Future Concepts division
With expertise across numerous areas, including developing solutions for a more sustainable world and creating a digital future for the workplace, the Future Concepts division puts a premium on developing integrated concepts for complex problems and driving and catalyzing collaboration across SRI. Our labs focus on basic research and real-world applications by creating and maturing breakthrough technologies.
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SRI relaunches the PARC Forum
The PARC Forum brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers for thought-provoking conversations at the intersection of technology, business, and society.
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SRI announces its new Future Concepts division — and a renewed focus for the PARC campus that draws on its heritage
The division will continue to thrive as a place where extraordinary people and ideas come together to bring technology into the world.
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Julie Bert: We consider from the earliest stages how to bring ideas into the world
The director of SRI’s Hardware Research & Technology Lab: “Our goal is to have impact on the world around us.”
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An SRI aerogel aims to sponge up CO2 from air and exhaust
A new sorbent could remove CO2 from ambient air better than other known materials and has the potential to lower the cost of carbon capture.
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SRI’s new paint provides a sustainable passive cooling solution
Researchers have developed self-cooling paint that reflects sunlight and radiates excess heat out into space.
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Anish Thukral: The ‘water cooler’ conversations at SRI are amazing
A climate research scientist explains why SRI is unlike other organizations.
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Ink-borne “chiplets” could lead to printable displays, electronics, and more
Researchers hope to lower the costs and barriers to advanced manufacturing with a new chiplet-filled ink that can be printed into integrated systems.