Los Angeles-based DTS , which develops surround sound technology, said today that it has signed on as an Executive Sponsor of USC's Entertainment Technology Center, an effort at the school to link entertainment, technology, and consumer electronics firms. The Entertainment Technology Center @ USC is part of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and was co-founded in 1993 with help from George Lucas. The center and DTS said the deal will allow DTS to participate in a number of its research, project, meetings, and other activities. Financial details

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He graduated from Rhodes College and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (MBA). Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of

In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers In addition to these, I'd recommend looking at: Technology Council of Southern California – Surprised John didn't mention this one.

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the effort of the University of Southern California to foster innovation within its campus and the community, has been turning an eye to how to more effectively spin out academic efforts into companies. Technology transfer and academic spinouts, despite their deep technology roots and barriers to entry, are notoriously difficult to get funded and spun out of universities. The institute said today that it has just published a white paper focused on helping universities to improve the spinout process, finding -- among other things -- that universities need to "get better at gathering, filtering, translating, and packaging new ideas."

The University of Southern California is reporting today that spinouts out of the school have raised $148m in the last two calendar years (2008-2009), and that there are now at least 24 USC spinouts currently in business. The school--which has been actively encouraging startup activity based on its research in recent years--said that 16 USC startups raised $148M, in a combination of new startup funding and additional rounds of financing for those companies. The school said that the 24 spinouts of the school employ approximately 500 full time employees, with at least 267 of those jobs in Los Angeles.

According to USC, Alan Epstein, M.D., a professor in the firm's Department of Pathology at the USC Keck School of Medicine of USC, just received the $3.5M The technology being developed by Epstein has been licensed to privately held Pivotal Biosciences, which is headed by Dimitri Villard. ...Tags: A spinout of the University of Southern California, Pivotal Biosciences , is benefiting from the approval of a $3.5M drug development project that was just approved by the National Cancer Institute, for developing a treatment for metastatic melanoma and metastatic

According to the foundation, the new X PRIZE Lab@USC will include a semester-long course for undergraduates, enrolling students from both the School of Engineering and USC Marshall School of Business. The X PRIZE Foundation said that the effort is the third, university effort by the group, which also runs programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Evans School of Public Affairs University of Washington. The X Prize Foundation , the nonprofit which is managing a number of prize-based competitions to spur on scientific research and innovation, said Wednesday that it is launching a new lab program at the University of Southern Califonia Viterbi School of Engineering .

News & World Report at #11, and USC Marshall is ranked by U.S. We just posted an interview with a company (Scripped) with a little bit of both USC and UCLA — a USC film MFA with a UCLA Anderson MBA, but they are just the latest of many, many startups we encounter here which are driven by ambitious, energetic students coming out of the local universities, and in particular, their MBA programs. As much as people debate how to get technology out of universities, it’s clear that People talk a lot how an area creates an environment conducive to startups and high tech entrepreneurship.

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene.  We We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.  We But we have a great city for building technology companies. Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). A great opportunity for more visible networking . I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates.