Raytheon will be working on this project with the Sierra Nevada Corporation, the University of Arizona, and SRI International.
Both companies were spun out of the research institute SRI International.
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Siri, the iPhone 4S's voice, grew from a five-year research project that was funded by military agency DARPA and led by SRI International, a Bay Area research institute.
Other California KIPP schools showed the same pattern in my research, confirmed and amplified by a study of the Bay Area KIPP schools by the research organization SRI International.
Also illustrating this need, SRI International, makers of Siri on Apple iOS, recently partnered with UK based startup, Summly, to create a mobile app that gives access to summarized versions of select news articles.
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Institutions involved include Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, SRI International, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Boston University, Burnham Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Chicago, and the Institute for Systems Biology.
The technology, which included an algorithm for deriving the summaries, was created with help from SRI International, a Silicon Valley research-and development firm that has an artificial-intelligence lab and has an ownership stake in the startup.
The Sri Lankan branch of the anti-corruption group Transparency International reviewed Sri Lanka's record on the fifth anniversary of the tsunami.
The Australians suffered their sixth successive defeat on Wednesday when they lost by one-wicket in a one-day international against Sri Lanka.
In a rain-hit one-day international, Sri Lanka scored 213-3 in 41.1 overs leaving Australia a Duckworth-Lewis adjusted target of 244 from 39 overs.
Australia have lost a Test against Pakistan, two Tests and a one-day international against India, with two washed out, plus a Twenty20 and the opening one-day international with Sri Lanka.
Murali has been out of action with a shoulder injury, forcing him to miss the ICC Champions Trophy in September and the triangular one-day international tournament Sri Lanka are currently playing in Pakistan.
They are without Mike Hussey, Shaun Marsh and Mitchell Johnson, who are in Australia's one-day squad for the current one-day international series against Sri Lanka.
On Wednesday the UN Security Council, which had been accused of inaction, called on the Tamil Tigers to lay down their arms and urged the Sri Lankan government to allow international aid agencies into areas of need.
Late last year the International Press Institute put Sri Lanka on its watch-list of countries where the media's situation is precarious, along with Russia.
Prince, 32, who spent the first half of the 2009 season at Old Trafford, will fill the void left by Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara's international commitments.
Named after his son who works with him, Varun Beverages has 10 bottling plants in India plus an international footprint that includes Sri Lanka, Nepal, Morocco, Mozambique and Zambia.
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Frances Harrison, author of the book Still Counting the Dead on the last months of the war, told the BBC "the only way now for Ban Ki-moon to restore the UN's tattered credibility on Sri Lanka is to call an independent international investigation into the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in 2009".
But 18-year-old Kapugedera, a makeshift opener because of an injury crisis in the Sri Lanka camp, impressed with a maiden international fifty.
Foreign exchange reserves may become strained as "Sri Lanka will be hard pressed to keep international reserves at the pre-tsunami level" which totalled more than two months worth of imports.
The England selectors will name a squad on Wednesday for a Twenty20 International and five one-dayers against Sri Lanka.
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New Zealand and Sri Lanka had planned to play the first Twenty20 international but the tour was cut short because of the tsunami disaster.
The main international observance was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
According to a study by Frank Rijsberman, director-general of the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka, improving the delivery of clean water and sanitation to the poor would be a highly cost-effective way to use additional aid to developing countries.
Whatmore's greatest moment as an international coach came in 1996 when he led Sri Lanka to World Cup glory.
America's government has accepted a petition from an international trade union to review worker rights in Sri Lanka as part of its own GSP scheme.
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Four years later, Canada reached the final of the first International Cricket Conference Trophy, only to be beaten by Sri Lanka.
Having completed a 4-2 one-day series win in India, the world champions host Sri Lanka for two Tests in November, followed by a Twenty20 international and three 50-over one-day internationals against New Zealand.
He struggled on India's recent tour to Australia but said that had no bearing on his decision to call time on an international career that began in Singapore with a match against Sri Lanka in April 1996.
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