Stanford Research Institute

The Stanford Research Institute was created in 1946 and was part of Stanford University The institute formally separated from Stanford University in 1970 as a result of student protests about classified, military and counterinsurgency research on campus in the context of the Vietnam war. It became known as SRI International in 1977.

Resources

• Carlson, Curtis R. and William W. Wilmot (2006). Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want. New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-33669-9.
• Gibson, Weldon B. (1986). SRI: The Take-Off Days. Los Altos, California: Stanford Research Institute. ISBN 0-86576-103-5.
• Gibson, Weldon B. (1980). SRI: The Founding Years. Los Altos, California: Stanford Research Institute. ISBN 0-913232-80-7.
• Lento, Thomas V (2006). Inventing the Future: 60 Years of Innovation at Sarnoff. Princeton, New Jersey: Sarnoff Corporation. ISBN 0-9785463-0-X.
• Lowen, Rebecca (July–August 1997). 'Exploiting a Wonderful Opportunity'. Stanford Magazine (Stanford Alumni Association).
• Nielson, Donald (2006). A Heritage of Innovation: SRI's First Half Century. Menlo Park, California: SRI International. ISBN 978-0-9745208-1-0.
• Stuart W. Leslie, Excerpt from Chapter 9. The Days of Reckoning: March 4 and April 3 in The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford by 1993, Columbia University Press, New York.