SRI International Digest #24 - Winter 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE:
• SRI and Public Officials Break Ground for New R&D Facility in Virginia
• National Center for Marine and Port Security Launches First Major Project
• Potential Cancer Drugs Evaluated
• Effect of Teacher Practices on Student Writing Performance Evaluated
• Event Marks 30th Anniversary of an Internet Milestone
• Meet Our People
• SRI in the News
SRI and Public Officials Break Ground for New R&D Facility in Virginia
 Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine and officials from Rockingham County and the City of Harrisonburg joined SRI executives for a groundbreaking ceremony at the new Rockingham Center for Research and Technology in Harrisonburg. The site will be the new home of SRI Shenandoah Valley and its Center for Advanced Drug Research, which currently has offices and laboratories on the nearby James Madison University (JMU) campus.
The facility is being built in partnership with the Commonwealth of Virginia, Rockingham County, the City of Harrisonburg, JMU, the Shenandoah Valley Partnership, and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.
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In the news: Kaine Heralds New Technology (Daily News Weekly, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 12/5/07)
National Center for Marine and Port Security Launches First Major Project
 SRI leads the National Center for Maritime and Port Security, which recently launched its first major project: a five-year, $36.5M contract from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command to develop a Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) system that demonstrates advanced sensing and situation awareness technologies for improved U.S. port security.
Florida Congressman C.W. Bill Young, representative of the 10th Congressional District and the senior Republican in the House of Representatives, announced the contract at a press conference on October 26.
The National Center for Maritime and Port Security, based in SRI's St. Petersburg facility, has a mission to help the U.S. understand the global maritime elements that could impact the nation's security, safety, economy, or environment. The Center's work spans research, technology development, systems integration, testing, demonstrations, deployments, evaluations, policy, and training.
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Potential Cancer Drugs Evaluated
SRI's Biosciences Division is conducting analytical chemistry evaluations of anti-cancer drugs and dosage formulations for the National Cancer Institute. The goal is to further development of promising compounds by providing resources to investigators developing new therapies. SRI has supported the NCI's drug development efforts for more than 50 years.
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Other News from SRI Biosciences:
Effect of Teacher Practices on Student Writing Performance Evaluated
SRI has launched a four-year study to evaluate the effectiveness of teacher professional development on improving teacher practices and student writing performance in grades 7 and 8. The study will capture and evaluate data from 40 schools in 15 local writing project sites across the United States.
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Event Marks 30th Anniversary of an Internet Milestone
 1977 marked a critical milestone in the development of the Internet and wireless networking. While many people trace the Internet's origins to the ARPANET of the late 1960s, the word "internet" means joining different kinds of individual networks together. Internetworking made its formal debut with the first connection across three dissimilar networks in 1977. SRI and its packet radio network, which was located in a panel van that drove the highways of the San Francisco Bay Area, played a major role.
On November 7, the Computer History Museum and the Web History Center presented a celebration of this historic demonstration. A panel led by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, who oversaw the project for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), featured recollections from industry pioneers who participated in the 1977 event.
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In the news: 'Internet van' helped drive evolution of the Web (CNET, 11/8/07)
Meet Our People
• Eric Pearson Appointed Vice President of Physical Sciences Division
 Eric Pearson, Ph.D. has been named vice president of SRI's Physical Sciences Division. Prior to taking this role, Pearson was director of SRI's
Applied Physical Sciences Laboratory, recently reorganized as the Applied Optics Laboratory and the Sensor Systems Laboratory.
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• Krishna Kodukula Appointed to Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Committee
 Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine has appointed Krishna Kodukula, executive director of SRI's Center for Advanced Drug Research (CADRE) at SRI Shenandoah Valley, to the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Committee. The committee works with the governor on strategies for advancing business and technology.
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• John Sternlicht Joins SRI's Shenandoah Valley Leadership Team
Joining SRI from the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP), John Sternlicht, J.D., C.Ec.D. is the new senior director of strategic projects at SRI Shenandoah Valley. At VEDP, he served as general counsel and legislative director. At SRI, Sternlicht's focus is on operations, business development, and marketing opportunities.
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• SRI Japan's Osamu Karatsu Receives METI Honor
 Osamu Karatsu, executive director of SRI Japan, has received the 2007 METI Minister Award from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) for the "promotion of industrial standardization."
• Software and Information Industry Association Appoints Valerie Crawford to Board of Directors
 Valerie Crawford, Ph.D., senior research scientist in SRI's Center for Technology in Learning, has been appointed to the Education Division board of directors of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA). This is Crawford's second one-year appointment to the SIIA Board.
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• New Director of Imaging for SRI's Biosciences Division
Steven Samuelsson, Ph.D., has joined SRI's Biosciences Division as director of imaging. He leads efforts in microscopy and imaging-based assays for drug discovery and development.
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Staff Profiles
Satomi Ouchi
Senior Manager of Business Development, SRI Japan
L. Lynn Voss
Software Engineering Program Manager at SRI in Helena, Montana
SRI in the News
- SRI's novel approach to harnessing power from ocean waves is profiled in The New York Times Magazine's December 9 edition.
- AIR Force Link and Technology News Daily reported in early October that the F-35 Lightning II, which rolls out in 2008, will be the first U.S. fighter aircraft with a speech recognition system that can respond to a pilot's spoken commands. The system is based on SRI's DynaSpeak(R) software.
- The Department of Energy announced on October 18 that SRI will develop and demonstrate an effective integrated monitoring solution to process control systems.
- The Arizona Daily Star reported on October 19 that Arizona's governor has presented the Critical Path Institute (C-Path), founded in 2005 by SRI, the University of Arizona, and the Food and Drug Administration, with an award for its work toward to move medical technologies more quickly to market.
- Drug Discovery and Development's November edition featured an article by Nathan Collins, executive director of SRI's Biosciences Division, about how contract research organizations (CROs) support drug discovery and R&D programs by providing complementary capabilities to a sponsor's in-house operations.
- MIT Technology Review, in a November 30 report, described the SRI-led CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) project and quoted SRI's Adam Cheyer in describing how artificial intelligence can help computers in understanding the intentions of human users.
- The San Francisco Chronicle reported on December 3 that an SRI study indicates that California teachers are now better qualified to teach than at any time in the last decade.
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