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JANUARY 20, 2016

Virtual reality hardware and software developer Jaunt --which is backed by The Walt Disney Company, Evolution Media Partners, China Media Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Axel Springer, ProSiebenSat.1

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The effort is applying language analysis and language software from IBM to try to distinguish positive and negative tweets about films, actors, and actresses, to predict the possible winners of an Oscar.

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

Lookout , a firm developing security software for mobile phones and started by two recent USC graduates, has raised $5.5M in a funding , according to the New York Times this morning. According to the Times, the firm raised the new round of funding this month from Khosla Ventures.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Because the event was scheduled during Trojan Family Weekend, a weekend where parents and family from all over the nation come visit the USC campus, the event was filled with curious family members. He closed by saying, “We want USC to be a place where students and faculty come, and startups, innovation, and entrepreneurship are encouraged.”.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Friday, February 11, 2011 -- Wiki-based Tools for Software Engineering. For the past several years, USC's Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) has been using tools hosted on the MediaWiki engine, or Wiki-based tools, to support its activities. The tools are related project scoping and management activities.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Los Angeles-based Qulab , a biopharmaceuticals startup developing artifical intelligence software aimed at small molecule drug design, said on Wednesday that it has launched its first product, Quleap. He also attended USC's Viterbi School of Engineering as a Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Armorway , a tartup that uses "game theory" and big data information to plan out security scheduling, says its software is being used by the Federal Air Marshal Service and U.S. Armorway is led by Zare Baghdasarian, and says it comes out of USC itself, built on research funded by the Department of Homeland Security.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Angel City Data has deployed over 2,000 custom desktop, web and mobile software solutions for clients such as Apple, Disney, Warner Bros., Harvard, Caltech, UCLA, USC, the BBC, and NASA. The City of Burbank, in partnership with TechFire is featuring a Burbank tech success story, Angel City Data's Founder and President, David Knight.

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MARCH 6, 2012

El Segundo-based Fetch Technologies , the developer of data aggregation and analysis software which was a spinout of USC's Information Sciences Institute, has been sold to New Jersey-based Connotate. According to Connotate, former Fetch CEO Ryan Mullholland becomes President of the firm with the acquisition.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

Friedmam is a PhD from UCLA in Electric Engineering, and who has been a postdoc at both USC and its Information Sciences Institute. CircuitHub's component library runs with a variety of popular electronics layout and CAD software programs. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Santa Monica-based Image Metrics , a developer of facial animation technology, announced Thursday morning that it has acquired Big Stage , the developer of avatar creation software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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JUNE 14, 2013

The new startup, headed by startup veteran Richard Koffler, said it will focus on biomedical devices and software.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Los Angeles-based Alelo , the USC spinout which uses computer game technology to teach foreign languages, said this week that the firm has been awarded a contract from the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Tags: alelo videogame content australian defence force language teaching defense contract software. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). Dev Bhatia , SRCH2 (Irvine, search engine software). Isaac Garcia , Central Desktop (Pasadena, software). John Jersin , Connectifier (Newport Beach, recruiting software). Jason Koch , Telogis (Irvine, fleet tracking software).

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based Alelo , which develops computer software that uses video games to teach language and culture training for Iraqi and other languages, reported late Friday that it has received a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for a handheld training system.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Los Angeles-based Language Weaver , a developer of automated language translation software, is expanding its efforts to tap the online translation market, saying that it is in a strategic partnership with WorldLingo Translations. Tags: language weaver translation software online. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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MARCH 25, 2011

Sponsored by the Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds and The Institute for Software Research. He will use the example of PrimeEngine PC/XBox360 framework that was built in the USC GamePipe classes. Speaker: Artem Kovalovs, Gameplay programmer at Visceral Games, Electronic Arts, Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. The second, which involves a lot of people, is building awareness at universities--notably, USC and UCLA. Here, if you look at a school like USC, it''s just a long way from Santa Monica. One, led by Todd Gitlin, is getting companies to post internships.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Alelo , a USC spinout developing foreign language and culture training tools, said this week that it has opened an office in Suffolk, Virginia. The firm said the new office was opened to better serve government customers interested in its products. The new center is in the Virginia Model and Simulation Center (VMASC).

