SRI

65 years of looking at the stars! ✨

SRI's iconic Dish antenna, lasting well beyond its original lifespan, is celebrating over 6 decades of space exploration, defense, and communications — contributing to missions that tracked solar wind; analyzed the surfaces of the Moon, Venus, and Mars ahead of NASA landings; and recently supported NASA’s InSight mission to Mars by communicating with CubeSats over a million miles away.

Read more about the Dish's legacy: https://bit.ly/4wbmX5X

AI agents are negotiating, transacting, and delegating at machine speed. But without a trust layer, organizations have no way to prove what's true.

Zerker Labs, our newest SRI spinout, is building cryptographic verification infrastructure for AI agents. Built on SRI's trusted OLIVE platform — hardened through DARPA programs and deployed across U.S. defense, intelligence, and commercial sectors — Zerker gives every AI agent action a cryptographic receipt that anyone can verify.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4fvdQb8

The New York Times talks with SRI's Dimitra Vergyri ahead of Apple’s developer conference today to unveil a long-awaited overhaul of Siri, which was developed at SRI. The initial digital assistant inspired SRI researchers to create Siri in 2008, which Apple acquired in 2010.

“The vision was to have an assistant that can help you navigate the digital world, your activities, your interactions,” said Dimitra Vergyri, President of Information and Computing Sciences at SRI.

Today's announcement marks Apple's biggest AI push yet.
Read more: https://nyti.ms/4um0ktY

At this week's PARC Forum, QED-C® executive director Celia Merzbacher joined Nobel laureate John M. Martinis to discuss innovation and the road to scalable quantum systems, emerging real-world applications, and more.

Watch the replay: https://bit.ly/4dOKx1Z

It's almost time!

June us this Wednesday, June 3 in Palo Alto or online in a conversation with Nobel laureate John M. Martinis and QED-C® executive director, Celia Merzbacher. They'll discuss:

✴️ The current state of the quantum ecosystem

✴️ Applications in the commercial market - beyond quantum computing

✴️ Manufacturing at scale — what a quantum-capable supply chain looks like & who is building it

✴️ The new wild west: startups, consortiums, VCs, government agencies, and big industry

Spots left are limited. Register: https://hubs.ly/Q04dWMFT0

We're thrilled to announce Dimitra Vergyri as President of SRI's Information and Computing Sciences Division!

With 25 years at SRI and deep expertise in AI and speech technology, Vergyri brings her robust expertise to ICS — home to pioneering work in deepfake detection, neurosymbolic AI, autonomous systems, and the lab that brought us Siri.

Join us in congratulating Dimitra!