Wall Street Journal: Thalmic Labs Raises $120M To Interact With Machines
Thalmic Labs, a company co-founded by Stephen Lake (Loran Scholar ’07), was featured in The Wall Street Journal. Thalmic Labs Inc., which developed an armband that lets people control computers with gestures, raised $120 million as the company develops new forms...National Observer: Canadians could school Americans on carbon pricing and climate, says new research
Matto Mildenberger (Loran Scholar ’03) was interviewed by the National Observer. Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara Matto Mildenberger and his team were surprised by some of the results in their first-of-its-kind research detailing how...CBC British Columbia: The race to find the ‘holy grail’ of drone technology
Alexander Harmsen (W. Garfield Weston Loran Scholar ’10), CEO and co-founder of Iris Automation, was interviewed by CBC News. Artificial intelligence (AI) — once the stuff of science fiction — is fuelling the efforts of two Vancouver-based entrepreneurs to give...TechCrunch: Iris Automation (’10) is bringing eyes, and situational awareness, to drones
Iris Automation, co-founded by Alexander Harmsen (W. Garfield Weston Loran Scholar ’10), was featured by TechCrunch. The company’s first product is a combination of off-the-shelf chips and other components, and proprietary software that can learn and tell a drone’s...
LORAN, short for Long-Range Aid to Navigation, is a system that uses three points (for us, our values of character, service and leadership) to determine one's course for a long journey. The name emphasizes the lifelong impact and values of being a Loran Scholar.
LORAN, abréviation de Long-Range Aid to Navigation, est un système de navigation qui utilise les ondes de trois émetteurs pour établir une position. Pour nous, les trois points de repère sont les valeurs de détermination, d’engagement communautaire et de leadership. Le mot met l’accent sur les valeurs et l’impact à long terme de la Bourse Loran.