Selected News Coverage

SRI International is featured in many press articles and broadcast news segments. The following is a sampling of our news coverage, arranged chronologically. Links are given where available.

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|2006|

KGO-TV (ABC), November 17
Is Sleep Stopping Smokers from Quitting?
This TV news report is about SRI's study of smoking cessation and sleep disturbance.

Drug Discovery News, November 9
SRI to Conduct Preclinical Studies of Cancer Drugs for Taiwan Liposome Co.
This article reports that SRI announced in early October an agreement with Taiwan Liposome Co. (TLC), a biopharmaceutical company, to begin preclinical safety and toxicology studies of a new cancer drug developed by TLC.

KGO-TV (ABC) , November 7
Video Games Being Used for ER Tests
This TV news story is about SRI's instrumenation and training technology playing an important role in a multi-agency disaster training exercise.

Bloomberg, November 7
SRI Wins U.S. Contract to Develop Drugs for Bird Flu
This article reports that SRI won a $56.9 million U.S. government contract to help develop treatments for bird flu, SARS and other contagious diseases. The agreement with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, based in Bethesda, Maryland, also covers germs such as anthrax and smallpox .

KGO-TV (ABC) , October 26
SRI Celebrates 60 Years of Inventions
This TV news report discusses the breakthrough inventions that have been developed at SRI over the last 60 years.

Military & Aerospace Electronics, September 14
SRI Licenses Speech Recognition Software to Adacel for Aviation Voice-Activated Cockpit, UAV, and Mission Specialist Applications
This article reports that that SRI has licensed its DynaSpeak speech recognition system to Adacel.  Adacel is incorporating DynaSpeak into aviation applications developed for pilots, crewmembers, mission specialists and unmanned aerial vehicle operators. 

Time, September 3
Creatology
This article reports on the SRI approach to innovation outlined in SRI President and CEO Curtis R. Carlson and co-author William Wilmot's book, Innovation: the Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want.

New York Times, August 7
Can Beirut Make Another Comeback?
This article about the future of tourism in Lebanon describes that SRI has been working to develop tourism in that country.

New York Times, August 7
Attitude Isn't Everything, But It's Close
This article about books on management discusses SRI CEO Curtis Carlson and co-author William Wilmot's new book, Innovation: the Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want.

Government Executive, July 24
House Committee Pushes Changes to IT Security Law
This article reports that the House Veteran's Affairs Committee is seeking a significant change in the law governing agency information security.

Associated Press , July 19
AI Believers Tout Optimism for Technology (link not available)
This article reports on the 50th anniversary of Artificial Intelligence, and discusses the future of AI. The article mentions that at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence annual meeting this week, an SRI researcher demonstrated a program that can schedule meetings, delegate tasks and book trips for a harried office worker, asking for guidance from a human when conflicts arise.

TravelDailyNews.com, June 14
Ministry of Tourism launches new official Lebanon tourism website
SRI and the Ministry of Tourism announced the launch of a new tourism website, DestinationLebanon. The new website was unveiled on June 13, 2006, by the Minister of Tourism, Mr. Joseph Sarkis, and the United States Ambassador to Lebanon, Mr. Jeffrey D. Feltman. The website was developed under financial support of the USAID Lebanon Mission, by SRI, in partnership with the Social and Cultural Development Association INMA and Webserv.

ZDNet.com, June 4
IraqComm computer cracks language barriers
This blog discusses SRI's two-way speech translation device, IraqComm.

San Francisco Chronicle, May 29
Military Getting High-Tech Help from SRI Lab: New system can recognize words, understand simple foreign phrases
This article discusses SRI's two-way translation system, IraqComm. Kristin Precoda, the director of the SRI STAR lab states: "One of the crying needs in Iraq is overcoming the language barrier."

ScienceCareer.org, May 25
Careers in Translational Medicine - From Bench to Bedside
This article discusses transitional medicine and its contributions to research laboratories and clinical work.

The New York Times, May 24
A Million Manhattan Projects
The article highlights the next big innovative "Manhattan Project," energy independence. The reporter provides a quick snap shot of his visit to SRI and mentions that he met with scientists who are working on the critical problem of how to get more electric power out of batteries.

