SRI International Digest # 26, Summer 2008 Subscribe to the SRI International Digest, our quarterly e-newsletter, or view previous issues. IN THIS ISSUE Enhancement for Combat Readiness Training Systems Unveiled New Software Shows Promising Results in Teaching Fractions Tampa Bay Tech Forum Teams with SRI to Help Emerging Companies Innovation highlight of Summer 2008: SRI Robots!
In natural disasters, military actions, and public safety threats, the ability for a robot to scale walls and other vertical building surfaces offers unique capabilities. SRI's novel clamping technology, called compliant electroadhesion, has enabled wall-climbing robots that may help in such situations. SRI has demonstrated robust performance of these robots in climbing walls made of several common materials. Watch SRI’s wall-climbing robot in action on YouTube! Read about SRI's robotics innovations.
Enhancement for Combat Readiness Training Systems Unveiled
PacketHop Announces Draft IEEE 802.11s Mesh Product PacketHop, Inc., an SRI company and an innovator in instant broadband mesh networking communications systems, has announced availability of its IEEE Draft 802.11s mesh product. PacketHop's implementation of the upcoming IEEE 802.11s industry standard enables the creation of meshed peer-to-peer communications structures—as standalone networks or in conjunction with existing access points—opening new and strategic market opportunities for OEM.
New Software Shows Promising Results in Teaching Fractions SRI's evaluation of the Technology-Mediated Peer-Assisted Learning (TechPALS) software program finds that students improved their mastery of fractions using the technology.
Education Reform for Florida Children Evaluated SRI will conduct a three-year evaluation of Ready Schools Florida, a key reform effort within the state. SRI will study the effectiveness of initiatives to improve student readiness and long-term academic success. Ready Schools Florida is among the nation’s most comprehensive efforts to improve the well-being of children at risk of academic, health, and social difficulties.
Tampa Bay Tech Forum Teams with SRI to Help Emerging Companies SRI will serve as a strategic advisor to Tampa Bay Technology Forum's (TBTF) Emerging Companies Academy. TBTF is Florida's premier technology industry association. The Academy works with companies ranging from new startups to businesses with shippable products seeking to accelerate their growth.
Come to the Next Cafe Scientifique Silicon Valley at SRI
Meet... Annalisa D’Andrea
Senior Director, Immunology and Inflammation, Biosciences
Meet... Chris Lantman
Director of Commercial and International Business Development, Physical Sciences
Meet... Polly Chang
Director, Molecular and Genetic Toxicology, Biosciences Dr. Chang, a principal investigator on a number of NIH vaccine contracts, has supervised successful preclinical safety testing of more than six candidate HIV vaccines, several of which have been approved for Phase I clinical trials.
Gary Brown Appointed to National Maritime Security Advisory Committee Gary Brown has been named by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to a one-year appointment as a member and advisor to the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee (NMSAC). Brown, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general, heads the SRI-led National Center for Maritime and Port Security, based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Paper by SRI Artificial Intelligence Researchers Wins Award A 1988 paper by three SRI researchers, Plans and resource-bounded practical reasoning, has won the 2008 influential paper award from the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. This award was initiated to recognize papers that have had significant impact on the field of computer agents and multi-agent systems.
Phil Green
Phil Green Receives an “Inventor of the Year Award” from the European Commission SRI staff alumnus Phil Green is one of four inventors to receive Europe’s top innovation prize for 2008. Green’s contributions to the fields of ultrasonic imaging and minimally invasive "robotic" surgery while at SRI have had tremendous impact on the practice of medicine.
NASA NEEMO 12 Mission Journal, June: SRI’s M-7 Used in NASA’s NEEMO 12 Telesurgery Simulation
CNET, May: Sticky Robot Scales Walls
SRI reaches out to current and potential clients, partners, and employees by participating in various events during the course of the year. These are opportunities to showcase our latest technology innovations, expand business relationships, initiate dialogs to forge future alliances, and to be present at key industry conventions. Click here for a list of conferences and tradeshows at which SRI will exhibit in 2008.
For more information on SRI's innovations and how we can help you, contact SRI Digest editor Marty Mallonee at marty.mallonee@sri.com. The SRI Digest welcomes your feedback. Please send suggestions or comments to newsletter@sri.com. Start or discontinue a subscription by sending an email to newsletter@sri.com. Copyright 2008 SRI International. All rights reserved.
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