“Ben is one of the best founders we have had the chance to work with. He makes not only his investors, but his partners and employees feel heard. He has built Colossal by sticking to an aggressive timeline that he built collaboratively with his team and I expect that the next step of this planet altering will be just as seamless as the first [steps]!”
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Publications
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Biotech Companies Are Ripe For Machine Learning Adoption
Forbes
We are at the infancy of the biotech industry’s adoption of machine learning tools. But, over the next 20 years, a more “multidisciplinary and data-intensive approach to life sciences will shift our understanding of and ability to manipulate living matter.” However, lack of data sophistication is limiting the potential for rapid advancement right now. And, in my opinion, the more we wait, the more we will fall behind.
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How ‘Jurassic Park’ Is Becoming a Reality Thirty Years Later
Rolling Stone
To mark the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, Colossal CEO Ben Lamm shares how the movie influenced his company’s plans to de-extinct animals
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How the sixth extinction crisis can be stalled – or even stopped
World Economic Forum
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A PROPOSAL TO DEMOCRATIZE AI
BuiltIn
To ensure AI fulfills its potential, we must democratize the technology to avoid allowing it to be yet another driver of inequality. Here's how we start.
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It’s Time to Start ‘Greenworking’ and Commit to Making Sustainable Changes
Adweek
We should all be actively involved in collective work, meaning work not focused on the next big quarter but instead on tearing down the collective apathy of our future.
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Why the Government Needs To Create A $10B Venture Fund for Artificial Intelligence
Nextgov
The growing rift between technology companies and the U.S. government will harm our national security. We must act now to align private and public interests to rapidly scale our technology capabilities and ensure our tax dollars are spent wisely and, potentially, profitably. The best way to do this is to fund AI through a coordinated approach that brings together our country’s technology innovators and public servants.
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Why Influencers Are Focusing on the Bigger Picture as Advocates
Adweek
Celebrities who back causes are more desired by consumers now
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For your next business opportunity, look to the stars
SpaceNews
Technology entrepreneur Ben Lamm outlines three space opportunities for budding founders not interested in building hardware.
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MARS VS EARTH: The problems we’re solving for on Earth will only follow us to Mars
Quartz
There are plenty of problems on Earth that need fixing before we imprint ourselves on another planet. Should we really be spending money and resources on space exploration when we haven’t adequately addressed our own terrestrial crises?
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The 2024 Moon Landing Will Rocket a Major Marketing Gold Rush
Adweek
The biggest marketing moment of the 2020s won’t be the next Olympic games or the Super Bowl. It will be when we land on the moon for the second time. The U.S. government has plans to land on the moon by 2024 with both a male and a female astronaut. Like in 1969, it will be a moment that captures the attention of the globe. It will also fuel a major marketing gold rush.
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Algae might be a secret weapon to combatting climate change
Quartz
While the Amazon plays a vital role in global carbon absorption (and we should continue to try and save it), between 1994 and 2007, our oceans absorbed 34 gigatons of the world’s carbon through algae, vegetation, and coral. In other words, the trees might not save us—but the oceans could.
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Perhaps 2019 Is Finally the Prophesized Year of Video for Marketers and Publishers
Adweek
AI and other tech are making it easier to reach consumers in this way
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What I learned from building 5 companies in 5 totally different industries
FastCompany
The lessons I learned can be used by anyone who’s looking to explore a new opportunity outside their current field.
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How AI Can Help Agencies Find Their Creative Mojo Again
Adweek
Artificial intelligence is not the enemy here
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Revealing Our Biases: Three Steps To Creating More Objective AI
Forbes
Whether consciously or not, most of us are influenced by bias, and AI can highlight this in unsettling ways. But this isn't a reason to be afraid. It’s a reason to charge ahead, not only for the betterment of business and the growth of technology, but for the betterment of everyone.
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Utilizing Adaptive Advertising as Brands Taking Stands Becomes More Common
Adweek
The Future of Advertising
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Using Trust as the Driving Force Behind Marketing Strategies
Adweek
Millenials Are Killing the Deception Economy
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Solving The Skills Gap With User-Friendly Artificial Intelligence
Forbes
A recent Gartner report predicts that by 2020, 80% of AI projects will remain alchemy — technology that might as well be magic — when it comes to employee understanding. This lack of understanding matters because when employees don't understand AI, implementations go wrong. Still, we shouldn't place the burden on employees to change. Instead, the tech needs to be more accessible, instead of expecting the skills gap to shrink. We need to make AI more user friendly, less wonky, so that we can…
A recent Gartner report predicts that by 2020, 80% of AI projects will remain alchemy — technology that might as well be magic — when it comes to employee understanding. This lack of understanding matters because when employees don't understand AI, implementations go wrong. Still, we shouldn't place the burden on employees to change. Instead, the tech needs to be more accessible, instead of expecting the skills gap to shrink. We need to make AI more user friendly, less wonky, so that we can achieve increased and effective adoption.
