Tech Nation with Moira Gunn
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Dr. Moira Gunn is the host of Public Radio's Tech
Nation, where she has conducted over 2,000 interviews with space pioneers
and cyber-novelists, venture capitalists and genetics researchers, teachers
and technophobes. A former NASA scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn is a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Tech Museum of Innovation and
the Tech Awards' Global Leadership Council, and has served as a member
of the Awards Selection Committee for the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue
University, she also holds advanced degrees in Computer Science and a
software technical patent. Dr. Gunn is regularly asked to speak on the
Impact of Technology on Society, on the Current and Projected State of
Global Technology Penetration, and on her experience as a Woman in Technology,
Science and Engineering.
Between 2004 and 2012 The Conversations Network published 748 podcast episodes
of Technation. Look for them and more-recent programs on the
Tech Nation website (http://technation.com).
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Dr. Moira Gunn gets up to speed on advances in nanotechnology with Roland Germann from IBM's Nanotechnology Center Operations and Lord Alec Broers, Chairman, Diamond Light Source, while author Robert Vamosi looks at gadget security.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with New York Times best-selling author, Lisa See, about her new book, Dreams of Joy, and where she looks at the impact of questionable science in China during the Great Leap Forward.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Randy Schatzman and Mark Litton from Alder Biopharmceuticals about they procedure for treating wasting disease as a part of cancer treatment.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the history, the challenges and the issues of getting medicine to people versus the legal guarantees of drugs patents with World Trade Organization representatives, Keith Rockwell and Antony Taubman.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Pulitzer Prize winning author and New York Times journalist, Matt Richtel about his new thriller, Devil's Plaything, where he marries an exquisite nightmare with true science.
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with Senior Vice President of Business Development at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Paul Laikind, about how non-profit research works with not-for-profit biotech.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with WCG CTO and Media Officer, Bob Pearson, about how buying online has changed from E-Commerce to Pre-Commerce.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the new science of longevity from Columnist and Author, David Duncan.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Baxter International Chief Scientific Officer, Norbert Riedel, about what hospitals will look like in the future.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the emergence and power behind opinion space with craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media at UC Berkeley, Ken Goldberg.
