SRI hosted the first national symposium on air pollution in Pasadena, California in 1949.
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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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.
The computer mouse and interactive computing
Your Mouse. Our “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System.” Thankfully Mouse won out.
Spindt cold cathode for displays
Revolutionary cathode led to today’s “instant-on” flat-panel computers and televisions.
Digital FAX machine
SRI develops the prototype for world’s first digital fax machine.