Novelist Victor LaValle says that the job of a journalist is to report the facts.
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Once a week, librarian Mary LaValle meets a friend at the nearby McDonald's after work.
It is a competence that several soldiers, or former ones such as LaValle, have leveraged back home.
As Oculus' full-time principle scientist, LaValle will be working on things like sensor fusion, magnetic drift correction, and kinematic modeling.
"There was a popular game between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears at the start of the season, " recalls LaValle.
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The Iraqi and Afghan wars, LaValle says, have forced men and women to operate in situations with a high level of uncertainty.
LaValle says Row 44 has a head start and is already deploying service in Europe, with an eye toward the Middle East and Asia.
"We view handheld devices as a very, very important market segment and intend to provide robust solutions for those customers, " says Row 44 Chief Operating Officer John LaValle.
Setting aside the notion that good journalism captures both fact and emotion, LaValle illuminates a distinction that eludes many senior managers and may account for why many change initiatives fail.
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The Oculus team just got bigger by two, with software engineer Tom Forsyth, formerly of Valve, and robotic scientist Dr. Steve LaValle of the University of Illinois both jumping on board.
The idea to collect and analyze buying habits of grocery store customers came to LaValle and He while both worked brutal hours in the technology group for the investment giant Morgan Stanley in late 2009.
LaValle, a West Point grad, former Army infantry platoon leader and Afghan war veteran, has dived head-on into the life of start-ups along with Tian He to launch Gojee.com, a food technology platform.
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