The technology company, Affectiva, and the research initiative, One Laptop per Child, started where?
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Affectiva Affectiva is an emotion measurement technology company that grew out of MIT's Media Lab which has developed a way for computers to recognize human emotions based on facial cues or physiological responses. Among the commercial applications, this emotion recognition technology is used to help brands improve their advertising and marketing messages. Another major application has been in political polling. In 2011, the company partnered with Millward Brown, which is itself a part of the Kantar Group, the market research, insight and consultancy division of WPP plc, a London-based public company.
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MIT Media Lab The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devoted to projects at the convergence of technology, multimedia, sciences, art and design. Staff and students have backgrounds ranging from electrical engineering and computer science to sociology and music and others. The Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as "Wired" and "Red Herring" for a series of practical inventions in the fields of wireless networks, field sensing, web browsers and the World Wide Web. s of 2014 , it has diversified its research into neurobiology, biologically inspired fabrication, socially engaging robots, emotive computing, bionics, and hyperinstruments. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was one of the notable research efforts which grew out of the Media Lab.
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Dell (subsidiary) Dell (stylized as DELL) is an American multinational technology company. A subsidiary of Dell Technologies, the company is based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Eponymously named after founder Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide.
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OLPC XO The OLPC XO, previously known as the $100 Laptop, Children's Machine, and 2B1, is an inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning). The XO was developed by Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, and designed by Yves Behar's Fuseproject company. The laptop is manufactured by Quanta Computer and developed by One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
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Neuralink Neuralink is an American neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk and eight others, reported to be developing implantable brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). The company's headquarters are in San Francisco; it was started in 2016 and was first publicly reported in March 2017. The trademark for "Neuralink" was purchased from its previous owners in January 2017.
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Games2win Games2win is an online gaming businesses based in India. The company Games2win India Pvt. Ltd. was co-founded by serial entrepreneur Alok Kejriwal and Mahesh Khambadkone, a gaming technocrat. The company is headquartered in Mumbai, India.
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Fit Brains Fit Brains is mobile/online software marketed for brain training. Vivity Labs, which originally produced the games, was founded in 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia by Michael Cole, a game developer, Paul Nussbaum, a neuropsychologist, and Mark Baxter, who had worked in the brain training field for the prior seven years. The platform was started mostly with private investors' money and was also supported by Telefilm Canada and National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP).
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Theranos Theranos ( ) is an American privately held health technology company based in Palo Alto, California. The company is known for its marketing of its efforts to create blood tests that used small sample volume technology. It was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes at the age of 19. By 2014, Theranos had raised more than $400 million in funding with an estimated value of $9 billion.
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Indix Indix is a company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States that currently offers a cloud-based product information platform. It is also building a broad and deep product catalog to enable mobile and desktop apps and websites to become product-aware. Indix provides access to APIs that enable developers to build product-aware applications. The big data startup is headquartered in Seattle with a product development office in Chennai and was founded in 2010 by former Microsoft executive Sanjay Parthasarathy.
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Voicetap Applied Mobile Labs earlier known as Voicetap Technologies is a technology company focused on building mobile based products for education and lead generation, headquartered at Noida, India. It currently operates in two countries India and Kenya and has deployed its products as VAS with three telecom operators, Tata Docomo, Bharti Airtel and Safaricom.
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Find-a-drug Find-a-Drug (often abbreviated as 'FAD') was a not for profit distributed computing project which was set up in April 2002 by Treweren Consultants, the company who developed the THINK software. Find-a-Drug aimed to run a series of projects in parallel addressing a number of diseases which have a major impact on health. The project sought to collaborate with the world's leading experts including academics in each therapeutic area.
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Revolution Analytics Revolution Analytics (formerly REvolution Computing) is a statistical software company focused on developing open source and "open-core" versions of the free and open source software R for enterprise, academic and analytics customers. Revolution Analytics was founded in 2007 as REvolution Computing providing support and services for R in a model similar to Red Hat's approach with Linux in the 1990s as well as bolt-on additions for parallel processing. In 2009 the company received nine million in venture capital from Intel along with a private equity firm and named Norman H. Nie as their new CEO. In 2010 the company announced the name change as well as a change in focus. Their core product, Revolution R, would be offered free to academic users and their commercial software would focus on big data, large scale multiprocessor (or "high performance") computing, and multi-core functionality.
