It’s always interesting to me to see the kind of technology being developed at local universities, which ends up channeled into (usually) obscure defense and government projects, but which could potentially be spectacular commercial applications. For example, I ran into a small USC spinoff a few months ago, Sentinal AVE, which develops software which can [...]
There’s interesting news out of one of the local high tech organizations serving the area today. Entretech, an economic development effort closely tied to Caltech, has added board members out of USC and UCLA. Krisztina Holly, who is Vice Provost and Executive Director of the new USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, and Kathryn Atchison, Vice [...]
I spent the morning at the University of Southern California Celebration of Innovation, the launch of the USC Stevens Institute, a new effort by the school to advance research and innovation–and hopefully bring that innovation to market. For those who aren’t familiar with the USC Stevens Institute, the new effort is the result of a [...]
We’re lucky in Southern California to have quite a few prominent universities and research institutions, where good technology gets spun out into great firms. Among the startups I’ve spoken to here recently, which were first academic projects are: Alelo is developing tactical language training systems–based on a video game platform and language recognition– being used [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
