Seeing thousands of miles beyond the horizon for advances in detection, tracking and mapping.
Computing
If you’ve ever watched TV, used a computer mouse, surfed the web, or talked to Siri on an iPhone, you’ve used an innovation tied to SRI’s groundbreaking research. Discover the many ways SRI technologies touch our lives every day.
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Over-the-horizon radar
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.
Liquid crystal display
LCDs have changed the way people view information on a screen.
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.
Dish radio antenna
We invented satellite slang and spacecraft speak.
Banking automation: ERMA
Easier money counting led to easier money making.
SRI joins the fight against cancer
SRI hosted the first national symposium on air pollution in Pasadena, California in 1949.
All-magnetic logic computer
Virtually indestructible computer circuitry.
TIROS 1 weather satellite
The world’s first space-based meteorology satellite.
Optical video disk
Optical recording paves the way for first video disk recording/playback system.
Eyetracker
Follow what people are looking at to see solutions clearer.
CMOS integrated circuit
Vital technology still found in most of the world’s electronic circuitry.
