SRI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute that conducts client-supported research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses and nonprofit foundations. To help bring its innovations to the marketplace, SRI licenses its technologies and creates new ventures. From our beginnings as the Stanford Research Institute in 1946, our strengths have been our staff's world-class expertise and their passion for working with clients on important challenges. SRI is well known for its innovations in information technology, communications, engineering, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, physics, and for studying the public policy areas of education, health, and economic development.