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• Virtual Assistant Era Looms

  - 2007-06-01

  Machine learning, reasoning, perception provide cognitive assistants for novel, robust functions. Significant individual technology advances are being harnessed to facilitate effective cognitive computing systems. These information system technologies focus on a common application that radically improves the way computers support human beings. A cognitive system is emerging that...

  Tags: DARPA, Manufacturing, radar, software, SRI International, Strategy

• DARPA Selects SRI International to Lead Trauma Pod Battlefield Medical Treatment System Development Program

  - 2005-03-28

  MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Revolutionary Unmanned Medical/Surgical System Could Save Soldiers' Lives on the Battlefield Imagine an automated medical treatment system that does not require onsite medical personnel on the front lines of battle, and is ready to receive, assess, and stabilize wounded soldiers during the critical hours following...

  Tags: DARPA, leader, Leadership, Robots, SRI International

• Menlo Park, Calif., Think Tank Develops Robotic Team for Military Projects.

  - 2003-12-20

  By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 20--When Randy Gobbel joined SRI International a year ago, one of the coolest things about his new job in the Engineering Building was the little red robots wandering the...

  Tags: computer, DARPA, Robots, San Jose Mercury News, SRI International

• University Team in Pittsburgh to Develop New Software 'Secretary'.

  - 2003-07-17

  By Byron Spice, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 17--Computer scientist Dan Siewiorek spent six hours this week compiling an interim report on one of his research projects for a government agency. It was a necessary chore, but in terms of...

  Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, computer, DARPA, PRODUCTIVITY, software, SRI International, team

• Power walking

  - 2001-12-01

  Taking a walk tones the muscles. It could recharge your personal electronics too, says Technology Review. Researchers at SRI International say they have built a boot that can convert 2.5 hours of walking into enough electricity to provide 20 minutes of cell phone use. The key ingredient is a polymer...

  Tags: DARPA, polymer, SRI International

• Silicon Valley Companies Commercialize Biowarfare Research.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-08-27

  Aug. 27--On a translucent plastic slab slightly larger than a credit card, a drop of water suspected of containing anthrax races through a maze of tiny channels the width of two human hairs. Antibodies lining the channels cling to passing biological pathogens and, in a matter...

  Tags: Biotechnology, DARPA, DNA, Government, Pentagon, SRI International

• Former DARPA Director Dr. Lawrence H. Dubois Leads SRI International's Physical Sciences Division

  - 2000-03-21

  Business Editors & High-Tech/Science/Government Writers MENLO PARK, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 21, 2000 Silicon Valley-based SRI International, a leading independent technology innovator, today announced the appointment of Dr. Lawrence H. Dubois to vice president of the Physical Sciences Division. Dr. Dubois, former director of the Defense Sciences Office at the...

  Tags: DARPA, Dr., FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, SRI International

• SRI International Awarded $1.6 Million for Development of 3-D Visualization System; new system will use widely distributed data to support rapid response applications

  - 1997-02-06

  MENLO PARK, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 6, 1997--SRI International was awarded a subcontract for $1.6 million from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA for its role in MAGIC-II, a collaborative three-year project involving industry, academia and government. MAGIC-II, a follow-on to the original MAGIC project (MAGIC-I), will...

  Tags: 3D, DARPA, Government, NETWORKING, SRI International

• Voices in command: bringing understanding to speech recognition

  - 1993-04-03

  It's one of the hazards of modern life. You dial a telephone number, and then you hear the ominous words: "Welcome to Monstrous Mortgage's customer service department. For faster service, please utilize our automated response unit. If you are calling from a touch-tone phone, please press 1 now. ...

  Tags: DARPA, SRI International, voice

• SRI language-recognition computer wins competition. (SRI International)

  - 1991-06-03

  SRI LANGUAGE-RECOGNITION COMPUTER WINS COMPETITION Last Year, A Computer Answered Only Half The Questions; New Error Rate Is 7.5 Percent The world's first objective testing of spoken language computer systems -- intelligent computers able to understand and respond ...

  Tags: computer, DARPA, PRODUCTIVITY, SRI International