Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
IT Conversations: 'technation'
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Dr. Malcolm Devine - Robust Plants
Moira interviews Dr. Malcome Devine of Performance Plants, a Canadian firm that is tinkering with plants to make them more robust.
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Episode 65 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss lessons from a year of building Stack Overflow, the mysteries of COBOL, some YSlow website optimizations, and magic numbers.
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Stephen Elop - A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly
For those who thought Microsoft had become a sleeping giant resting on the laurels of its popular Office franchise, Stephen Elop has news for you. In this frank discussion with Tim OReilly, Elop discusses Microsofts intention to embrace interoperability and apply the results to its business model.
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Mark Roettgering - The Economics of Mobility: The Communications Value-System at the Dawn of a New …
Is the traditional economic structure of the wireless communications space finally coming to an end? In this talk from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Mark Roettgering, Lead Director of Corporate Strategy at T-Mobile examines the fundamental sources of value creation in the mobile valu …
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Simon Perkins - HTTPWatch
HTTPWatch is a commercial add-in for Internet Explorer that provides detailed statistics on HTTP traffic. In this presentation from the 2008 Velocity conference, Simon Perkins of Simtec Limited demos HTTPWatch and outlines its key features, including the ability to see the effect of local caching a …
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Sarah Dunant - Sacred Hearts
Moira speaks with Sarah Dunant, the bestselling author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan. Her new novel, Sacred Hearts, takes place in a 16th century Italian convent. The story helps to give a view of the medical science and technology of the day.
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Dr. Andrew Balber, Dr. Nicholas Goeders - Biotech Advances
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Andrew Balber, Chief Scientific Officer of Aldagen about the concept of banking mature stems cells, as well as LSU professor Dr. Nicholas Goeders about a new approach to treating addictions.
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Steve Portigal - "We did all this research ... now what?"
User research often catalogs findings and implications, but stops short of generating specific design improvements. Designers increasingly involved with contextual research may find themselves holding onto a trove of raw data but with little awareness of how to turn it into design. Steve Portigal i …
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Episode 64 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss the disappointment of Google AdWords, the difference in skillset between programmers and testers, and the value of standards groups to working programmers.
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Brandon Martin-Anderson - Maps in Four Dimensions
One drawback of most maps is that they only show two dimensions. In this program from Where 2.0, Brandon Martin-Anderson discusses examples of maps which attempt to depict events in three or four dimensions.
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Cathy Marshall - Personal Digital Management
Cathy Marshall is fascinated by how people manage, and avoid managing, their digital stuff. In this conversation with host Jon Udell she discusses her research on the efficacy of Flickr tags for image retrieval, and explains why were rediscovering the virtues of loss and forgetting.
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Sir Michael Rawlins - Health Care in Great Britain
Moira talks with Sir Michael Rawlins, the chair of the United Kingdoms National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence. He discusses how Britain makes decisions on how medical treatments are determined for individuals.
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Lars Hansen - Corn Ethanol
Dr. Moira Gunn discusses corn ethanol with Lars Hansen, President & CEO of Novozymes North America. He reviews how corn ethanol can affect the overall price of food.
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Episode 63 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss the Mythical Man Month problem, keeping communication in check, Windows 7, and web scaling.
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Mark Carges - Accessible Business
"Code against the eBay and PayPal APIs; make money," is Mark Carges message to developers. About eight years ago eBay realized that there was a huge business potential in providing an economic opportunity for developers to leverage their API. Today, there are 85,000 developers that code ag …
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Ed Fontana - Interval of Interest and the Mobile Experience
Like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff, the banking, real estate, and other major industries in the U.S. are realizing too late that their inability to take into account changing demographics has caused the economy to suffer. In this program, Ed Fontana shows the need to look ahead and examine proc …
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Harald Prokop - How to Accelerate Non-cacheable, Dynamic Sites Leveraging a Globally Distributed Pl …
In this talk from the OReilly Velocity Conference, Harald Prokop of Akamai describes the design principles and architecture of the Akamai network and how it enables the Internet to deliver large libraries of HD content and accelerates dynamic transactions.
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Michael S. Dunn - Semantic Technology Conference
Mike Dunn, a veteran technologist in the media industry, recently attended and spoke at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. In this episode he and host Jon Udell review the highlights of the conference and discuss some emerging practical uses of semantic tools and techniques.
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Bruce Jennett - Defining Biotechnology
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Bruce Jenett, Co-Chair, Global Life Sciences Sector of DLA Piper about his a definition of biotechnology that anyone can understand.
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Larry Lessig - Current Laws and the Internet
Moira speaks with Stanford Law professor Larry Lessig about trying to make our old laws work with the new technology of the Internet.
Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