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Take Your Marketing to Infinity and Beyond by Utilizing Space Data
Adweek
Information gleaned from satellites can offer fascinating insights into consumer preferences
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What 'Branding' in This Age of Renewed Interest in Space Means for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur
What the space industry has taught us is that shifting from a 'me' to an 'us' mindset is motivating. Does your marketing reflect that?
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Defense industry must take lead on AI as tech firms waiver
The Hill
In September 2018 the Pentagon announced it would invest up to $2 billion over five years in development of artificial intelligence (AI).
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How to ‘Botify’ Your Brand and Save It From Becoming Irrelevant
Adweek
Legacy companies that do so often see a sizeable shift in ROI
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It's definitely too late for your digital transformation
CIO Dive
The 88% of companies hanging out in the middle of their digital transformation journey are officially dead.
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Entrepreneurs in Space: Musk Shouldn't Have Mars All to Himself
Entrepreneur
The opportunities in space exploration, tourism and colonization are vast, if you know where to look.
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The space race is on the brink of becoming a violent land grab
WIRED
Without any rules in place, the probability of international conflict from an extraterrestrial incident is quickly escalating
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Shaming Elon Musk Is How You Kill the Next Great Inventor
Entrepreneur
History will remember Musk as one of our generation's greatest inventors. And yet we're doing everything we can to shoot him down.
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What The C-Suite Gets Wrong About AI
Forbes
The dissonance between the long-standing application of AI and the mystique that still manages to surround it has always been an underlying tension. However, the hype around AI seems to be reaching extreme levels.
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Artificial Intelligence Will Save Humanity, But Does Anyone Care?
Ozy
Artificial intelligence could be man’s best friend in the race for survival. Worrying about robots taking away jobs is missing the woods for the trees.
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What AI Can Do For Your Small Business
Tony Robbins
The idea that you need to have a big company to use sophisticated technology is understandable as a belief, but it’s also wrong. While a lot of people think that great, transformative technology is expensive and unrealistic as a business owner, this simply isn’t the case.
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Why We Need to Look at AI Innovation as a Digital Renaissance
Adweek
AI has become the new Ford assembly line, and I think it’s the worst thing that can happen to the technology.
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Resisting Technology, Lacking Trust And Fighting For The Future
Forbes
Humans don’t handle change well, and nothing illustrates that more than a technological breakthrough. Of course, it’s nothing new. The same debates about media attend most every advancement. Socrates, the architect of Western philosophy, was wary that writing would make people more forgetful.
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We need Elon Musk much more than he needs us
The Hill
Heroes are not created equal. Most people recognize the name Sully Sullenberger, but far fewer can tell you what Alan Turing did during World War II. Fewer still could tell you that Turing was chemically castrated because he was gay, and committed suicide shortly thereafter. But thanks for bringing one of the most horrifying wars in history to an abrupt end, I guess?
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The Ability to Sell Will Make or Break Your Company, So Stop Underselling It
Entrepreneur Magazine
Tech is suffering from a fundamental imbalance. Everyone wants to be a visionary without realizing they need to be salesmen, too. It's a widespread and shocking oversight. We constantly bemoan the lack of technical talent, citing shortages of talent in fields like engineering and computer science, but don't realize we're facing a similar crisis in a role that essentially every business needs.
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Tech Skeptics Need to Face Their Fears and Embrace Artificial Intelligence
Adweek
Some brands are still wary of incorporating AI into their customer engagement strategy. They would argue that they’re technology skeptics—I would argue that they’re technology ignorant. If you haven’t already started implementing AI into your customer engagement touchpoints, you’re losing on all fronts. From cohesive brand messaging to higher employee satisfaction, AI is the tool you need for your business.
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AI Might Take Jobs, But CEOs Are Giving Them Away
Forbes
In an ideal future, automation will open new roles within a company in areas where humans best excel -- strategic, creative and managerial roles. According to a Gartner study, AI will create 2.3 million new jobs by 2020 -- that’s half a million more than it’s expected to remove. With such an affirmative number, people have assumed that AI will make our jobs easier, and employees who are replaced by machines will be moved up to more cognitively stimulating positions.
