Spirit of Innovation: The SRI Model
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 2:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Location: Highlands Room
Time: 2:30-4:00pm
This event is for JMU faculty, staff, alumni and community leaders.
Presentation on
innovation by Dr. Curtis R. Carlson, President and CEO of SRI.
About SRI
Founded as a center of innovation and research at Stanford University,
SRI International became an independent nonprofit research institute in
1970, and remains a recognized leader in Silicon Valley’s innovation
ecosystem. SRI’s research has generated over 1,000 patents, and touches
on virtually every sector in the U.S. economy, including (but not
limited to): banking, robotics, national security, economic development,
energy and environmental technology, biomedicine, atmospheric research,
computing, and sensing technologies. One of SRI’s most widely
recognizable innovations revolutionized personal computing—the computer
mouse.
Other discoveries attributed to SRI during the early history of
computing are the “Windows” concept, hypertext, and videoconferencing.
Countless people around the world have benefited from SRI’s drug
development programs, which produced Halofantrine, a drug used to treat
malaria. In order to further their biological research, SRI established
the Center for Advanced Drug Research (CADRE) in the Rockingham Center
for Research and Technology, located just north of Harrisonburg. A more
recent technological innovation in the field of communications is Siri,
the virtual personal assistant for Apple’s iPhone. Launched in October
of 2011, Siri was made possible as a result of decades of SRI research
in artificial intelligence and leadership of the Personalized Assistant
that Learns (PAL) Program.
