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Montauk Buys Caltech IP

L.A. Business Journal

Montauk Technologies has secured intellectual property rights from Caltech for technologies that can help first responders, miners and underwater workers locate humans and objects when GPS falls short.

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Tribute To Caltech's Larry Gilbert, Founder of Tech Transfer Office

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Larry Gilbert , the founder of the technology transfer program at Caltech , passed away in November in Florida, Caltech said this week, with a tribute to Gilbert's efforts at the school. Gilbert was the "founding father of technology transfer" at Caltech, according to the school, forming the Office of Technology Transfer in 1995.

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Caltech Scientists's Kickstarter Project: Nanoart

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Here's an interesting Kickstarter project looking for some (crowd) funding: a Caltech scientist is looking to raise $50,000 to create "nanoart".

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Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Entertainment

SoCal Tech Calendar

Saturday, February 25, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Entertainment. Southern California is still the home of Hollywood -- the symbolic name for the motion picture industry, but that industry has changed dramatically in recent years. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technology-startups-go-to-the-movies-tickets-31210790314?

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Caltech Team Wins Top Prize, $100K In Bill Gates' Toilet Tech Effort

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Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, announced an effort to help advance the technology of toilets, saying that current flush technology is "irrelevant, impractical and impossible for 40 percent of the global population". The Caltech team won the top prize for its solar-powered toilet that generates hydrogen and electricity.

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RivetAI Targets Hollywood With AI Tools

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Can artificial intelligence help Hollywood unlock more creativity from storytellers? Los Angeles-based RivetAI hopes it can, saying Thursday that it has launched to apply artificial intelligence technology to help assist storytellers in planning and producing content. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Thomas Russell, ETC Solar, Improving Solar Cell Efficiency

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We spoke with Thomas on how the company's technology was spun out of Caltech, and why the startup believes the solar cell industry needs its technology. Thomas Russell: We're a spinout of Caltech, out of the labs of Professor Harry Atwater. While I was working at Caltech we invented this technology. What does ETC Solar do?

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