This post is also available in: Vietnamese “I knew from a young age that I could turn my ideas into real business opportunities.” Dr. Thuc Vu, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, is at once a serial entrepreneur, an innovator, and an engineer. He founded and co-founded a number of tech companies, including “automatic friend sorter” Katango, which was acquired by Google. He went on to create Tappy.co, a “hyper-local social app” that…
The virtual assistant market is booming! Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) technology, devices that model human interaction to perform multiple tasks have grown considerably in popularity. Google Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana, Apple Siri, and Amazon Echo are widely known. But there are other incredible real-world applications across industries such as education, healthcare, home care, and self-driving cars gaining ground due to the growing trends of outsourced assistance, a mobile workforce, and placing importance on customer engagement.…
Back in January, we announced the launch of Kambria’s Global Innovation Fund with Lehigh University. The purpose of the Fund is to leverage our academic and corporate networks to globally match researchers looking for funding with companies interested in innovation. The first recipient of a Fund sponsorship was the CS capstone project at Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. Lehigh students have now integrated voice commands into Ohmni robots! Fast forward…