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How AI Will Transform Our Work
Tony Robbins
Artificial Intelligence will free us from the mundane, but how still depends on us
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Is the VC Era Over? Let's Hope So for the Sake of Business.
Entrepreneur Magazine
Despite the holier-than-thou reputation, at the end of the day, VC money is borrowed money just like any other. That means, explicit or not, there's a repayment timeline. For an entire fund, the payment window is usually 10 years, with the first five serving as the investment window and the latter five representing the window for the money return. Entrepreneurs slot in all along this timeline, with each subsequent year squeezing them a little tighter and heightening the expectations for a…
Despite the holier-than-thou reputation, at the end of the day, VC money is borrowed money just like any other. That means, explicit or not, there's a repayment timeline. For an entire fund, the payment window is usually 10 years, with the first five serving as the investment window and the latter five representing the window for the money return. Entrepreneurs slot in all along this timeline, with each subsequent year squeezing them a little tighter and heightening the expectations for a quick-turn on obscene profits.
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How AI Is Making Advertising More Efficient and Consumer-Focused
Adweek
Conversational insight is the most effective tool brands have ever had. Last year, veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg denounced online ads for ruining the online experience. The model is bad for everyone, as advertisers and online sites scrabble over quality control and the fight for cheap digital real estate.
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Why Your Business Needs To Try AI
Forbes
With each new technology rolled out to market, the viable reactionary period for businesses is shrinking.
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How Crying Could Save Your Business
Entrepreneur Magazine
I cried this morning. I thought about how many people were relying on me to make the right decisions and how much those decisions had the potential to hurt the people I know and love if they went wrong. If I had a nickel for every night I fell asleep scared stiff about failure, I could fund my next five businesses.
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What The Service Economy Must Learn From Industry 4.0
Forbes
The wave of digitizing and innovation happening in manufacturing officially has a name: Industry 4.0. It captures the breadth and depth of change sweeping through the industry. McKinsey has called it the "fourth major upheaval in modern manufacturing," likening the change to 1970s revolution, 1990s outsourcing and 2000s automation.
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Chatbots deserve more than being a joke
The Next Web
Bots have been hyped for years. 2016 was going to be the year of the bot. Then 2017. Chatbots have become the punchline for every snarky technologist feigning an understanding of where NLP, AI, and ML technologies currently stand. Which means we’re right on track.
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Can We Stop Pivoting Already?
Entrepreneur Magazine
At some point in the past 30 years, the business world made the mistake of equating change with progress.
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Too Much of Today's AI Is a Novelty Without a Clear Plan to Make Money
Entrepreneur Magazine
The 2018 artificial intelligence landscape looks an awful lot like the Sharper Image catalog. It's chock full of products that were built merely because we can build them, and because they're marketable. Much like these products, too much of the AI on the market today is disposable novelty technology. Nobody conducted market research to determine the total addressable market for bacon toasters.
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Brands Need to Embrace AI to Remain Relevant With Ever-Changing Consumers
Adweek
AI allows companies to explore the new channels and initiatives, and even test at scale, without betting the entire business or sacrificing current successful strategy.
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The wrong way to do AI: A big rollout
Venture Beat
IBM Watson’s 2011 debut stunned the world by defeating some of Jeopardy’s finest champions. Seven years later, Watson’s greatest achievement is, err, still that Jeopardy win oh so many years ago. The Watson launch was a mass market striptease that had the world in awe of the potential of AI. It inspired a generation of technologists to set their sites on AI. But while it helped to end the so-called “AI-winters,” it has yet to produce an enterprise-viable technology.
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The Future of Information Technology is Intelligence
InformationWeek
In 2003 Nick Carr declared that IT had become a ubiquitous commodity with no competitive advantage. Since then cloud computing has eliminated any remaining strategic value in traditional IT organizations. You are not going to outrun your competitors because you purchased better office supplies. Speed is now the commodity we’re all bidding for. To win you need to produce radical efficiency gains, the likes of which haven’t been seen since businesses went digital in the first place. Those gains…
In 2003 Nick Carr declared that IT had become a ubiquitous commodity with no competitive advantage. Since then cloud computing has eliminated any remaining strategic value in traditional IT organizations. You are not going to outrun your competitors because you purchased better office supplies. Speed is now the commodity we’re all bidding for. To win you need to produce radical efficiency gains, the likes of which haven’t been seen since businesses went digital in the first place. Those gains will be brought to you by artificial intelligence.
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Why AI Is the New Battleground for Brand Marketers
Adweek
Most brand experiences will be delivered through AI by 2025. The only question is whether your brand will still exist.
