The CBC is an interdisciplinary brain trust that brings together USC’s Keck School of Medicine and our world-renowned School of Cinematic Arts with the university’s schools of Business and Engineering. Our purpose is to creatively synthesize medicine, engineering, business, communications, and entertainment arts into new paradigms that will innovatively enhance the quality of life, especially for the 2 billion people worldwide who lack access to healthcare.

Third part of a series by Vinod Khosla on technology disruptions, looking at technology and education

Vinod Khosla talks about the potential to disrupt with AI technologies as part of a 3 part series.

1989 NY Times article about the decline in returns of venture capital.

Part of a three part series of posts by Vinod Khosla. Talks about the potential of technology to disrupt healthcare.

Connecting science and technology research to grand challenges.

Vertical timelines of predicted technology advances

Robots and telepresences in business, medicine and other locations.

Silicon Valley compared to Boston's cluster of high tech - the key difference was in the structure of the network people had.

Dyson video re: the 'bladeless fan' and Britain and innovation

A little wearable device that tracks activity and sleep patterns

Chris Anderson on the business model of 'free'

Ideas on future development of SL

RFID parallel in SecondLife - using detection of objects to augment data in the HUD

Interview with Philip Rosedale about Second Life

Junior incubator for young engineers and scientists