1960s
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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.
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CMOS integrated circuit
Vital technology still found in most of the world’s electronic circuitry.
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Handwriting recognition, signature verification and pen-input computing
How they know your online you is really you.
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Anti-viral: Vidarabine
Drug originally intended to fight cancer discovered effective against herpes simplex and varicella zoster viruses.
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Sonar and sea mammals
First laboratory in North America devoted to studying the behavior and physiology of sea mammals.