Janos Sztipanovits receives USAF honor

Janos Sztipanovits recently received the US Air Force's Meritorious Civilian Service Award for, among other things, chairing a study on defending and operating in a contested cyber-domain. He is director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. VUSE's release is here. VentureNashville's previous story on ISIS.

Venture Catchup

My conversation with a VC here, yesterday, brought a reminder the decks are awash with dealflow. It's a buyer's market. Okay, not news. Meanwhile, we, too, have been busy. And tense, if not scared. Pls catch up: Congressman Jim Cooper is staking a bigger claim in the entertainment, patents, copyrights area... CEO, Author, Teacher Rick Oliver is diving into the dealflow with his own D-round American Learning Solutions offering... PassAlong CEO Dave Jaworski really should just be a VC/PE guy, because he's announcing before the close a $30MM round, the kind of touting only a guy who's already raised $40MM-plus can do... Janos Sztipanovits, one of the top scientists leading the exodus from the VU campus to Music Row, is pretty direct about Nashville needing to get its sci-tech act together... Meanwhile, over at SiteMason, co-founders Moses and Conner look as relaxed as two SNL veterans waiting for their cue... Anything going on at your place?

ISIS: Software as Science

At 9:25 a.m. next Friday, Sept. 19, Janos Sztipanovits will attempt to summarize in a few minutes the past, present and future of the extraordinary Institute for Software Integrated Systems at the School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University. If that feat, alone, isn't enough to attract your attention, browse through some of the most important projects underway in the software world today. The occasion: ISIS' 10th Anniversary. As reported earlier on the VN website, ISIS and its chief will soon also be host here in Nashville for a major meeting of computer-language researchers and developers.