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| industry        = ICT Industry
| industry        = ICT Industry
| founded        = 1940
| founded        = 1940
| founders        = [[Richard Bolt]] <br> [[Leo Beranek]]
| founders        = [[Richard Bolt]] <br> [[Leo Beranek]] <br> [[Robert Newman]]
| ownership      =  
| ownership      =  
| headquarters    = 10 Moulton Street Cambridge, MA 02138
| headquarters    = 10 Moulton Street Cambridge, MA 02138

Revision as of 21:50, 8 January 2012


Type: Public
Industry: ICT Industry
Founded: 1940
Founder(s): Richard Bolt
Leo Beranek
Robert Newman
Headquarters: 10 Moulton Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Country: USA
Website: www.bbn.com
Key People
Robert G. Elmer, President

BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman) now Raytheon BBN Technologies is one of the leading Research and Development companies in the United States dedicated in providing high-technology products and services to consumers. The company specializes in speech recognotion technologies, cyber security, advanced networking, sensor systems and information & knowledge technologies. BBN was one of the research companies involved in the development of ARPANET, which became the internet. The company was known for developing the packet switching, the first network e-mail and the first router.[1] Robert G. Elmer serves as president of the company and its' main office is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

History

MIT professor Richard Bolt and Leo Boranek together with Robert Newman, Bolt's former student co-founded an acoustic consulting firm in 1948. The first project of the company was the acoustic design for the United Nations Assembly Hall in 1949.

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