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Why You Should Put the 'Cult' Back in Culture
Entrepreneur Magazine
You don't need to brainwash your employees, but they should be obsessed with your mission. I laugh out loud when I hear executives yammering on and on about building great cultures. It sounds good at first, until you soon realize it’s just a bunch of the same Care Bear speaking points the marketing department dreamed up over a brown bag lunch or stolen from Facebook or Google.
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How to Not Squander Your AI Investments
Gigaom
We are more comfortable having conversations with machines than ever before. In fact, by 2020, the average person will have more conversations with bots than with their spouse. Twenty-seven percent of consumers weren’t sure if their last customer service interaction was with a human or a chatbot.
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When Will Bots Have Their ‘Mobile Moment’?
MarTech
In 2017, we finally began to see chatbots break into more mainstream usage among consumers. There are a number of factors propelling this usage, from the rising influence of messaging services over social networks to businesses finally committing to an AI future where bots and automated assistants will play an increasingly important role.
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AI solutions are only as effective as their KPIs
Venture Beat
Fueled by the exponential proliferation of big data, advances in AI have grown with unprecedented speed over the past decade. Programming AI is no longer an arduous process of building it line by line. Rather, AI is able to learn by itself, from itself. And the market has taken notice. In 2016, the enterprise market demand for AI-related products reached more than $8 billion.
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AI is the brains behind more caring customer service
Venture Beat
In 2015, the shift from social to messaging ultimately created the perfect environment for the bot and automation ecosystem to emerge. While the bot market still has some maturation to do, we’re already seeing an outgrowth of conversational commerce that I call “conversational care.”
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How chatbots will evolve over the next 5 years
Venture Beat
Bots hit the scene so quickly in 2016 that many people have started to wonder if they’re just a temporary fad that will give way to a new technology this year or next. What these people fail to realize is that bots never mattered. They didn’t matter when Microsoft announced its Bot Framework; they didn’t matter when Facebook announced its bot platform. They still don’t matter today.
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Stop Calling Everyone an Entrepreneur --They Aren't
Entrepreneur Magazine
There is a difference between an entrepreneur and small-business owner.
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Why it’s back to basics with bots
Venture Beat
It’s not just about tech, it’s about experience. The tech industry would have you think that bots are fundamentally changing the way we interact with the web. Some argue that bots mark the end of the era of mobile apps. I argue that your business shouldn’t care about what bots mean to the tech world. Focus on what they mean for your customer’s experience with your brand.
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How to make sure your first bot doesn’t make a belly flop
Venture Beat
2016 was all go for bots. Now, it’s a question of sustainability. In this post, I lay out the risks of brands moving too fast – how it’s possible to buy too much AI, walk before you run, and do too much too soon when it comes to your AI and conversational interface strategy. Then, I laid out key considerations for responsible approach to bots.
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Phones are for conversations - why bots will replace apps.
Venture Beat
In just eight years, the smartphone has changed how people interact with the world and with businesses, from customer service to commerce to content and beyond. And more change is coming. Every company that has a mobile app or call center is going to have to interact with customers through myriad channels. Messaging will become the primary path for customer interaction over the next five years. It will displace call centers. It will replace or augment mobile apps.
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The Future of O&G: It's a Generational Thing
SHALE: O&G Business Magazine
To stay alive and thrive in today's oil and gas industry, updating archaic software is a smart start to attracting top talent.
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6 tips from an Austin CEO to build your amazing company
Austin Business Journal
When we hire, brilliance and experience are essential, but what’s just as crucial is culture fit. Here are my rules for how to build a killer business.
Link on Chaotic Moon Blog:
http://www.chaoticmoon.com/chaos-theory/6-tips-building-amazing-company-chaotic-moon-ceo-ben-lamm-breaks-abj/ -
Will Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Learn With Virtual Reality?
Entrepreneur Magazine
We combined next-gen technologies with digital behavior trends to create an Immersive Learning system that can train students and entrepreneurs on anything, anywhere, with better neurological results.
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The Last Thing Cars Need: More Apps
Forbes
When it comes to the future of in-car technology for developers, service providers, and retailers, they need to think about the 3 Cs: Connectivity, Context, and Consultation.
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Nest is Off the Market, but Maybe it has a Hot Younger Sister
Fast Company
Title Changed By Publication: If You Can't Beat Them, Buy Them
A look at the Internet of Things/connected device ecosystem, outsourced R&D, and Kickstarter as an incubator for corporations.
