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News and Stories Archive
A list of news about the Technology Transfer Center or
stories about Technology Transfer that are of interest.
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| | Center Creates Technology of Its Own
11/1/2005 It started as an improvisation, a gizmo created by staff at NASA’s USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Far West Regional Technology Transfer Center (RTTC) to enable the center’s chief to give presentations that would be more vivid and striking
The gizmo that RTTC staffers came up with – an ultracompact and inexpensive device that can present ultrahigh definition video – is now stepping up to a new level. In August, the Los Angeles chain Landmark Theaters used it to show an Ingmar Bergman film......[ + Read more.... ]
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| | Far West RTTC and CSA Partner to Deliver Tech Transfer Results for NASA
7/1/2005 The Far West RTTC is affiliated with California Space Authority (CSA) in a strategic alliance to foster innovative partnerships with NASA. Efforts to forge partnerships between NASA and California space companies include outreach, events, lead generation and SBIR/STTR training......[ + Read more.... ]
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| | Ken Dozier Appointed to Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology
12/1/2004 Ken Dozier, Executive Director of the USC ETTC, has been named to the newly formed California Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology. Dozier is one of forty selected for membership on the task force. Dozier will serve on the Policy and Ethics subcommittee. Other task force subcommittees include Research and Development, Education, Commercialization and Facilities/Infrastructure..........[ + Read more.... ]
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| | NASA Far West RTTC suppliers ranked among the top at USC
5/1/2004 Two Far West RTTC small business suppliers captured the number one and number two rankings in the category of government subcontractors at the University of Southern California this year. Those two small businesses are among the fifteen highest ranking small business suppliers to the University......[ + Read more.... ]
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| | NASA JPL: Your Research institution Partner for STTR
5/1/2004 JPL is the only Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in the NASA family. As an FFRDC, JPL can fill the role of research institution partner required for all STTR proposals. In addition to being an FFRDC, JPL is considered by many to be NASA’s technology powerhouse, with broad-ranging expertise and capabilities across a wide spectrum of technologies......[ + Read more.... ]
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| | David Loftus, Innovator of Nanotechnology “Vision Chip” Speaks at NASA Summit
2/1/2003 Dr. David J. Loftus of NASA’s Ames Research Center made two presentations at the NASA Medical Technology Summit on February 11-13, 2003 in Pasadena, California. Dr. Loftus, discussed his work at NASA in developing a “Vision Chip” designed to restore vision in patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration, the number one cause of blindness in the elderly. He also presented his research on the use of carbon nanotube “Bucky” paper as a scaffold for retinal cell transplantation. Dr. Loftus also was available for one-on-one conversations to discuss future commercial development opportunities for both of these technologies......[ + Read more.... ]
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| | SBIR Comedy Skit Plays in San Jose
5/1/2002 "So You Wanna Get an SBIR," a comedy skit written by the Far West RTTC to provide an entertaining introduction to key elements of the SBIR program, made its second appearance on stage on the first day of a NASA SBIR/STTR workshop held in San Jose on May 30. The second day featured a session on SBIR Phase I preparation presented by Jim and Gail Greenwood. The two-day workshop was organized by the Center for Applied Competitive Technologies (CACT) / De Anza College and sponsored by the NASA Far West RTTC. The skit premiered last December for a brief one-day run at the ITEC conference in Honolulu, Hawaii......[ + Read more.... ]
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| | Six D Studios to Market NASA Ames Technology
4/12/2002 Six D, Inc., announced today that it has obtained the license to market a unique image compression technology developed at NASA. Six D becomes the first company in the United States to acquire a Patent License Agreement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to commercialize NASA's DCTune technology......[ + Read more.... ]
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| | NASA Technology to Help People See ‘Big Picture’ Better
4/1/2002 NASA’s unique image-compression technology developed for collection, transmission and distribution of space imagery to scientists at remote locations now can be used to enhance the quality of printing for Internet, Web-TV and medical imaging......[ + Read more.... ]
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| | NASA First Contact: Communicating in the 21st Century
3/28/2002![]() NASA First Contact: Communicating in the 21st Century is the title of a daylong workshop being held on the campus of Arizona State University West in Glendale, Arizona on March 28. The event, sponsored by the NASA Far West RTTC, Arizona Technology Incubator, Pinnacle Management Group and the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, will showcase several technologies that are available from NASA for commercial use by the private sector......[ + Read more.... ]
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