BBN Technologies

BBN Profile: Innovation that Matters
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Read about some of our current work in the tradition of tackling and solving the toughest problems.
ARPANET (PDF, 132k)
Meet Frank Heart, "Father of the ARPANET" and leader of the team that designed and deployed the packet switching network that evolved into the Internet.
The First Network Email (PDF, 104k)
Find out the true story behind the first email-as-we-know-it and what motivated inventor Ray Tomlinson.
BBN Timeline Through the Decades
Successes in Acoustics, Computer Science, Networking, Security, and Speech & Language Processing.

Please visit our Successes pages to learn about our honors and awards, publications, patents, and innovations.

BBN Technologies solves real problems through the creation and disciplined application of advanced technology. With expertise spanning information security, speech and language processing, networking, distributed systems, and sensing and control systems, BBN scientists and engineers have amassed a substantial collection of innovations and patented solutions.

Today, BBN is managing the planning and design of GENI, an advanced network facility spanning the United States; is saving lives in Iraq and Afghanistan with its Boomerang Shooter Detection System; operates the first metro quantum cryptography network; has deployed the first real-time foreign broadcast monitoring system; and is proving the benefits of the world's first stereoscopic digital mammography system in clinical trials.