Patents
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Wheelchair Movement Measurement and Analysis
Issued US 10,285,649 B1
Techniques are described for collecting sensor data associated with a wheelchair and, based on the sensor data, determining metric(s) for a user of the wheelchair. Sensor(s) attached to, or in proximity to, the wheelchair may collect sensor data describing the wheelchair and/or its component(s), such as location, velocity, acceleration, direction of movement, orientations (e.g., pitch, yaw, roll), angular velocity of wheels, angular acceleration of wheels, and so forth. The sensor data may be…
Techniques are described for collecting sensor data associated with a wheelchair and, based on the sensor data, determining metric(s) for a user of the wheelchair. Sensor(s) attached to, or in proximity to, the wheelchair may collect sensor data describing the wheelchair and/or its component(s), such as location, velocity, acceleration, direction of movement, orientations (e.g., pitch, yaw, roll), angular velocity of wheels, angular acceleration of wheels, and so forth. The sensor data may be analyzed to determine (e.g., fitness) metrics such as a caloric burn rate, a metabolic burn rate, and/or power expenditure of the user while the user is employing the wheelchair to exercise or otherwise move. The metric(s) and/or sensor data may be presented to the user through a user interface on a smartphone, tablet computer, wearable computer, or other device, to enable the user to monitor fitness metric(s) during use of the wheelchair.
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Systems, media, and methods for providing an algorithmically sorted watchlist or wishlist
Issued US10171859B2
Described are platforms, systems, applications, and methods for algorithmically updating a user configured watchlist or wishlist based on activity of social network connections including: adding an item to a watchlist, consuming or acquiring an item, rating an item, recommending an item, and discussing an item, as well as aggregated activity of a community or population of users within the social network.
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Safety accessory with situational awareness and data retention
Issued US 9,833,031
A video recording system for a head safety device includes a microcontroller and an accelerometer mounted in the head safety device. The accelerometer is coupled to the microcontroller. A plurality of camera modules are mounted on the head safety device and coupled to the microcontroller. The camera modules are positioned facing outward to obtain images at different angles of an environment surrounding the head safety device. The microcontroller receives data from the accelerometer and…
A video recording system for a head safety device includes a microcontroller and an accelerometer mounted in the head safety device. The accelerometer is coupled to the microcontroller. A plurality of camera modules are mounted on the head safety device and coupled to the microcontroller. The camera modules are positioned facing outward to obtain images at different angles of an environment surrounding the head safety device. The microcontroller receives data from the accelerometer and automatically initiates video recording with the camera modules when movement of the head safety device, as sensed using the accelerometer, reaches or exceeds a selected movement threshold.
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Systems, media, and methods for automated response to queries made by interactive electronic chat
Issued US-9785715-B1
Systems, media, and methods for automated response to social queries comprising: monitoring queries from users, each query submitted to a vendor via an interactive chat feature of an external electronic communication platform, monitoring human responses to the queries, monitoring subsequent communications conducted via the electronic communication platform until each query is resolved; applying a first machine learning algorithm to the monitored communications to identify a query susceptible to…
Systems, media, and methods for automated response to social queries comprising: monitoring queries from users, each query submitted to a vendor via an interactive chat feature of an external electronic communication platform, monitoring human responses to the queries, monitoring subsequent communications conducted via the electronic communication platform until each query is resolved; applying a first machine learning algorithm to the monitored communications to identify a query susceptible to response automation; applying a second machine learning algorithm to the query susceptible to response automation to identify one or more responses likely to resolve the query; and either i) notifying a human to respond to the query susceptible to response automation with the one or more responses likely to resolve the query, or ii) instantiating an autonomous software agent configured to respond to the query susceptible to response automation with the one or more responses likely to resolve the query.
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Systems and methods for social recommendations
Issued US 9,558,244
Computer-implemented systems, methods, and media for making a recommendation or a non-recommendation to a user comprising: a software module configured to calculate a social distance between a first and a second user; a software module configured to allow the first and the second user to rate a plurality of items using a gamified rating model; a software module configured to analyze a degree of similarity between the first and the second user based on the ratings of the plurality of items by…
Computer-implemented systems, methods, and media for making a recommendation or a non-recommendation to a user comprising: a software module configured to calculate a social distance between a first and a second user; a software module configured to allow the first and the second user to rate a plurality of items using a gamified rating model; a software module configured to analyze a degree of similarity between the first and the second user based on the ratings of the plurality of items by the first and the second user; a software module configured to make a recommendation or a non-recommendation to the first user based on the social distance and the degree of similarity between the first and the second user, and the ratings of the plurality of items; and a software module configured to present the recommendation or non-recommendation in a manner that comprises a ranked list.
