Topic: BBN Technologies Inc.
In the 1960s, BBN Technologies, a research and development company here in this town dominated by MIT and Harvard, created the packet switch and ARPANET, and arguably got the Internet Age under way. The Boomerang III, a system designed to give combat ...
And now, for the first time, BBN's owner, the giant defense contractor Raytheon, is making public that it has developed--and put into the field--a shoulder-mounted version of Boomerang that allows combat soldiers on foot patrol the same kind of almost instantaneous ...
Raytheon's BBN Technologies unit receives 5-year, $81 million Army research contractRaytheon BBN Technologies, a research and development organization owned by defense contractor Raytheon Co., said Tuesday that it received an $81 million contract from the Army Research Laboratory.The contract, which ...
Defense contractor Raytheon is buying out BBN Technologies, a Cambridge, Mass., company that built for the Defense Department a computer network called Arpanet that was the forerunner of the modern Internet, reports The Boston Globe. BBN began with a focus on acoustics ...
What if the wisdom of Web could be yours, without having to read through it one page at a time? DARPA has hired a company to develop a reading machine to reduce the gap between the ever increasing mountain of digitized text ...
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For local translators who assist U.S. troops operating in other countries, the necessity of earning a paycheck often trumps a fear of being killed in a combat encounter. BBN's TransTalk consists of a speech-recognition engine, a machine translation engine and ...
Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: The search engine leverages decades' worth of speech-recognition research at MIT and other institutions to convert audio into text and ...
Internet Pioneer to Oversee Its Redesign Under Government ContractA government contractor that played a key role in the Internet's birth will oversee efforts to redesign the network from scratch.The National Science Foundation announced Monday that BBN Technologies Inc. will get ...
- A government contractor that played a key role in the Internet's birth will oversee efforts to redesign the network from scratch.. The National Science Foundation announced Monday that BBN Technologies Inc. will get up to $10 million (euro7.5 million) over ...