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MARCH 11, 2011

What kind of software can people buy from your app store? Matthew Smith: We are currently building out relationships with developers and publishers, but we cater to all genres of software, both commercial and free. So, let's make something optimized to manage their software lifestyle across all of their PCs.

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APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. Apps & Software Entrepreneurship Startups'

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APRIL 4, 2013

It''s much like a sales team might use software to find leads. When we arrived at USC, we began to talk about how we struggled during the recruiting process. Our coaches did not have relationships, and I ended up walking onto the USC baseball team, and Kai ended up walking onto their club lacrosse team.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Despite the widespread impact of software today on our lives, there are a number of areas of computer science research which have had a difficult time in being translated into practical, every day usage. Tell us what ArmorWay''s software is all about, and what it''s used for? You can''t do it in real time. That''s where our niche is.

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JULY 1, 2013

I then started another project, based on an invention out of the USC biomedical engineering department, a company developing an ultrasound device used for cardiac monitoring. Finally, I started a third project out of the USC Keck School of Medicine, using software to optimize drug dosages for individuals.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based Alelo , the USC spinout which is applying gaming technology to help teach languages and cultures to both the military and civilians, said last week that it has added Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, III , to its board.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

During planning of the fifth year, Scott Kilroy from the USC LUG and Lei Zhang from the UCLA LUG approached him about throwing a joint effort; pooling their talents to put together the first SCaLE. Hosted at the USC Davidson Conference Center, it was initially a one-day event with just 20 speakers and two tracks.

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JULY 22, 2014

We spent a morning talking about the transition from being an engineer to being an entrepreneur, having the distinction of being the first digital health startup to emerge from USC Viterbi’s Startup Garage , and drilling down to what really matters in all of our entrepreneurial efforts – listening to consumers. This was run out of USC?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Los Angeles-based Alelo, the USC spinout which is developing "serious" games to teach languages and cultures, has scored a contract with the Voice of America. The firm's software has so far been applied to Chinese, Iraqi, Pashto, and Dari. READ MORE>>

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

a global consulting and software services powerhouse. Friday, November 7, 2008 -- Meet the Innovator: Mr. Shibulal, Co-Founder and COO of Infosys. SD Shibulal is the Chief Operating Officer and one of the seven co-founders of Infosys Technologies, Ltd. -

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AUGUST 26, 2016

Lior Elazary: We started at USC, working on various robotics related products. After USC, I wanted to do a startup robotics company, and looked at various parts of the market to figure out which are right for a robotics solution. Where did the technology come from? Lior Elazary: The biggest challenge is cost effectiveness.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Big Stage is a spinout of technology from USC, originally developed for the CIA. The firm's software allows users to upload photos to create their own, 3-D avatars, which can then be inserted into online greeting cards, scenes from movies, photos, and other media.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

Walter Grieves: We partnered with USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Anderson, Annenberg Center, we have an internship program. Digital content is the software of Los Angeles. What's the mix of your clients? Walter Grieves: We have 20 percent entertainment and about 50 percent tech startups.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017? Z is known for curating and hosting the first ever TEDx (TEDxUSC) in 2009 and founding two innovation centers at MIT and USC. Listeners can subscribe on iTunes or their favorite podcast player. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. When you go to USC, you don’t need a job. Marks: Mostly it was in understanding how software is built. It is because you are talented.”

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MARCH 1, 2017

The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA. In the last couple ofyears, we've seen more enterprise technology and software locally here, and software is starting to grow up. I think that is a big strength for us.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. We spoke with Daniel Altman, the CEO of the company, to learn more. Tell us a little bit about your background and the company?

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