SRI International Digest #6, Winter 2003

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWS:
  • SRI and Consortium Promote Cybersecurity R&D
  • Network Security Monitoring Patent Issued
  • New Speech Recognition Software Available
  • SRI Performs Combat Training System Integration for National Guard and Delivers "DFIRST"
• BIOSCIENCES AND BIOINFORMATICS NEWS:
  • SRI Announces HumanCyc
  • Major New NIMH Contract
  • Oncology Drug Licensed to Allos Therapeutics
  • NCI Selects SRI Breast Cancer Therapeutic
• AUTOMATION NEWS:
  • New Patent for "Frictionless Transport" Technology
• EDUCATION NEWS:
  • SRI Evaluates Impact of Ubiquitous Computing in Classrooms
  • New Book Examines the "Virtual High School"
  • Charter Schools Evaluated
• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS:
  • U.S. Golf Economy Measures $62 Billion, Says New SRI Report
• STAFF NEWS
• EVENTS
• SRI IN THE NEWS

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWS
SRI and Consortium Promote Cybersecurity R&D: The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), a consortium of 23 security research institutions including SRI, is encouraging the U.S. government and private companies to increase cybersecurity research and development by focusing on technology for vulnerability scanners and for the scanning of individual computers for attack sources. Read more at http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/ security/story/0,10801,78024,00.htmlM.

SRI Receives Network Security Monitoring Patent: An SRI-developed technology for defense against "cyber-attacks" has received a fundamental U.S. patent. SRI's technology includes both distributed sensors that continuously monitor for such intrusions and consolidated alerts for analysis and action. More information: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/12-16-02.html

New Speech Recognition Software for Computer-Based Education Tools: SRI announced EduSpeak 2.0, a speech recognition toolkit designed for use in language learning, reading development, and corporate training software programs. EduSpeak is available for licensing; the toolkit is available for evaluation. More information: http://www.eduspeak.com. Read the press release: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/12-09-02b.html

Combat Training System Integration for the California Army National Guard: SRI has been awarded a $3M contract to develop a Congressionally supported initiative, the "Joint Training Experimentation Program" (JTEP), a combat readiness training system for the California Army National Guard that integrates live battle exercises with computer-based simulators. More information: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/12-02-02.html

Related news: SRI Delivers "DFIRST" Armored Warfare Training System for the Kentucky Army National Guard. DFIRST is an SRI-developed component of the JTEP project described above. More information: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/11-04-02.html

BIOSCIENCES and BIOINFORMATICS NEWS
SRI Announces HumanCyc: Available in Spring 2003, HumanCyc, a first-of-its-kind database devoted to the analysis of human metabolic pathways, is the newest offering in SRI's BioCyc(TM) pathway/genome knowledge library. HumanCyc gives researchers greater understanding of biological processes and fosters improved scientific collaboration. More information: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/02-10-03.html

Major New NIMH Contract: The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded SRI a multi-year, $6.1M contract to perform NIMH's preclinical safety and pharmacokinetics studies for brain imaging agents and central nervous system drugs. SRI also conducts the NIMH's Chemical Synthesis and Drug Supply Program. More information: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/01-27-03.html

Oncology Drug Licensed to Allos Therapeutics: Together with collaborators, SRI has licensed to Allos Therapeutics, Inc. exclusive worldwide rights for PDX, a proprietary Phase II oncology drug that shows promise for the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer. More information about SRI's biopharmaceutical capabilities: http://www.sri.com/biosciences/. Read the press release: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/01-08-03.html

Breast Cancer Therapeutic Selected by NCI: The National Cancer Institute has selected a novel SRI-discovered breast cancer treatment agent for its RAID (Rapid Access to Intervention Development) program, which will accelerate further preclinical development of the drug candidate to determine its efficacy against hormone-dependent breast cancer. Read the press release: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/12-11-02.html

AUTOMATION NEWS
New Patent for "Frictionless Transport" Technology: SRI has received a second patent for a frictionless transport technology based on the principles of diamagnetic levitation. The system provides stable, frictionless transport for use in ultra-clean manufacturing environments. Read the press release: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/12-05-02.html

EDUCATION NEWS
SRI Evaluates Impact of Ubiquitous Computing in Classrooms: The National Science Foundation has awarded SRI a three-year, $1.1 million grant to evaluate the impact of "ubiquitous" computing in K-12 classrooms. Visit the project website: http://ubiqcomputing.org/. Read the press release: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/02-03-03.html

New Book Examines the "Virtual High School": What is it like to teach or learn from an online course? A new book by SRI researchers, “The Virtual High School: Teaching Generation V”, answers this and other questions about the virtual high school, a quickly growing education trend. More about the book: http://store.tcpress.com/0807742864.shtml#723.
Read the press release: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/12-16-02b.html

Charter Schools Evaluated: An SRI-led team of researchers recently reported on the characteristics of U.S. charter schools and documented the movement's evolution. The assessment marks the first national study of its kind on this movement. The complete report is available at http://www.sri.com/policy/cep/choice/yr2.pdf.
Read the press release: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/12-09-02.html

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS
U.S. Golf Economy Measures $62 Billion, Says New SRI Report: The golf economy is significant, accounting for more than $62 billion worth of goods and services in the year 2000, according to a new SRI report for the World Golf Foundation, sponsor of the GOLF 20/20 initiative to grow the sport. Read the press release: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/11-14-02.html

STAFF NEWS
Enrique Ruspini, noted artificial intelligence researcher, was elected to the IEEE Board of Directors: http://www.sri.com/news/releases/11-18-02.html

George Abrahamson, long-time SRI staff member, former Chief Scientist to the U.S. Air Force, and SRI Alumni Association co-founder, wins first SRI Presidential Achievement Award: http://www.sri.com/about/awards/president.html

EVENTS
SRI's Biosciences group exhibits at the Society of Toxicology meeting in Salt Lake City, March 9-13, and at the American Association for Cancer Research 94th Annual Meeting on April 5-9 in Toronto. More about SRI Biosciences: http://www.sri.com/biosciences

SRI’s Microsystems Engineering Center will showcase SRI’s microsystem and nanotech capabilities at Hannover Fair, April 7-12 in Hannover, Germany. More information: Contact Thor Osborn, thor.osborn@sri.com

SRI IN THE NEWS
Technology Review, March 2003: "Can Sensemaking Make Us Safe?", discusses intelligence software designed to find meaning in the 'chaos of clues' scattered throughout data-saturated networks to help unravel terrorist plots before they happen. The article includes an interview with John Lowrance, who directs SRI's Structured Evidential Argumentation System (SEAS) program. See the article at http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/ waldrop0303.asp?p=0 (free registration required)

Mechanical Engineering, December 2002: "Hot Stuff: Advanced materials are moving out of the lab and into the commercial world" includes information on SRI's electroactive polymer "artificial muscle" technology.

San Francisco Business Times, Jan. 17, 2003: "Research Lab Buys into Bio", describes how SRI is changing the way biotech companies and investors bring drugs to market. See the article at http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/ stories/2003/01/20/story2.html

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