Raytheon BBN Technologies
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| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | ICT Industry |
| Founded: | 1940 |
| Founder(s): | Richard Bolt Leo Beranek |
| 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.