Record of Innovation

SRI International has been performing both basic and applied research in computing and information sciences for a wide range of government and industrial clients for six decades.

Our legacy of world-changing innovations includes the first computerized banking system in the 1950s. In 1964, we pioneered personal computing and the mouse; in 1969, we became one of the original nodes of ARPANET. In the 1970s, we were pioneers in vacuum microelectronics, field-effect cathodes, and ultrasonic medical imaging. In the 1980s, we developed an expert system for geological exploration, developed electronic mail and multimedia conferencing (1986), and devised the calculus of evidential reasoning (1987). The 1990s saw the development of highly successful natural language speech recognition (DECIPHER) and understanding systems, and development of software-based network intrusion detection technology. In the 2000s, we began creation of the BioCyc pathway/genome databases and Pathway Tools bioinformatics software, and we are designing CALO, an intelligent computer system, for the DARPA Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program. Our contributions to the scientific literature continue to number well over 100 papers per year.

Visit our Timeline of Innovations for additional research and technology breakthroughs from SRI.

Join SRI on December 9, 2008 as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first public multimedia demonstration of the mouse by Doug Engelbart and his SRI team.

For more information about SRI's Information and Computing Sciences Division, contact:

Dr. William Mark
Vice President
Information and Computing Sciences Division
SRI International
650.859.4530 (phone)
bill.mark@sri.com