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Erick Miller & Peter Brook, Vergence Labs: Creating Super Powers

Nima Adelkhani — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:00:24 +0000

Erick Miller CEO Vergence Labs has over a decade of professional experience altering reality using 3D computer graphics and photo-realistic visual effects at companies such as Disney, Digital Domain and Sony. He’s written many complex 3D software systems as a Technical Director, authored a number of books on 3D graphics and taught numerous Master Classes on Hyper-Reality. Miller is also a frequent speaker, is published by the ACM, and has managed multimillion dollar software projects. Peter Brook is an incredibly skilled and dedicated engineer. His most recent experience is as a Software Engineer at Facebook, working on several areas of the Facebook platform, primarily, spam fighting algorithms: Peter wrote large parts of the machine learning infrastructure that Facebook uses to fight spam, fake accounts, and other attacks on the social graph.

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Prashant Shah, TIE Angels on Execution

Nima Adelkhani — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:02:08 +0000

Prashant Shah is on the Board of Directors TIE Angels. Prashant has been an early stage venture investor since 2001. He is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley and a member of its Board of Directors. He also helped launch TiE Angels and is on its Steering Committee. Previously, he spent nearly 10 years at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and was instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Krillion, Pancetera, Scalent, and Voltage Security. Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack with product management roles at enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. In addition, he was on the Board of Trustees for Astia from July 2007 to April 2011. Prashant received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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Vivek Wadhwa: Wakeup Call

Nima Adelkhani — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:42:53 +0000

Vivek Wadhwa is an Academic Researcher, Writer & Entrepreneur. Vivek is Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University; Fellow, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory University. Wadhwa oversees the academic programs at Singularity University, which educates a select group of leaders about the exponentially growing technologies that are soon going to change our world. These advances—in fields such as robotics, A.I., computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials—are making it possible for small teams to do what was once possible only for governments and large corporations to do: solve the grand challenges in education, water, food, shelter, health, and security. In his roles at Stanford, Duke, and Emory universities, Wadhwa lectures in class on subjects such as entrepreneurship and public policy, helps prepare students for the real world, and leads groundbreaking research projects. He is an advisor to several governments; mentors entrepreneurs; and is a regular columnist for The Washington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and the American Society of Engineering Education’s Prism magazine. Prior Continue Reading

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