The first commercially available all-solid-state broadcast camera delivers clearer, sharper images than ever before.
Communication
Return to the Timeline of innovation.
High-definition television
We help develop and standardize HDTV technology–and win an Emmy for our contributions.
Deafnet
National telecommunications system raises awareness within the deaf community of email’s potential.
Internetworking
Today’s internet was born in a 1970’s van.
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.
Handwriting recognition, signature verification and pen-input computing
How they know your online you is really you.
Airline reservation system
From 1962 to 1964, SRI led development of a real-time communications system for the Scandinavian Airline System (SAS) to process passenger reservations and check-in.