GeneticEngineeringNews.com, May 11
Groundbreaking Cancer and Diabetes Therapies, Drug Delivery Modes Highlight Florida Tech Transfer Conference Agenda
This article highlights the agenda at the Tech Transfer Conference in Florida, where Walter H. Moos, Ph.D., vice president of SRI's Biosciences Division, was the keynote speaker.

MIT Technology Review, May/ June
Smart Cameras
This article covers software developed at SRI that can identify words and numbers in moving video taken under difficult conditions.

San Francisco Chronicle, April 18
Instant wireless networks for emergencies; Redwood City firm's software to be used at terror-attack drill
This article discusses PacketHop, an SRI spin-off company, and its release of software and how several trials are now running at various police departments. It mentions that the research behind the software started as a Defense Department-funded project at SRI.

San Jose Mercury News, April 10
Robot Makes Microsurgery More Exact
This is an article about the success of SRI spinoff-company Intuitive Surgical. The article mentions that the original prototype for robotic surgery was developed at SRI in the late 1980's.

Stanford Daily, April 5
InJo Events Bring in Big Name Speakers (link not available)
This article reports on the 3rd Annual Conference on Innovative Journalism, a Stanford University conference devoted to journalism that focuses on the technical, business, legal and political aspects of innovation. SRI President and CEO Curtis R. Carlson is highlighted as a speaker. The event featured editors from publications such as PC World, The Red Herring, CNET, and The Wall Street Journal.

CNET News.com, April 3
The Best of Times in Science and Tech
This article provides an overview of SRI and features a Q&A with SRI President and CEO Curtis R. Carlson. Carlson describes many of SRI's innovations over the years and describes areas where SRI will make an impact in the near future, including: comprehensive drug development, clean water technology, remotely controlled robotic surgery and next-generation Internet security.  Carlson also discusses SRI's corporate culture, which encourages employees to make the biggest impact they are capable of.

Defense Technology International
Lots of Bots - Robot Wars, May
Charlie Ortiz, SRI program director in the artificial intelligence lab said, "We've been doing research and developing team-based systems in which large collections of robots work together on tasks. One of these involves developing a framework for the coordination of 100 or more ground robots to search for suspicious persons or objects and to do it in a way that the collective behavior is greater than the sum of its parts.

Military Information Technology, March 13
Found in Translation (link not available)
Article reports that DARPA has launched a program aimed at improving automated, searchable translations, spurred by the military and intelligence communities' growing need to translate and retrieve pertinent foreign-language intelligence. The GALE program is focused on developing, integrating and applying technologies that will analyze and translate huge volumes of speech and text in multiple languages. Three prime contractor teams are developing GALE technology: BBN Technologies, SRI and IBM Watson Research Center.

| 2005 |

SC Magazine, COVER STORY, November 2005
Today's systems: Tomorrow's business (link not available)
This article covers the Cyber Security R&D Center, which SRI administrates for the Department of Homeland Security.

The Scientist, November 2005
Minding the Drug Development Gap
This article by SRI's Ted Spack reports that some technology transfer offices are struggling to support patent prosecution costs, and they face difficult decisions for maintaining their intellectual property. SRI has initiated several recent partnerships with universities to develop collaborative responses to current challenges in translational development.

Wired News, November 18, 2005
War-Zone Test for Babel-Fish Tool

KQED, November 14, 2005
Direct Carbon Fuel Cells
KQED Radio's Peter Jon Schuler interviews Larry Dubois, VP SRI Physical Sciences.

Red Herring, November 14, 2005
Coal Fuel Cell Has Promise

Bloomberg.com, October 2005
Hurdles Facing Roche Flu Drug May Extend Shortages
SRI VP of Biosciences, Dr. Walter Moos, is quoted in this article.

BusinessWeek, Fall 2005
Old Is New Again

Military & Aerospace Electronics, September 20, 2005
DARPA funds software to coordinate battlefield operations

CNET, September 8, 2005
Solar Flares Could Disrupt Power, Communications

The New York Times, August 3, 2005
Apple Offers a Mouse to Counteract the One-Button Blues
John Markoff reported on Apple's new computer mouse and how the mouse was invented at SRI.

Arizona Republic, August 3, 2005
Finding New Breed of Teachers
Dan Humphrey from SRI's Center for Education Policy weighs in on how best to find qualified teachers for the classroom.

