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KITTYCAD ANNOUNCES UPDATED API WITH HIGHLY ANTICIPATED GEOMETRY ENGINE CAPABILITIES

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KittyCAD, the world's only company to develop advanced tools for hardware design, announced today the release of first-ever geometry engine capabilities on their API. The KittyCAD API builds a bridge between hardware design, modern software, and machine learning, allowing others to build on top of these capabilities and develop solutions for their own visions.

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  • LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KittyCAD, the world's only company to develop advanced tools for hardware design, announced today the release of first-ever geometry engine capabilities on their API.
  • The KittyCAD API builds a bridge between hardware design, modern software, and machine learning, allowing others to build on top of these capabilities and develop solutions for their own visions.
  • Launched in July 2022, KittyCAD's API enables customers to develop fully integrated suites of hardware design products.
  • The financing series will allow KittyCAD access to funds to continue hiring engineering talent to develop advanced hardware design tools and infrastructure.

Vast Welcomes Veteran NASA Astronaut Garrett Reisman as Human Spaceflight Advisor

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023
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Vast, a pioneer in space habitation technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Garrett Reisman, a veteran NASA astronaut and accomplished space industry expert, as its newest advisor.

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  • Vast, a pioneer in space habitation technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Garrett Reisman, a veteran NASA astronaut and accomplished space industry expert, as its newest advisor.
  • With an impressive background in space exploration and extensive industry experience, Reisman brings invaluable expertise and strategic human spaceflight insights to Vast.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230711877592/en/
    Garrett Reisman, veteran NASA astronaut and Vast Human Spaceflight Advisor (Photo: Business Wire)
    After being selected by NASA as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998, Reisman flew on all three Space Shuttles.
  • As an advisor, Garrett Reisman will play a critical role in Vast’s strategic planning and growth, providing invaluable perspectives on human spaceflight, safety, and mission assurance.

Tech Alert: BrainChip Discusses Innovation and Opportunities in AI and Robotics with USC Professor Dr. Gaurav Sukhatme on the Latest ‘This is Our Mission’ Podcast

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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He joins BrainChip CMO, Nandan Nayampally, to discuss the fields of AI and robotics.

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  • He joins BrainChip CMO, Nandan Nayampally, to discuss the fields of AI and robotics.
  • The podcast will be available June 20 at 3 p.m. PDT on BrainChip’s website and across popular podcast platforms.
  • With more than three decades of experience in the field, Dr. Sukhatme is the co-director of the USC Robotics Research Laboratory and is the director of the USC Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory, which he founded in 2000.
  • He is a recognized expert in the fields of networked robots, learning robots and field robotics.

Tangram Flex awarded SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Contract

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Thursday, September 22, 2022
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Orbital Prime was created to accelerate the commercial ISAM market toward a use case of Active Debris Remediation.

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  • Orbital Prime was created to accelerate the commercial ISAM market toward a use case of Active Debris Remediation.
  • Tangram Flex is a product-driven software company that provides custom service and expertise in system modernization, integration, assurance, and autonomy.
  • SpaceWERX Orbital Prime leverages a diverse industry partnership engagement strategy to identify nascent space technology sectors that, if "primed", could advance U.S. national security and economic prosperity.
  • The first Space Prime effort, Orbital Prime will invigorate the In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) market using Active Debris Remediation (ADR) as a use case for the foundational technologies.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Pledges $3 Million Donation to USC Games Program

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022
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Today, USC Games , ranked the #1 North American games program by Princeton Review eleven years running, and Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced a multi-year partnership starting with a $3 million contribution to support the USC Games Gerald A. Lawson Fund with backing from the PlayStation Career Pathways Program.

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  • Today, USC Games , ranked the #1 North American games program by Princeton Review eleven years running, and Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced a multi-year partnership starting with a $3 million contribution to support the USC Games Gerald A. Lawson Fund with backing from the PlayStation Career Pathways Program.
  • The USC Games Lawson Fund is more than a scholarship, said Tiffany Johnson, senior director and global head of DE&I at Sony Interactive Entertainment.
  • USC Games is a flagship collaboration offered jointly by the USC School of Cinematic Arts Interactive Media & Games Division (IMGD) and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department .
  • The program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts focuses on both the design and production of interactive media and games.

Prysm Group Debuts at No. 451 on Inc. 5000 List, Fasting Growing in Corporate Learning

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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Prysm Group, a leading firm in economic consulting and executive education of emerging technologies, announces today it has been ranked No. 451 on Inc. Magazine's prestigious Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately owned companies in America. Founded in 2018, Prysm Group has achieved 1,378% growth over the last three years. Serving many of the country's organizations leading the adoption of emerging technologies, including Fortune 500s companies, Big Four accounting firms, venture-backed startups, and government agencies, Prysm Group has earned a reputation as a trusted source of information on how entities can identify, create, and capture value by adopting emerging technologies.