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Platforms, systems, and media for providing multi-room chat stream with hierarchical navigation
Issued US-8843835-B1
Described are chat platforms, systems, applications, and methods including multi-room chat streams and navigable, topical hierarchies of chat rooms navigable.
Other inventorsSee patent
Projects
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Colossal Conservation: Save the Elephants Project to Utilize Drones and Machine Learning for Elephant Conservation
We are working with STE to study the elephants of Samburu National Park using Artificial Intelligence and drones. Using drones to observe the herds allows us to apply our AI to the video data sets in order to train the AI to be able to identify elephants, individuals, herds, and eventually behaviors. This toolkit will allow us to monitor elephant movements passively rather than using collars. It also allows us to begin to predict elephant behavior and movement, which would be key for…
We are working with STE to study the elephants of Samburu National Park using Artificial Intelligence and drones. Using drones to observe the herds allows us to apply our AI to the video data sets in order to train the AI to be able to identify elephants, individuals, herds, and eventually behaviors. This toolkit will allow us to monitor elephant movements passively rather than using collars. It also allows us to begin to predict elephant behavior and movement, which would be key for proactively conserving them and mitigating Human-Elephant Conflict.
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Colossal Conservation: Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon Breeding Program
Together with Zoos Victoria, the VGED was rediscovered for the first time since it was thought extinct in 1969. We have developed a program to establish a breeding and release colony at Melbourne Zoo and we are working to create a reference genome and sequence the population genetics of the remaining dragons.
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Colossal Conservation: Mission to Save the Northern White Rhino From Extinction
Colossal was recently invited to join the BioRescue group as part of the NWR rescue project. In our role as the genetic rescue partner, we are sequencing all known viable and preserved museum samples to create a dataset of the historical genetics of the population. Once we have that information, we will create gene editing tools to confer the identified lost diversity into the cell lines that are being used for embryo transfer.
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Colossal Conservation: “Mammoth in the Classroom” Initiative, as Part of University of Alaska Fairbanks Adopt a Mammoth Program
We are working closely with the University of Alaska and University of Stockholm on radiocarbon dating of American mammoths as well as sequencing their genome. This is the largest mammoth study the world has ever done and we have integrated the research with classrooms in Alaska and are teaching them about DNA extraction, ancient megafauna, and radiocarbon dating samples.
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Colossal Conservation: Partnership with Elephant Havens to Develop New Models for the Successful Reintroduction of Orphan Elephants Using AI
We've partnered with the only elephant orphanage in Botswana to use the same AI platform we are building for STE to study how orphaned elephants develop socially and get ready for reintroduction to the wild. It gives Elephant Havens information to allow them to optimize their strategies for release and gives us great information for rewilding proboscideans in herds without strong adult presence.
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Colossal Conservation: Research and Development of Life-Saving EEHV Vaccine to Prevent Elephant Extinction
In human care, EEHV is responsible for about 1/3 of all elephant deaths; it has now been identified as an emerging threat to highly fragmented populations of elephants. Together with Dr Paul Ling, Colossal is developing an mRNA vaccine that will protect elephants against critical illness. The first vaccine for EEHV1a will be tested in an elephant as soon as 2024.
Honors & Awards
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TIME100 Most Influential Companies
TIME
100 businesses making an extraordinary impact around the world
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The World’s Top 100 Private Deep Tech Companies
XB100
The XB100 is the definitive ranking of the world’s top 100 private deep technology companies, brought to you by XPRIZE and Bessemer Venture Partners.
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Fast Company World Changing Ideas Finalist in Nature
Fast Company
Fast Company’s annual World Changing Ideas Awards honor the businesses and organizations that are developing creative solutions to the most pressing issues of our time.
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Best Places to Work
Built In
Best Places to Work is an awards program that gives recognition to companies who offer the best total rewards programs and compensation packages among their peers. This awards program is unlike any other: an algorithm determines winners based on the offerings employers showcase through Built In Company Profiles.
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Fast Company Most Innovative Companies: Biotech
Fast Company
The 2023 Most Innovative Companies in biotech are helping advances in healthcare and genetic sequencing move forward faster than ever.
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Overall Genomics Innovation of the Year
BioTech Breakthrough Awards
The spirit of the BioTech Breakthrough Awards is to highlight the BREAK THROUGH products, solutions and companies within the crowded biotechnology and life sciences markets.
