All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

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.