Digest #153



Here's the news you need to know.

This week you can find out how two UCSC linguistics professors are making sense out of talk fragments. It's a nuanced engineering problem that's much easier for humans than for machines. AgTech startups: Western Growers (WG) has officially launched their second annual Innovation Arena Competition. Apply by Sept 29. Nextspace has launched a second coworking space is San Jose in partnership with the SJSC Chamber of Commerce. Of course, there's more.

Thanks to Physicians Medical Group for becoming our newest partner! PMG invites the community to the Indie Biz Expo on Thursday, Sept 15, 4:30-7:30 at Cocoanut Grove.

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Sara Isenberg
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Santa Cruz Tech Beat

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