CNET, August 3, 2005
Portable Radar Stations Help Predict Space Weather
By Michael Kanellos

The San Jose Mercury News, August 3, 2005
Probing Impact of Solar Unrest on Telecom
A report on new developments with the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR), a relocatable radar array developed by SRI.

Inside Higher Ed, July 29, 2005
College and the Disabled Student
An SRI report for the Department of Education, "After High School: A First Look at the Postschool Experiences of Youth With Disabilities," is featured.

Forbes.com, July 27, 2005
Medical Renaissance
A description of the advent of robotic surgery and its origins at SRI.

Bio-IT News, July 12, 2005
SRI Expands BioCyc Collection of Pathway/Genome Databases (link not available)
Learn more about BioCyc here.

Genetic Engineering News, July 11, 2005
Vaccine Researchers Combat Biothreat Agents; Preclinical Safety Testing Aims to Reduce the Deadly Effects of Ricin Toxin
Features SRI's Biosciences Division's work in vaccine research.

San Jose Mercury News, June 9, 2005
For the Love of Research
A feature about SRI Vice President (retired) Donald Nielson's book on the history of several SRI innovations.

CrainsDetroit.com, July 4, 2005
Getting the Word Out
This article referenced an SRI report on Michigan's economic competitiveness.

Knight Ridder News Service, June 1, 2005
The Pentagon Envisions Electronic Office Assistant for Busy Human Bosses (link not available)
Robert Boyd described the DARPA-funded CALO program at SRI.

The New York Times, April 18, 2005
Moore's Law But Another Had the Idea First (registration required)
John Markoff reports on how observations by SRI technical adviser emeritus Doug Engelbart may have inspired Moore's Law.

DefenseTech, March, 2005
Helping Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan Connect with Locals
The SRI DynaSpeak-powered Phraselator handheld translation device is featured.

The Washington Post, April 4, 2005
SRI to Develop Robotics for Battlefield Medical Care
SRI's Trauma Pod project is featured.

San Francisco Chronicle, March 28, 2005
SRI Envisions Remote-Controlled Battlefield Surgery Units
SRI's Trauma Pod project is featured.

TechNewsWorld, March 28, 2005
Pentagon Awards Grant to Build Battlefield Surgery Robot
SRI's Trauma Pod project is featured.

| 2004 |

PC Week, December 2004
Tech Visionary-The Nearly Invisible Battery
An interview about fiber and printed batteries with (now former) SRI Vice President Larry Dubois.

BusinessWeek, October 11, 2004
Flying High?
An interview with SRI President and CEO Curtis R. Carlson about how U.S. innovation now has serious competition from abroad.

Technology Review, Ocober 8, 2004
Building a Biotech Business
An interview with SRI President and CEO Curtis R. Carlson.

Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, September 24, 2004
Wearable Battery? What Next?
A report on SRI's innovative battery developments.

Forbes, September 20, 2004
Energizing Ideas
The magazine reported on how SRI is putting new life in batteries.

Financial Times, September 8, 2004
If at First You Don't Succeed (subscription required)
Tom Foremski interviews SRI President and CEO Curtis Carlson on the climate of disciplined innovation at SRI.

BusinessWeek, September 6, 2004
Douglas C. Engelbart: From Mice to Windows
A profile of one of the magazine's "greatest innovators of the past 75 years".

Associated Press, December 8, 2004
Teacher Supply Outlook Bleak for State
A report on on the outlook of California's future supply of qualified educators.

San Francisco Chronicle, December 8, 2004
California; State is Due to Lose Qualified Teachers
A report on the outlook for California teachers.

Chemical & Engineering News, July 26, 2004
As High-Throughput Screening Draws Fire, Researchers Leverage Science to Put Automation into Perspective
A report on SRI's experiences with high-throughput screening.

San Jose Mercury News, July 12, 2004
We, Robots (link not available)
A report on innovative robots, including those from SRI.

San Jose Mercury News, May 19, 2004
Firm Flexes Its Artificial Muscles (link not available)
A report on SRI spin-off Artificial Muscle, Inc.

San Jose Mercury News, March 10, 2004
But Can It Take the SAT for You? Researchers Building a Computer That Thinks (link not available)
A report on Project HALO.

Federal Computer Week, February 2004
Real Genius: Changing Security Needs Spark Innovative Tech Development (link not available)
A report on "nimble robots... and handheld translators", among the new devices that could be available to government security officials as R&D projects start to bear fruit.

