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Smart People: Kristin Precoda, Director of Speech Technology, SRI International

Has the Star Trek Universal Translator arrived? Kristin Precoda, a speech translation researcher at SRI International demos a new translation system. Originally designed for the military to mediate a conversation between English and Iraqi Arabic, the translator is being developed for civilian use in the fields of medicine and general...

Tags: SRI International, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Smart People: John Mirsalis, Managing Director, Biosciences Division, SRI International

How will we find the cure for Swine Flu? John Mirsalis and biosciences team at SRI International are working on the development of drugs to fight infectious diseases like HIV, Malaria, Tuberculosis and the Flu. Over the years, his team has helped save thousands of lives by moving drugs from...

Tags: Team, SRI International, Team Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Smart People: Harsha Prahlad, Senior Research Engineer, Mobile Robots, SRI International

Robotic wall climbers assigned to military surveillance? Harsha Prahlad has developed a smart technology called electro-adhesion. The way it works, mechanical robots are clamped to walls using an electro-static charge and then the robots move up and down with an electric power supply. Prahlad believes the technology could be used...

Tags: Mobile, SRI International, Wall, Harsha Prahlad, Prahlad, Robots, Construction, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI International

Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI InternationalGreat video..I've been following this science since 2001 and it is good to see how it's "fleshing" out, so to speak. Actually no pun intended.

Tags: Robots, Medical Robotics, Tom Low, Smart People, SRI International, robotics, Tom

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI International

A robot in every operating room? Tom Low leads a team of researchers and engineers working on the next generation of medical robots to be used in laparoscopic surgery. Pioneered in the 1980s by SRI, the procedures involve doctors making very small incisions and then using long, skinny, robotically controlled...

Tags: Robotics, SRI International, Tom Low, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-08

New Conficker variant looks same, acts differently

The criminals behind the widespread Conficker worm have released a new version of the malware that looks almost identical to the original but operates much differently, reports PC World. The new variant, dubbed Conficker B++, was spotted three days ago by SRI International researchers, who published details...

Tags: Variant, Worm, SRI International, Conficker B++, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri

Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, for example tantalising with allusions to underpinning technology; "We are not building...

Tags: Software, SRI International, Siri, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Authentication Solutions Through Keystroke Dynamics

SRI International then conducted a feasibility study for the National Bureau of Standards on the use of keystroke dynamics for computer security. The study demonstrated that a familiar passage such as a logon and password sequence was sufficient for virtually error-free authentication of users. In 984, International Bioaccess Systems Corporation...

Tags: SRI International, Authentication, BioPassword, Security

White papers 2006-06-12

IraqComm computer cracks language barriers

Four years after the Phraselator, which was designed to recognize a thousand of English phrases, a team of computer scientists from SRI International is delivering the IraqComm device to U.S. military personnel in Iraq. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, this new system has a vocabulary of 40,000 English words...

Tags: IraqComm

Blog posts 2006-06-04

Additional Resources

Smart Planet: Interactive TV builds literacy skills among low-income kids

Carlin Llorente, a researcher at SRI International discusses recent findings that shows low-income pre-school kids benefiting from a curriculum that includes public media content inside the classroom. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Interactive TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-13

Who will manage the smart grid?

At Greentech Media's Green Building Summit at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., tech executives discuss the future management of smart-grid technology and whether the balance of power will go toward utility companies, government regulatory agencies or building owners.

Tags: Grid, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Vertical Industries, Smart grid

Videos 2009-06-17

Speeding up construction on 'green' homes

At Greentech Media’s Green Building Summit at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., Serious Material Chairman Marc Porat discusses the challenges associated with building "green" residential homes. He believes it’s important for the green industry to persuade governments to mandate environmentally sustainable buildings in order to speed up construction. ...

Tags: Construction, Government, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Speeding up construction on ‘green' homes

At Greentech Media's Green Building Summit at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., Serious Material Chairman Marc Porat discusses the challenges associated with building "green" residential homes. He believes it's important for the green industry to persuade governments to mandate environmentally sustainable buildings in order to speed up construction.

Tags: Construction, Government, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Management, Green Buildings

Videos 2009-06-15

Tech execs talk smart design for ‘green' buildings

At Greentech Media's Green Building Summit at SRI International, in Menlo Park, Calif., tech executives discuss what is needed to construct and design "green" buildings. Executives contend that many "green" buildings are not energy efficient and smart design means more than picking the right materials and products.

Tags: Executive, LEED

Videos 2009-06-15

News to know: Apple WWDC, iPhone, Macs; Palm Pre; Google Apps; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Apple coverage: Ed Burnette: WWDC 2009 live Jason D. O'Grady: WWDC 09: the announcements (Updated 10x)...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-06-09

German researchers score Conficker detection breakthrough

Just days ahead of an April 1st activation date for the Conficker worm squirming through the Windows operating system, security researchers at the Honeynet Project have scored a major breakthrough, finding a way to fingerprint the malware on infected networks. Now, with the help of Dan Kaminsky...

Tags: Researcher, Network, Honeynet Project, Malware, Conficker, Conficker Malware, Scanners, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Conficker Cabal fights threat to security, Internet

ICANN is leading the white hats in an "extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle" against the forces behind the Conficker malware, John Markoff reports in the Times. Dancho Danchev noted recently that: Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain...

Tags: Researcher, Malware, Conficker Program, Internet, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service

Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...

Tags: Google PageRank, Attacker, Network, DShield, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Internet, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayed

Yahoo said Thursday that Edward Kozel resigned from its board of directors. The company will reduce the size of its board from 10 directors to nine and delayed its shareholder meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July 2008." Investor Carl Icahn has proposed an...

Tags: Board, Business Operations, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Director, Larry Dignan, Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Solar: Thin film or silicon?

At the 4th Annual Energy Tech Investor Forum in San Jose, Calif., panel moderator Neal Dikeman of Jane Capital Partners, leads a discussion with executives on emerging solar technologies such as thin film and geothermal silicon production. The panelists are: Jane Long, associate director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Peng Lim,...

Tags: Silicon, Director, Semiconductors, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Green

Videos 2007-10-05