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Dallas 500
D Magazine
The Dallas 500 is the region's highly selective biographical database of the people who run Dallas-Fort Worth business
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Fast Company World Changing Ideas Finalist in Climate, Nature & General Excellence
Fast Company
The climate category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards recognizes projects designed to mitigate the impacts of climate change, limit emissions, help build resiliency to climate disasters, or otherwise help solve issues of climate crisis.
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World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
World Economic Forum
The Technology Pioneers of 2022 bring together 100 early- to growth-stage companies from around the world that are pioneering new technologies and innovations. These include healthy alternative sugars and plant proteins, the enhancement of virtual connections via tactile effects, satellite-based space weather intelligence systems and many more.
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Austin 40 Under 40
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Since 1998, the Young Women’s Alliance and the Young Men’s Business League have partnered annually to host the Austin Under 40 Awards—a black-tie gala honoring and celebrating Austin’s emerging professionals and their mentors who are making an impact in our community. The application process is a rigorous one and applicants are judged not only on their career achievements but also on their involvement in the community.
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World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers of 2021
World Economic Forum
From climate tech to neuroscience, the latest group of Technology Pioneers blends innovation with entrepreneurial spirit.
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Best Places to work 2021
BuiltIn
https://www.builtinaustin.com/companies/best-midsize-places-to-work-austin
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Top Work Places 2020
Austin American Statesman
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20 Most Innovative Companies 2020
Global Smart Leaders Magazine
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Innovator of the Year
One Planet Awards
The coveted One Planet Awards is world’s premier awards program honoring best in business and professional excellence in every industry from around the world. Organizations from all over the world are eligible to submit nominations including public and private, for-profit and non-profit, largest to smallest and new start-ups.
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Environmental Best Practice
International Green Apple Environmental Awards
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Sustainability Product of the Year
2020 Sustainability Awards
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"Best Deep Learning Platform"
AI Breakthrough Awards
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AI Ethics Award
Communitas
The Communitas Awards is an international effort to recognize exceptional businesses, organizations, and individuals who are unselfishly giving of themselves and their resources, and those who are changing how they do business to benefit their communities.
Hypergiant Industries
AI Ethics
Austin, Texas Computer Software Excellence In Corporate Social Responsibility | Ethical And Environmental Responsibility | 7.1 Ethics in Business
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Grand Winner / Technology & Science
NYX Marcom Awards
Grand Winner - Website - Hypergiant Industries
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Best AI & Machine Learning Consultancy Firm
Corporate Vision Magazine - Technology Innovator Awards
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Entrepreneur of the Year - Gold Stevie Award
American Business Awards
Entrepreneur of the Year (Computer Software - Up to 500 Employees)
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Most Innovative Company of the Year - Bronze Stevie Award
American Business Awards
Hypergiant won the bronze Stevie Award in the 2020 American Business Awards for Most Innovative Company of the Year
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Research Transformation Finalist
Global Design & Innovation Awards
Project Orion is a Research Transformation Finalist for the 2020 Design & Innovation Awards
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Social Impact, Corporate Brand Image, and People's Choice - Gold Telly Winner
Telly Awards
A BETTER WORLD / Hypergiant Industries / 2020
Gold Telly Winner - Social Video General-Social Impact
Bronze Telly Winner - Non-Broadcast General-Corporate Image
People's Telly / Silver Telly Winner - Branded Content & Entertainment & Social Video & Short Form / Social
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FastCompany World Changing Ideas General Excellence Award Finalist
FastCompany
Fast Company's World Changing Ideas awards honor products, concepts, companies, policies, and designs that are pursuing innovation for the good of society and the planet. Hypergiant is honored the EOS bioreactor is among the 2020 World Changing Ideas in the general excellence and energy category.
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Hermes Creative Awards
Hermes
Honoring the Messengers and Creators of Traditional and Emerging Media
3 Awards:
Hypergiant Research and Development: Electronic Media / Social Media / Interactive Media | Web Element | Landing Page
Hypergiant Industries: Electronic Media / Social Media / Interactive Media | Web Creative | Website Design
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The MUSE Creative Awards
MUSE
Platinum - Website - Hypergiant Industries
Gold - Corporate Identity - A Better World -
Webby Honoree
Webby
Earning the distinction of Webby Honoree, as recognized by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, is a significant achievement—granted to only the top 20% of all work entered in the 24th Annual Webby Awards.
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Great Place to Work Certification
Great Place to Work
Great Place to Work® makes it easy to survey your employees, uncover actionable insights and get recognized for your great company culture.
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Top 10 Space Tech Solution Providers
Aerospace and Defense Review
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2020 BIG Innovation Award
Business Intelligence Group
This annual business awards program recognizes organizations, products and people that are bringing new ideas to life in innovative ways. Hypergiant Industries' Eos Bioreactor won in 2020.
