Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.

In 1981 Carlson was named the Director of the Image Quality and Perception Research Group and Vice President of the laboratory in 1990. Carlson is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Sigma Xi Tau Beta Pi and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. S.

Sommers. Schade Award in 2006. Curtis Raymond Carlson (born 1945) is the president and CEO of SRI International and a prominent technologist.