San Francisco Chronicle, February 2, 2004
NanoTech: Big Bets on a Small Scale
A report on nanotechnology features SRI.

Wired, January 2004
The Click Heard Round The World
An account of Doug Engelbart's groundbreaking 1968 demonstration of the mouse and other foundations of personal computing.

| 2003-1998 |

Wired News, August 2003
Telling the Twins Apart
A4Vision tested its facial recognition system on identical twins from SRI's Northern California Twin Registry.

Technology Review, July 25, 2002
Sarnoff's Video Flashlight (subscription required)
SRI subsidiary Sarnoff Corporation's" Video Flashlight" system brings new meaning to "reality programming".

Information Week, April 1, 2002
Software Adaptability
A report on SRI's work with DARPA to build software dependability gauges.

Wired News, May 2002
SRI's Hermes Brings DNA Testing to Point of Care
A report on SRI's innovative technology to isolate and purify a patient's DNA for accurate, fast diagnoses.

Forbes ASAP, April 2, 2001
The Amazing, Incredible Shrinking Future!
SRI's bomb-sniffing "inchworm" robot is singled out in this story about the exciting future of MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) technology.

The New York Times, January 23, 2001
Night Glow in the Skies of Venus
A report on SRI's first observation of atomic oxygen in the night airglow of Venus.

PBS' Scientific American Frontiers, April 10, 2001
Flying Free
Host Alan Alda explored some of the latest innovations in aeronautical engineering, including SRI's work developing flapping fliers powered by electroactive polymer "artificial muscle".

Red Herring, October 29, 2002
Artificial Muscle and the "Fly on the Wall"
After talking with Roy Kornbluh, Red Herring is excited about the future of SRI's artificial muscle and how it might enable "nosy" flapping-wing robots masquerading as flying insects.

Technology Review, July 2002
Incubating Defense Technology (subscription required)
SRI subsidiary Sarnoff Corporation's role in a networked warfighting project for the U.S. Army is featured.

Technology Review, July 2002
Why Software is So Bad (subscription required)
Peter Neumann, principal scientist in SRI's Computer Science Laboratory, is quoted on the potential impacts of "bad software".

San Francisco Business Times, April 2001
Innovations with Real Value
An interview with SRI President and CEO Curtis R. Carlson on how the institute brings new ideas to market and continues to succeed in today's changing business climate.

Knowledge Management, December 20, 2000
Champion of the Future Factory (link not available)
A conversation with SRI President and CEO Curtis R. Carlson on how SRI is cultivating an environment for innovation and reaping intellectual assets.

EE Times, December 2000
Eliminating Bugs from the Start - Implementing Formal Methods in Tools and Design Flows
A special edition, Century of the Engineer, featured Dr. Patrick Lincoln, director of SRI's Computer Science Laboratory.

Fortune, November 27, 2000
Look Who's Doing R&D | Where R&D is Thriving (link not available)
The magazine reported that research is flourishing at SRI and other private institutes, national labs, private institutes, and smart companies.

American Forces Information Service, August 2000
EMERALD Wins Praise (link not available)
This report mentions that SRI's EMERALD cyberdefense system performs "20 times better than commercial products available today."

San Francisco Chronicle, August 2, 1999
Future TV
The reported how SRI subsidiary Sarnoff Corporation is leading the future of television technology.

The New York Times, March 23, 1999
Cold Fusion: A Tempest in a Test Tube, Ten Years Later
10 years after Pons and Fleischmann reported that they had achieved "cold fusion", the Times spoke to Dr. Michael McKubre about his research at SRI. Wired magazine named McKubre one of "The Wired 25."

BusinessWeek, August 1998
Spin-Off City
Otis Port reported on how SRI earned its spin-off city reputation, and profiled Doug Engelbart, the man who created the computer mouse.

San Francisco Chronicle, August 27, 1998
Robots Rule
Programmable industrial robots have been used in industrial settings for more than 20 years—yet these applications required little intelligence. The article features SRI's work in creating next-generation robotics.

San Francisco Chronicle, July 28, 1999
Space Shuttle of the Future
A report on how NASA is teaming with SRI and other Silicon Valley-based technology innovators to build the space shuttle of the future.