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{{Infobox company
| name = BBN Technologies
| logo = Raytheon BBN.png
| logo_size = 220px
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| parent = [[Raytheon]]
| location = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], [[United States|US]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1948}}
| founder = [[Leo Beranek]] and [[Richard Bolt]]
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.bbn.com}}
}}
[[File:US_Navy_100916-N-8848T-351_Dr._Talib_Hussain,_senior_scientist_at_BBN_Technologies,_looks_over_the_shoulder_of_a_recruit_during_a_training_session.jpg|thumb|Dr. Talib Hussain, senior scientist at BBN Technologies, looks over the shoulder of a recruit during a training session on the Virtual Environments for Ship and Shore Experiential Learning system at Recruit Training Command.]]
'''BBN Technologies''' (originally '''Bolt, Beranek and Newman''') is an American high-technology company which provides research and development services. BBN is based next to [[Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts|Fresh Pond]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], [[United States|USA]]. It is a [[military contractor]], primarily for [[DARPA]], and also known for its 1978 acoustical analysis for the [[United States House Select Committee on Assassinations|House Select Committee]] on the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Science_and_Technology/DARPA/11-F-1396_DARPA_Funded_Grants_FY2005-FY2010.pdf |title=DARPA funded grants 2005-2010 |accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref> BBN of the 1950s and 1960s has been referred to by two of its alumni as the "third university" of Cambridge, after MIT and Harvard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/09/02/bbns-long-search-for-a-home-endsat-home/2/|date=2009-09-02|accessdate=2013-01-03|title=40 Years After Sparking the Internet, BBN’s Long Search for a Home Ends…At Home}}, quoting ''Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet'' by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon (1998)</ref> In 1966, the [[Franklin Institute]] awarded the firm the [[Frank P. Brown Medal]].
[[Ray Tomlinson]] of BBN Technologies is widely credited as having invented email in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/ray_tomlinson.html|title=The Father of Email}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://internethalloffame.org/official-biography-raymond-tomlinson|title=Official Biography: Raymond Tomlinson}}</ref> BBN Technologies registered the ''bbn.com'' domain on April 24, 1985, making it the second oldest domain name on the internet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://whois.domaintools.com/bbn.com|title=Whois Record for BBN.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://interwebs.top5.com/then-and-now-5-oldest-domain-names/|title=Then And Now: 5 Oldest Domain Names}}</ref> BBN became a wholly owned subsidiary of [[Raytheon]] in 2009. On February 1, 2013, BBN Technologies was awarded the [[National Medal of Technology and Innovation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/12/21/president-obama-honors-nation-s-top-scientists-and-innovators|accessdate=2013-02-11|title=President Obama Honors Nation’s Top Scientists and Innovators}}</ref>
==History==
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