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  • Its debut on the list places the firm as the 37th fastest growing in the category of business products and services and the fastest growing focused on corporate learning.
  • MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Prysm Group, a leading firm in economic consulting and executive education of emerging technologies, announces today it has been ranked No.
  • 451 on Inc. Magazine's prestigious Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately owned companies in America.
  • According to Prysm Group Managing Partner Guido Molinari, the firm's online executive education offering will further boost the company's growth.

Agilent 2022 Early Career Professor Award Presented to Stefanos Nikolaidis

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced today that Stefanos Nikolaidis Ph.D. has received the Agilent 2022 Early Career Professor Award.

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  • Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced today that Stefanos Nikolaidis Ph.D. has received the Agilent 2022 Early Career Professor Award.
  • We are thrilled that Professor Nikolaidis has been recognized with the 2022 Agilent Early Career Professor Award, placing him as the preeminent early career faculty in the world in this area, said Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
  • Agilent is excited to leverage the prestigious Agilent Early Career Professor Award to support the development of intuitive collaborative robot technologies, said Dr. Nahid Chalyavi, Associate Vice President of University Relations and External Research at Agilent.
  • The Agilent Early Career Professor Award is an annual program that recognizes and supports promising research from professors who, early in their careers, show outstanding potential for future research in areas of importance to the communities Agilent serves.

Embedded Ventures and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Collaborate to Relaunch Project Payload

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Tuesday, April 5, 2022
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LOS ANGELES, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Embedded Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in dual-use space startups beyond launch, announced a collaboration with the USC Viterbi School of Engineering to reignite Project Payload, a program in which middle school-aged girls will authentically experience what it's actually like to have a career in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through the design of rockets, payloads, and satellites, along with programming. Participants in Project Payload's summer camp, taking place this July, will design, build and launch rockets and high-altitude balloon sensor devices at STARBASE in Los Alamitos, CA.

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  • A portion of the donation from Embedded Ventures will be made in honor of Summer Medford, a 2019 Project Payload alumna.
  • She even once said, "I only want to do rockets" while brainstorming how she wanted to spend her time on school break.
  • "We thank Embedded Ventures for their commitment to reviving Project Payload, helping to assist young women and girls achieve their dreams."
  • To learn more about Embedded Ventures, please visit its website , Medium , Twitter , Twitch and YouTube pages.

Tower Semiconductor Announces Breakthrough LiDAR Technology for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems

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Monday, September 13, 2021

Newport Beach, CA, September 13, 2021 - Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), the leading foundry for high-value analog semiconductor solutions, today announced a breakthrough development of LiDAR IC technology designed for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and ultimately self-driving cars. The new, innovative IC designed by researchers from the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering was led by SungWon Chung and manufactured using Tower Semiconductor’s industry-leading open foundry Silicon Photonics platform. It employs optical phased arrays – hundreds of compact optical antennas -- along with amplitude and phase modulators on a silicon chip for accurate 3D imaging of the surrounding environment without the need for any moving parts. Additionally, the field of view, resolution, scanning pattern, and scanning speed are all programmable, meaning that cars outfitted with this system can respond much better to real-world scenarios.

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  • Utilizing Towers advanced SiPho technology platform, innovation provides a compact solid-state electronically scanning LiDAR solution with superb performance
    Newport Beach, CA, September 13, 2021 - Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), the leading foundry for high-value analog semiconductor solutions, today announced a breakthrough development of LiDAR IC technology designed for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and ultimately self-driving cars.
  • This platform also offers high-performance elements necessary for high-precision LiDAR applications, such as low-loss silicon nitride waveguides capable of handling larger optical powers.
  • We are proud to collaborate on this innovative and fundamental breakthrough LiDAR technology which is a step towards making safe autonomous vehicles and robots a reality.
  • Tower believes that only through such pathbreaking scientific research today we can enable engineering solutions for tomorrow, said Dr. Ed Preisler, Director of RF & HPA Technology Development, Tower Semiconductor.

USC Students Travel to Greece to Develop Real-World Solutions to Refugee Crisis in World Premiere of New Documentary 'LIVES NOT GRADES' Presented by KCET

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Thursday, April 29, 2021
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Over the course of one year, students develop solutions that provide resources and innovations to empower displaced asylum-seekers, like improved sanitation, shelters, education, access to information, mental health and security.

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  • Over the course of one year, students develop solutions that provide resources and innovations to empower displaced asylum-seekers, like improved sanitation, shelters, education, access to information, mental health and security.
  • "\nThe film\'s director, Daniel Druhora, was also an instructor for the course at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering.
  • KCET showcases the best of PBS and is a leading source for arts, culture, and news in Southern California.
  • For additional information about both KCET and PBS SoCal productions, web-exclusive content, programming schedules and community events, please visit kcet.org and pbssocal.org.