Language Weaver's machine-translation software aids homeland security.
Bryce Benjamin knew a winner when he saw one. It was December 2001, and the infotech entrepreneur was meeting with two professors who were starting a company to commercialize "statistical machine translation." Their breakthrough: software that could learn automatically to translate text from one language into another.
Benjamin believed the technology was desperately needed for purposes of both homeland security and business communication. The company's location -- on the water in sunny Marina del Rey, CA -- didn't hurt either. "I looked out at the view," he says, "and I thought, 'This deal has a lot of promise.'"
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