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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Press conferences are given and military recruiting is done in virtual, online worlds. Related to this, one of my personal initiatives at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) is called Social Software for Security, or S3. One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0"

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. So we only had to raise $500,000 to get going and again hardware ate just over 10% of the round. Other Layers.

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