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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

The Alliance estimates that Southern California’s tech community could be one-third the size of Silicon Valley’s by supporting or further developing the six pillars it already has for innovation to occur.

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

Leonard Kleinrock and a few of his UCLA computer lab students worked to send the first several text characters from UCLA to Stanford in 1969 over a direct line established for the test. We can’t help but be amazed by the rapid developments in artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence (AGI). That was Charles H.

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Carbonics: Seeking The Future In Carbon Nanomaterials

socalTECH

in a venture funding round, to transform carbon nanomaterials research from UCLA and USC and bring it to market. Can you talk about where this technology was developed? Kos Galatsis: I''m from UCLA, and the other startup professor is from USC. What can you tell us about Carbonics and its technology? READ MORE>>.

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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns

SoCal Delicious

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. UCLA doesn’t aim to make a financial return. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. An example of that is the UCLA flood. So, he launched Watsup, and the first thing it showed was a highlight of the UCLA flooding.

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Interview with Woolas Hsieh and Dina Lozofsky, Solarmer Energy

socalTECH

Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. We refer to them as plastic solar panels.

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