Ethnicity, Inc

eCopy, Inc

Genentech, Inc

How did it start? It began in 1976 with a meeting over a glass of beer between Bob Swanson, then a bright young venture capitalist, and Herb Boyer (UCSF), who with Stan Cohen (Stanford) had just performed some of the key experiments of recombinant DNA technology. The meeting is now immortalized in a brass statue in the new Founders’ Research Center. Genentech was founded later that year, and cl...

EntreMed, Inc

Golgi reported an " internal reticular apparatus " in neurons — a structure now known as the Golgi apparatus. Although this is by far his best-remembered work, Golgi made many other important scientific discoveries in his lifetime (1843–1926), and in 1906 shared the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine with Santiago Ramón y Cajal for their studies on the structure of the nervous system. As we...

Lucid, Inc.

Multiprocessing programming languages must support the styles of programming that are natural to the programmer, and they must be able to express all of the forms of concurrency that exist. Qlisp, a dialect of Lisp, is proposed as a multiprocessing programming language which is suitable for studying the styles of parallel programming. There are two sorts of parallelism in Qlisp: 1) the true par...

Carotech Inc