SRI International Digest #12, Summer 2004

Greetings from independent research institute SRI International! In this issue, learn about our latest advances in medical products, drug development, and education -- and check out who's headed for the Robot Hall of Fame!

IN THIS ISSUE:

HEALTH AND MEDICINE
-- SRI Allies with Plexus and Delphi Medical Systems to Bring Medical Products to Market
-- National Cancer Institute Asks SRI to Qualify Cancer Drug Candidates for Clinical Studies

ROBOTICS
-- Shakey Selected for Robot Hall of Fame

EDUCATION
-- First Study Results Announced on U.S.' Largest One-to-One Computing Initiative

SRI SPIN-OFF NEWS
-- PacketHop Secures $10 Million, Signs Co-Marketing Agreement

SRI NEWS, PEOPLE AND EVENTS
-- SRI in the News
-- Meet SRI People
-- Upcoming Events
-- Is an SRI Innovation in a Museum Near You?

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

SRI Allies with Plexus and Delphi Medical Systems to Bring Medical Products to Market
SRI has recently allied with two major medical product manufacturers to help bring new devices to the marketplace:

* Plexus Corporation (NASDAQ: PLXS) has allied with SRI to help medical technology companies bring new life-saving product solutions to market. The alliance provides a new model for companies (from emerging start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations) that seek contract engineering and manufacturing to help bring their technology concepts to commercialization. Together, SRI and Plexus give customers access to everything from basic research to product design and volume manufacturing, all from one integrated team. More information

* Delphi Medical Systems Corp., a subsidiary of Delphi Corp. (NYSE: DPH), has signed a research and development agreement with SRI to develop several new respiratory care technologies. Delphi Medical Systems anticipates marketing the respiratory care technologies within 12 months. The agreement gives SRI an opportunity to lend its interdisciplinary R&D expertise to products that will have a positive impact on human health. More information

National Cancer Institute Asks SRI to Qualify Cancer Drug Candidates for Clinical Studies
Under two contracts totaling approximately $12.3 million over seven years, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has selected SRI to evaluate the preclinical safety and pharmacology of potential therapeutic cancer treatments and chemopreventive agents. NCI will use SRI's preclinical studies to support Investigational New Drug (IND) applications to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical studies. SRI has provided the NCI with services for 50 years. More information

ROBOTICS

Shakey Selected for Robot Hall of Fame
Carnegie Mellon University has selected SRI's pioneering “Shakey” robot for induction into their Robot Hall of Fame. Shakey and four other celebrated robots will be honored in a ceremony on October 11 at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. Shakey, which put SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center on the map in the 1960s, was the first autonomous mobile robot capable of sensing its environment and navigating its own course. More information

SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center has been a center of innovation for more than 35 years. Check out the AIC timeline for some of the Center's major achievements and milestones.

EDUCATION

First Study Results Announced on U.S.' Largest One-to-One Computing Initiative
An overwhelming majority of teachers and students in grades 6-12 in the Henrico County, Virginia public school district reported positive impacts of using laptop computers, according to a study by SRI's Center for Education Policy and the Education Development Center, Inc. With 25,000 laptops provided to students and teachers, the Henrico County program is the largest ubiquitous, or "one-to-one" computing initiative in any U.S. school district. The study is funded by the National Science Foundation. Read more about the study results and visit http://ubiqcomputing.org/.

SRI SPIN-OFF NEWS

PacketHop Secures $10 Million, Signs Co-Marketing Agreement
PacketHop, Inc. has secured $10 million in a Series B financing round led by the venture capital firm ComVentures. The funding will fuel company growth for commercial launching of secure mobile mesh networking products. PacketHop has also signed a partnership agreement with Nortel networks to co-market mobile communications solutions, initially for rapid deployment of secure networks to be used by public safety and law enforcement agencies. Also, Norman Winarsky, SRI's Vice President of Ventures and Strategic Programs, recently joined PacketHop's board of directors. For more information about PacketHop, and how the company is bringing another SRI innovation to market, visit http://www.packethop.com.

SRI NEWS, PEOPLE AND EVENTS

SRI in the News

* The Financial Times interviews SRI President and CEO Dr. Curt Carlson on SRI's disciplined approach to innovation and suggests that the program would be of value to other organizations: http://www.ft.com (subscription required). Learn more about SRI's innovation partnership
programs.

* ComputerWorld covers SRI's role in the creation of the Arpanet (now the Internet) 35 years ago.

* Small Times interviews SRI's Dr. Subhash Narang about SRI's contributions to the burgeoning field of nanomaterials.

* American Scientist includes an article by SRI senior researcher Dr. Ron Pelrine about diamagnetic levitation. Known since the 1930s, diamagnetic levitation is a simple technique for suspending objects magnetically that is just now finding practical application.

* The San Jose Mercury News features cool SRI robots on the move.

Visit http://www.sri.com/news/coverage/ for more SRI media coverage.

Meet SRI People

* Scott Stanford, Research Engineer in SRI's Advanced Transducer Program: Scott designs, simulates, and operates robots and other systems based on SRI's electroactive polymer artificial muscle (EPAM) technology. Read more about Scott.

Upcoming Events

* DEMOmobile: See what's next in the wireless world, September 8-10, La Jolla, CA. SRI's VP of Physical Sciences Larry Dubois will speak on advanced energy sources for mobile devices. More information

* "Innovation Success: From R&D to Commercialization": a panel discussion on the challenges of optimizing the R&D process for commercial success. Co-sponsored by SRI and IBD Network. Speakers include SRI CEO Curt Carlson and Norman Winarsky, VP of Ventures and Strategic Programs. September 21, 6:30pm - 8:30pm at SRI's Menlo Park location. More information and registration.

* Convergence 2004: Vehicle Electronics to Digital Mobility, October 18-20, Detroit.

* Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, October 23-27, San Diego.

* AUSA 2004: Our Army at War: Relevant and Ready, October 25-27, Washington, D.C. More information

* American College of Toxicology Annual Meeting, November 7-9, Palm Springs. More information

* American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting, November 7-11, Baltimore.

Is an SRI Innovation in a Museum Near You?
* Over the decades, many of SRI's innovations have had significant historical, scientific, and societal value. Recognizing this, museums around the U.S. approach SRI to request acquisition or loan of artifacts. Replicas of the first computer mouse, which was invented at SRI, have been donated or are on loan to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Boston Museum of Science, and The Tech Museum in San Jose, California. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, has acquired the first all-magnetic logic computer, created in 1959 by SRI's Hew Crane. SRI's Shakey, the world's first mobile robot able to reason about its surroundings, resides at the Computer History Museum, as does the van from which SRI made the first mobile wireless demonstration of the Internet protocol TCP in 1977.

ABOUT SRI INTERNATIONAL
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