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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

Leonard Kleinrock is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. After we typed the first two letters from our computer room at UCLA, namely, “Lo” for “Login,” the network crashed. On the one hand, it has led to valuable services of great value.

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Stage 32: An Education Hub For Entertainment Industry Creatives

Tech.Co

by providing cutting-edge online education to a global population of people looking to make it in the ever-evolving entertainment industry. There’s a community feel even to our education. And the ability to bring education to the world has been our intention from day one.”. Educating the next generation of media talent.

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TX Zhuo Talks About LA's Newest Venture Fund, Karlin Ventures

socalTECH

Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. If you walk down the hallways of UCLA or USC, and ask them for the successful startups here, they can't name anyone. TX Zhuo: Someone on our team will try to respond to every email. That's something we need to change.

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Interview with Cramster.com

socalTECH

Aaron Hawkey: Cramster is an online study community, built around students and educational subjects. I was an electrical engineer, and had a tough time at UCLA getting access to resources I needed. Editor's note: Shai Reshef is the firm's angel investor, and sold his last company to educational firm Kaplan).

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

socalTECH

Healthcare is a really obvious vertical, where there is data inefficiency and a tremendous amount of opportunity, but there''s also education, human capital and talent. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. What do you see in the technology area that made you want to focus there?

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

Tech Zulu Event

Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. The app was mainly to educate people what was going on in the world. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. TB: Well we went to UCLA and loved the weather here!

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Don’t: tell us, “and now I enter my name, and then I put in my email address, and then I can pull in my social graph through Facebook Connect, and then then I can select the button here to Tweet out my actions on Twitter.&# Zzzzzzzzz.

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