The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day, January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
2014 Mobile Development Day: Welcome and Opening remark by Laura Frerichs
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2014 Mobile Development Day: Ms. Mobile meet Mr. Big Data by J Schwan
The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day, January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
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2014 Mobile Development Day: Hot topics in User Experience
Panel Discussion on the Hot topics in User Experience. Panel members: Jed Taylor- Technology Entrepreneurship Cell; Ted Novak - Clique Studio, Derek Nelson - Clique Studio, Randy Ellis - Locallux, Daniel Newman - Wolfram Research.
The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day, January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
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Crowdfunding
Background on Crowdfunding: Singleton Law Firm presentation at EnterpriseWorks
Presentation
Video
Examples of EnterpriseWorks Client Kickstarter Successful Campaigns:
Oso Technologies
Electroninks
Making an Effective Kickstarter Campaign: Advice from PitchSlap, marketing firm for Kickstarter and viral campaigns
Create authentic content, it is personal and about appealing to specific audiences and selling the founders and application area. Relies on blind faith investment. What's your story? What your product can do is most important, show the application and what you can make possible, not what your technology is. Find the niche area where your product fits and where there are some other known cool products.
There is a methodology and rationale to what works based on proven market research. Storytelling has a process and people react in predictable ways. Crunch the data.
Understand how people scroll down and pay attention to videos and photos vs text. Users don't read much.
Most popular backer level is $25, should have a prize for that. Want a cheap option to accumulate backers. $50 is average pledge, so be realistic.
Match prizes to goals
Prizes must be high value to your target audience (not t-shirts) Low maintenance, but high margins Early bird specials create timeliness and limit number available Don't forget about shipping and labor to deliver Have price jumps between them: not too many different options 20% of money raised goes to prizes
30% percent of projects reach 30% of goal, which is the tipping point. Once you are fully funded, you will also get press and a new group of backers. Target marketing in stages, try to start with friends and family.
Text over video is a low cost way to make a high quality video. Audio quality is hard and people judge product based on this.
Social Media Strategy:
Continuous communication
Need shareable original content - GIFS (short repeating video clip), photos, video stories Need a Facebook page and Twitter account for your product
Outreach to press at a personal level with personal messages to journalists or bloggers that cover your niche. Make your content easy for them to publish quickly: the angle, concise, quotes, images. For example, there are specific writers that follow the makers movement. Appeal to niche communities.
Good examples: MakeyMakey, CircuitScribe, Lumio
Show how your product works with another Kickstarter funded project to leverage each other.
Kickstarter has strict rules:
No charity projects, limits on software for Kickstarter Must reach full goal to keep $ raised They don't like Stretch goals If you violate their rules, they will take you down from staff picks and other promotion
IndieGoGo and CrowdSupply are other good options. BetaBrand is a niche for clothing.
PitchSlap started by two young anthropology grads from Columbia in NYC. Did documentaries before Kickstarter campaigns. Understanding niche communities and affinity groups is critical to their success. http://www.pitchslap.tv/
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2014 Mobile Development Day: Internet of Things and Mobile Development
Panel Discussion on Internet of Things. Panel members: Peter Tapling - Authentify, Edwardo Torrealba - Osho Technologies, Gino Corrales Delgao - Caterpillar
The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day, January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
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2014 Mobile Development Day: Mobile as an interface of everything by LexTech
The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day on January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
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2014 Mobile Development Day: Android Development Class by William Seeman
The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day on January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
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2014 Mobile Development Day: Panel Discussion on Corporate Mobile
The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day on January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
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2014 Mobile Development Day: Panel Discussion on Mobil Entrepreneurship
The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day on January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
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2014 Mobile Development Day: Panel Discussion on e-mobile vs Web
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Software Engineer
Company Name:
Category:
Software Engineering
Status:
Full-Time
Contact Email:
info@phioptics.com
Description:
Phi Optics (www.phioptics.com), a start-up company developing novel optical microscopy for live cell imaging, has an immediate opening for a talented and highly motivated software engineer. The engineer will design and develop software to be used in a new generation of optical microscopes.
The ideal candidate has a BS/MS degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering and experience in software/GUI development using
- C/C++
- NVIDIA CUDA
- MATLAB
- OpenCV
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Digia Qt
Preference will be given to candidates familiar with device programming, numerical analysis, and image processing. Salaries are commensurate with experience and stock options are available.
Phi Optics is an Equal Opportunity employer. Please send your resume to: Phi Optics, Inc. 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL 61820 or by email, to info@phioptics.com.
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2014 Mobile Development Day: Panel Discussion on Science Mobile
The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day on January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
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2014 Mobile Development Day. Traffic Turk- Monitoring traffic during extreme congestion events
by Dan Work, Assistant Professor, UofI
The University of Illinois Research Park hosted its second annual Mobile Development Day on January 31, 2014 at the iHotel and Conference Center. The day-long conference highlighted mobile development work happening in the Champaign-Urbana community, which includes industry and academia.
