Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
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Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
#2Will this mean that PARC will transition towards doing more government funded research? SRI is pretty heavily funded by the government as far as I know.
Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
#3As a software engineer since the 1980s, of course I know (Xerox) PARC. But am I the only one for whom SRI does not ring any bells? I'm confident Wikipedia can tell me more, but if they don't tell in their press release I would claim they might overestimate their "brand".
Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
#4As a software engineer since the 1980s, of course I know (Xerox) PARC. But am I the only one for whom SRI does not ring any bells? I'm confident Wikipedia can tell me more, but if they don't tell in their press release I would claim they might overestimate their "brand".
IIRC basically a Pentagon funded think tank in Silicon Valley, though their best days were really the 1970s and 1980s.
Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
#5As a software engineer since the 1980s, of course I know (Xerox) PARC. But am I the only one for whom SRI does not ring any bells? I'm confident Wikipedia can tell me more, but if they don't tell in their press release I would claim they might overestimate their "brand".
SRI was one of the original nodes of the ARPAnet, and was one of the two nodes to first come online (the other was at UCLA).
SRI is also where the “Mother of all Demos” came from.
Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
#6As a software engineer since the 1980s, of course I know (Xerox) PARC. But am I the only one for whom SRI does not ring any bells? I'm confident Wikipedia can tell me more, but if they don't tell in their press release I would claim they might overestimate their "brand".
SRI is Stanford Research Institute, which was established by the trustees of Stanford University in 1946 [0]
Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
#7As a software engineer since the 1980s, of course I know (Xerox) PARC. But am I the only one for whom SRI does not ring any bells? I'm confident Wikipedia can tell me more, but if they don't tell in their press release I would claim they might overestimate their "brand".
Douglas Englebart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos) worked there in the 60s. They were one of the very first sites on the Internet. Lots of highly technical research has been done there over the decades.
Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
#8As a software engineer since the 1980s, of course I know (Xerox) PARC. But am I the only one for whom SRI does not ring any bells? I'm confident Wikipedia can tell me more, but if they don't tell in their press release I would claim they might overestimate their "brand".
SRI is Stanford Research Institute, which was established by the trustees of Stanford University in 1946 [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International
But, just as with IBM and NCR, “SRI” is now just a 3-letter non-acronym, that officially doesn’t stand for anything.
Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
#9As a software engineer since the 1980s, of course I know (Xerox) PARC. But am I the only one for whom SRI does not ring any bells? I'm confident Wikipedia can tell me more, but if they don't tell in their press release I would claim they might overestimate their "brand".
SRI is Stanford Research Institute, which was established by the trustees of Stanford University in 1946 [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International
Does SRI still stand for "Stanford Research Institute"? I thought it was just an acronym since it separated from the university, as described in your wikipedia link:
> SRI formally separated from Stanford University in 1970 and became known as SRI International in 1977
Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
#10As a software engineer since the 1980s, of course I know (Xerox) PARC. But am I the only one for whom SRI does not ring any bells? I'm confident Wikipedia can tell me more, but if they don't tell in their press release I would claim they might overestimate their "brand".
SRI is Stanford Research Institute, which was established by the trustees of Stanford University in 1946 [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International
As predicted I found the information myself in Wikipedia. Of course everbody knows Stanford, although I couldn't tell the difference between the university and the research institute. As an IT person (Xerox) PARC remains the iconic one, even if it was a business failure for Xerox.