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Algorithmia, Co-Founded By USC Grad Student, Gets $2.4M

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A new startup, Algorithmia , which was co-founded by a USC PhD student, said today that it has raised $2.4M in a seed funding round, to go towards its online marketplace for computer software algorithms. The company said Daniels specifically left the USC Ph.D. Algorithmia is based in Seattle. program to found Algorithmia.

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Wiki-based Tools for Software Engineering

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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.

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Bridging The Gap Between Students And Startups, With TechLA

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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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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3 But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. What Do We See From the Road Ahead?