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 talks with the Director of Personalized Medicine for Life Technologies, Linh Hoang, about personalized medicine, and what that means for a breast cancer study with just 14 select women.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about cybercrime with Wired editor and author, Kevin Poulsen, about his new book Kingpin, How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Paul Chew, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer for the US division of Sanofi-Aventis, touching on the latest from Diabetes to triple-negative breast cancer. She then talks with Chris Stern, CEO of Oxygen Biotherapeutics about their innovative oxygen carriers.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and Managing Director for Alchemy Growth Partners, Mehrdad Baghai, about his new book, As One: Individual Action, Collective Power. Published in Feburary 2011, this book is already being heralded as the key to unleashing lost productivity, hidden potential in people, and the inspiring power of purpose.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns about two vaccines: the first intended for prevention and the second, for people already infected with HIV, from Geovax President and CEO, Robert McNally.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and investigative journalist, Seth Mnookin about the "bad science" which improperly suggested a link between vaccinations and autism.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with respected trends forecaster, Daniel Burrus about his new book, Flash Foresight, where he introduces the concept of harnessing ones sixth sense.
Dr.Moira Gunn talks first with Eric Lawson, Director of Regulatory Affairs for Voisin and OJ Bio CEO, Dale Athey about advances in diagnostic testing. She then chances up with Paul Weinberger, Chief Marketing Officer, Lumora about their fast DNA and RNA testing from a small device.
Dr. Moira gun dives into the theoretical physics with Professor Brian Greene from the pages of his new book, The Hidden Reality … Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. In it, he takes readers through theories of multiple universes, of the continual birth of universes, starting long before our own.
Dr. Moria Gunn talks with Jim Davis, Executive Vice President at Human Genome Sciences, about a strategic national stockpile of anti-anthrax treatments.