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Part Time Student - Mobile Application Development - Champaign, IL
Company Name:
Category:
Administrative/Support Services
Status:
Part-Time
Contact Email:
CollegeRecruiting@JohnDeere.com
Description:
What You’ll Do
The Part-Time Student Program is primarily designed to augment the Company's regular full-time staff, and is for students who work in parallel to their school schedule. Major duties include:
- Developing mobile applications for Web, Native IOS, Native Android or Hybrid platforms
- Collaborating across a global team
Qualifications
What It TakesWe need excellent communicators, who thrive on solving problems and working in a team environment. Ideally, you will be pursuing a degree in Information Systems or Computer Science; others may qualify. In addition we require:
- Must be registered as a full-time student
- Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
- Grad date – May 2015 or later
- Cumulative GPA of 2.8 and above
- 16 - 20 hours/week during the academic year
- 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
- Experience with a minimum one programming language
A strong candidate will also have:
- Proven ability to develop a mobile application
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
- 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester
- 16 - 20 hours/week during the academic year
- Cumulative GPA of 2.8 and above
- Grad date – May 2015 or later
- Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
To apply click here:
https://johndeere.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=50577686&lan...
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John Deere Technology Innovation Center To Double in Size at Research Park
Tenant:
CHAMPAIGN, IL - The John Deere Technology Innovation Center (JDTIC) located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Research Park will double in size to accommodate growth and further leverage the skills and knowledge of faculty and students in the areas of agriculture, business, engineering, and information technology.
The Center employs students and full time professionals to advance innovation, research, and information technology for John Deere.
“Innovation is at the core of what John Deere has stood for in its entire 176-year history,” said John Reid, director of product technology and innovation. “Our customers depend on Deere to develop innovative solutions that enhance their productivity. Our work with strategic university partners, such as the University of Illinois, helps us deliver these integrated solutions for John Deere customers.”
Through the technology innovation center and the relationship with the University of Illinois, Deere gains access to students and academic experts from a broad range of domain areas, including engineering, agronomy, computer science, statistics, industrial design, psychology and information library sciences.
Klaus Hoehn, vice president of advanced technology and engineering at Deere, said, “Expanding the technology innovation facility at the University of Illinois enhances John Deere’s capability to lead innovation efforts in technology and engineering. In addition, this effort helps John Deere attract highly skilled talent from a leading university.”
The expansion provides the needed space to further integrate undergraduate and graduate students working on John Deere's technology efforts. It embraces an agile working environment to increase collaboration and project team flexibility. Through this investment, Deere can enhance its focus on greater innovation in the areas of information technology, user experience, advanced algorithm science, mobile solutions, agronomy, and high performing computing.
“From their first days in the Research Park, John Deere has been a valued partner to the students and faculty the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a catalyst for ongoing social and economic development in the local community. Whether through their employment of our students or their engagement with our researchers, their presence here has made Illinois a more productive university and a more attractive home for new staff and faculty. We are pleased to see this relationship grow even stronger with this expansion of the John Deere Technology Innovation Center (JDTIC) at our Research Park,” said Chancellor Phyllis Wise.
The John Deere Technology Innovation Center in Champaign delivers customer- centered solutions in the agriculture production system through focused research, accelerated incubation, and differentiated experience.
Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is a world leader in providing advanced products and services and is committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land - those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world's dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure. For more information, visit John Deere at its worldwide website at www.JohnDeere.com.
Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. Located on campus, the Research Park at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a technology hub for startup companies and corporate research and development operations.
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John Deere Expands Research Park Operation
JOHN DEERE EXPANDS INNOVATION CENTER: Research Park operation to further leverage skills and knowledge in agriculture, business, engineering, and information technology.
Category:
Student Research
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Projection Mapping Startup Lumenous Generating Early Buzz
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Tenant:
Lumenous, a startup founded by three University of Illinois doctoral students, is already generating buzz within weeks of moving into EnterpriseWorks. The company was profiled in the (Champaign-Urbana) News-Gazette's Sunday business section on March 16.
The "dream team" of computer science students is making software that makes it faster and easier for advertisers, artists and designers to create fantastic visual illusions.
"Lumenous intends to devise a suite of tools that make it easy to create content — bringing the technology to a broader audience and at a lower price level.
"It should be as easy as (playing) a video game," Karsch said. "It's not like using Photoshop. This will be much more intuitive."
Sodhi said Lumenous doesn't have a product release date yet, but he looks for a prototype to be developed by the end of summer and a product release to come "within one or two years."
Read the complete article at the News-Gazette's website.
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Local Press Highlights EP Purification's Ozone Generator
Category:
Tenant:
EP Purification, a startup commercializing microplasma technology developed at the University of Illinois, was profiled in the (Champaign-Urbana) News-Gazette Sunday edition on March 23.
The startup was founded by Gary Eden and Sung-Jin Park, both faculty members at the University of Illinois. It is a finalist in the upcoming Clean Entergy Trust competition.
The company already has customers and is working with a local company to develop its user base.
" .... using microplasma technology, EP Purification has developed ozone generators that are smaller and more efficient than conventional ozone generators.For one of the first applications of the technology, the company hopes to incorporate the device in laundry treatment systems."
Read the entire article online via the News-Gazette's website.
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After Hours 03182014 1
The Research Park and and the Computer Science Department put on on an "after-hours" event on 18th March, 2014 to showcase the opportunities in Champaign-Urbana for tech jobs for Computer Science and Computer Engineering majors.
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Inscites Research, Inc.
60 Hazelwood Drive
Champaign
Illinois
61820
314-922-5151
goldman@inscites.com
Friday, March 28, 2014
Company Overview:
Inscites is a National Science Foundation funded digital start-up developed by scientists to integrate into a researchers workflow and allow easy/secure knowledge curation and collaboration. By leveraging digital technologies, Inscites increases the return on investment on research spending.
Building:
Company Category:
Software/Hardware
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