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Numerama Numerama (formerly Ratiatum) is a French language news website that focuses on economic, legal, social, and technological issues. It was founded in April 2002 by Guillaume Champeau and is published by the company PressTIC. Numerama receives about 2 million visits per month and was the 10th most influential medium on Facebook ranked by Le Journal du Net in September 2011.
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Child Trends Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Bethesda, Maryland. It studies children at all stages of development and aims to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media. Founded in 1979, Child Trends helps keep the nation focused on children and their needs by identifying emerging issues; evaluating important programs and policies; and providing data-driven, evidence-based guidance on policy and practice. The organization is funded through grants and contracts from foundations, federal and state agencies, and other organizations. In June 2014, Child Trends launched the Child Trends Hispanic Institute.
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Engine (organization) Engine is a non-profit group advocating for public policies that encourage the growth of technology startups in San Francisco, California. Engine is composed of a 501(c)(3) organization called Engine Research Foundation and a 501(c)(4) called Engine Advocacy. Engine Advocacy and Engine Foundation are the two branches of a non-profit organization that conducts economic research and policy analysis research and provides support and advice to technology startups. Engine Advocacy was an instrumental partner in the effort to defeat PIPA and SOPA back in 2012. The organization researches and advocates around the issues of open Internet, intellectual property reform, privacy laws, Internet and spectrum access and immigration reform. Google, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Mozilla, Yelp and the Startup Genome support the organization.
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Ainol Shenzhen Ainol Electronics Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 深圳艾诺电子有限公司)is a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturing and distribution company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It specialises in Android Tablet Computers and Phablets. The company principally sells its products under the Ainol brand, but also offers OEM production under other brand names. The company was founded in 2004. Its slogan is "Enjoy life. Enjoy ainol".
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IAV IAV GmbH (German: Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr , literal "Engineer Society Automobil and Traffic"), abbreviated to IAV, is an engineering company in the automotive industry, designing products for powertrain, electronics and vehicle development. Founded in Berlin in 1983 by Prof. Dr. Hermann Appel as a university-affiliated research institute, the company employs over 5,000 members of staff, and supplies automobile manufacturers and component suppliers. In addition to development centres in Berlin, Chemnitz and Gifhorn, IAV operates at sites in France, United Kingdom, Italy, Russia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico and the United States.
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Computer Economics Computer Economics is an IT research firm focusing on the strategic and financial management of information systems. It was founded in 1979 by Bruno Bassi and is currently headquartered in Irvine, California, USA. Clients include IT organizations, consulting firms, and financial services firms in North America and other countries. Its "Computer Economics Report", first published in 1979, is a monthly newsletter related to IT cost management. Its "IT Spending, Staffing, and Technology Trends" study, first published in 1990, is based on its annual survey of IT executives in the U.S. and Canada. The firm also publishes special reports on IT spending and staffing metrics, IT salaries, IT security, malware, and other topics. In addition, the firm maintains data on vendor pricing and discounting, fair market values, and residual value forecasts for computer hardware.
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SpinVox SpinVox was a start-up company that is now a subsidiary of global speech technology company Nuance Communications, an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States on the outskirts of Boston, that provides speech and imaging applications. Initially, SpinVox provided voice-to-text conversion services for carrier markets, including wireless, fixed, VoIP and cable, as well as for unified communications, enterprise and Web 2.0 environments. This service was ostensibly provided through an automated computer system, with human intervention where needed. However, there were accusations that the system operated almost exclusively through the use of call-center workers in South Africa and the Philippines.
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Novopay Novopay is a web-based payroll system for state and state integrated schools in New Zealand, processing the pay of 110,000 teaching and support staff at 2,457 schools. It was purchased by the New Zealand Ministry of Education for $182 million over ten years, and was implemented in August 2012 after seven years of planning and development by Australian human resources company Talent2. From the outset, the system led to widespread problems with over 8,000 teachers receiving the wrong pay and in some cases no pay at all; within a few months, 90% of schools were affected.
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Razer Inc. Razer USA Ltd., doing business as Razer Inc. (stylized as RΛZΞR), is a Singaporean-founded American company founded by Min-Liang Tan and Robert Krakoff, and headquartered in San Francisco, California, which specializes in computer hardware marketed specifically to gamers. Razer is dedicated to the creation and development of products mainly focused on PC gaming such as laptops, tablet computer, various PC peripherals, wearables, and accessories. The Razer brand is currently being marketed under Razer USA Ltd.
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Young Lives Young Lives is an international research project on childhood poverty that was established in 2000 and is coordinated by a team based at the University of Oxford's Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Great Britain.