Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
IT Conversations: 'technation'
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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.
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Phil Zimmermann - The Zfone Project
Moira speaks with Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, the most-widely used email encryption software in the world. In his latest effort, the Zfone Project, Phil enables any two individuals to carry our a secure telephone call over the Internet.
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Episode 62 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss software updates, the power of APIs and plugins, and leading by example.
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Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - Browser Wars Revisited
Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer of Mozilla discuss the status of browser development, particularly as it relates to Firefox. They review a number of current open development tools as well as the specifications for HTML 5, particularly as they relate to video. They also talk about Google Chrome, both a …
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Mary Ann Cotter - Cooking Capsules and the New Digital Lifestyle
Android is the new player in the smartphone segment and the Android Developer Challenge gave its winners cash and exposure from the launch of the platform. In this talk from 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Mary Ann Cotter, founder of one of the top 20 applications, Cooking Capsules, descri …
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Mike Douglass, Steven Lees - XML iCalendar
Theres a new effort to define an XML representation for iCalendar, the venerable standard for exchanging calendar information. In this interview, host Jon Udell talks with the authors of the proposed specification -- Mike Douglass and Steven Lees -- about why its needed, what kinds of problems it wi …
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Mike Fisher, Tony Cass - Nanotechnology
Moira Gunn discusses nanotechnology with Dr. Mike Fisher of Bio Nano Consulting and Tony Cass, professor of chemical biology at the Imperial College, London. They review both its reality and its potential.
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James Lovelock - The Gaia Theory
Moira speaks with author and scientist James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia Theory. Once controversial, it has reached mainstream acceptance, and he has more predictions now.
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Episode 61 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff sit down with Miguel de Icaza of the Mono project to discuss Mono, Silverlight / Moonlight, and the pros and cons of open sourcing your code.
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Michael DeHaan - Cobbler
Michael DeHaan discusses Cobbler, a Linux server that can be used to set up networks quickly. He gives the background of the project and reviews how it is installed and used. He talks about developing software in an open source environment. Michael also discusses where he wants to go with the projec …
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Rich Wolski - EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Usef …
Cloud computing can be a powerful tool in academic research but the costs associated with commercial implementations and the established hardware available at most universities has left a gap in the development of solutions for academic environments. Join Rich Wolski, a Professor of Computer Science …
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Dara O'Rourke - GoodGuide.com
Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor Dara ORourke, founder of GoodGuide.com. He tells us what it takes to understand the impact of everything we use, requiring the tracking of the global supply chain.
Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