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Startup of the Year
One Planet Awards
Hypergiant won for work on reducing carbon at home and bringing the Internet to astronauts
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SXSW Innovation Awards
SxSW
The 23rd annual SXSW Innovation Awards recognize the most exciting tech developments in the connected world. Innovators and creators from around the world are invited to enter their eligible projects to vie for top honors in this unique, long-running SXSW competition. The competition recognized Hypergiant's R&D team as a finalist in the Climate, Culture & Social Impact category for developing the Eos Bioreactor.
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2019 Most Innovative Company of the Year
Best in Biz
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50 Most Admired Companies of The Year 2019
The Silicon Review
Top fifty of the most inspiring and admired tech companies of 2019.
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2019 50 on Fire
Austin Inno
Setting the Startup World Ablaze: Austin Inno’s 2019 50 on Fire. What makes a company or individual on fire? We’re looking at startups that have had a banner year — people and companies with new funding, recent product launches, hot hires and innovative approaches to solving problems.
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Top Ten Most Intelligent Automation Solution Providers 2019
Analytics Insight
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Entrepreneur of the Year - Technology Innovator
EY
Through the Entrepreneur Of The Year® program, we recognize and celebrate unstoppable entrepreneurs who redefine the way we live, work and play.
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Impact Award 2019
Dotcom Magazine
Impact Award 2019
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Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award
Business Intelligence Group
This business awards program sets out to recognize those organizations, products and people who bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) to life and apply it to solve real problems. Nominations were received and winners were chosen in all four of the categories of AI including Reactive Machines, Limited Memory, Theory of Mind, and Self-Awareness. Hypergiant won Theory of Mind / Small Business category.
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Excellence in AI Award
MEA (Media Excellence Awards)
The Media Excellence Awards is the only awards program in the industry of its caliber which recognizes companies that have truly set the bar of excellence with innovation and leadership in their respective fields. From leading brands to studios, carriers and startups, the Media Excellence Award organization recognizes and honors the best of the best in mobile technology, media and entertainment--from content creation to delivery--for over a decade.
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CNBC Upstart 100 - World's Top 100 Startups
CNBC
The Upstart 100 is CNBC's exclusive list of promising young start-ups, featuring a diverse group of companies that are building brands and breaking industry barriers on the path to becoming tomorrow's household names. Selected from more than 500 nominees, each one was scored on eight equally weighted quantitative metrics.
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2018 CRM Excellence Award
TMC
The judges were amazed by Flanagan's use of AI to create an intimate, personalized experience for it's customers, covering the entire customer lifecycle. TMC is a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online. All winners will be featured in TMC's premier publication, CUSTOMER magazine online.
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Awwwards Site of the Day
Awwwards
https://www.awwwards.com/sites/hypergiant
Hypergiant is the AI provider for the Fortune 500. The site's playful use of color and retrofuturistic vibe alludes to a time when we felt the future was just around the corner. -
Silver Stevie American Business Awards Startup of the Year
The American Business Awards
The Stevie® Awards are the world's premier business awards. They were created in 2002 to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide. In short order the Stevie has become one of the world's most coveted prizes.
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10 Rising Tech Stars Who Are Fueling a New Wave of Digital Insights
Adweek
From breaking new ground in artificial intelligence to promoting digital advertiser transparency, these Young Influentials are shaking up the tech world.
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2017 Fastest-Growing Company of the Year
Best in Biz Awards
Honored for Conversable to win 2017 Fastest-Growing Company of the Year from @BestinBizAwards competing with 300+ companies & 30 countries
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Silver Stevie American Business Awards Tech Startup of the Year
American Business Awards
The Stevie® Awards are the world's premier business awards. They were created in 2002 to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide.
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W³ Award for Chaotic Moon / AMD Gizmosphere
W³ Award - The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts
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W³ award for Chaotic Moon / Pizza Hut Interactive Table
W³ Award - The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts
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Best Interactive Kiosk/Public Exhibit
Horizon Interactive Awards
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The Austin Energy Technology & Innovation Award
Austin Business Journal
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Best Website Award
Austin Chronicle
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Most Innovative Company (Scale Category)
Austin Chamber of Commerce
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Best Place to Work in Austin
Austin Business Journal
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Webby for Lifestyle Category (Tablet and All Other Devices)
Webby
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Best Office
Office Snapshots
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Gigaom’s Most Innovative Companies of 2012
Gigaom
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