inform everyday classroom instruction.
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Alternate Assessment Design – Math and Reading
SRI worked with two state consortia to design items for alternate assessments. This work advanced how the learning of students with significant cognitive disabilities is assessed.
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Semantically-Aware Attentive Neural Embeddings for 2D Long-Term Visual Localization
We present an approach that combines appearance and semantic information for 2D image-based localization (2D-VL) across large perceptual changes and time lags.
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Student Experiences in Health Pathways. Findings from an Evaluation of Oakland Health Pathways
This brief presents findings from an evaluation of the Oakland Health Pathways Project (OHPP) which applies Linked Learning, an approach that combines classroom learning with real-world work experiences, to its health pathways.
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Making learning relevant: infusing real-world experiences into the classroom for lasting college, career and life success
SRI International’s nine-year evaluation of the initiative unlocked promising evidence on improved student outcomes, including increased credit accumulation and graduation rates.
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Early education that leads to school readiness: proven lessons for creating a strong start with high-quality preschool environments
Preschool is the building block to lasting education success, but high-need communities often lack high-quality preschool experiences that promote school readiness.
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Building on open educational resources: helping students complete a degree without purchasing a single textbook
Investigating whether replacing traditional materials with freely available and openly licensed resources can increase college affordability and academic success.
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Evaluation of the New Teacher Center (NTC) i3 Scale-up grant: Teacher practice impacts
SRI’s analysis of outcomes for teachers participating in the scale-up of the New Teacher Center’s intensive program for beginning teachers found that NTC induction had a positive impact on teacher classroom practice.
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Automating chemical drug discovery and synthesis
SRI International’s continuous flow SynFini™ Suite produced multiple nucleoside antivirals in a single day. The SynFini Suite consists of three integrated components – SynRoute ™, SynJet™ and AutoSyn™ – that automatically design synthetic routes for molecules of interest, conduct subsequent reaction screening and optimization, and then produce the selected molecules on scales from micrograms to…
