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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CO2 exists everywhere in our environment. On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lalit Chordia, about carbon dioxide's use in any number of products.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, about the origin of CAPTCHAs on the internet - those squiggly series of letters which help us prove we are human.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Terry Collins about endocrine disruptors, and a new technique used to take minute traces of these materials out of our drinking water.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Avid Biotics' CEO Dave Martin, one of the many people looking to find solutions to rapidly rising staph infections.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Jigsaw's CEO, Jim Fowler, about keeping an online, global directory with millions of business contacts up to date.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with InterMune's CEO, Daniel Welch, about bringing their innovative therapies for Hepatitis C and Osteoporosis to market.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Genomic Health's President Kim Popovits, about the importance of diagnostics: matching particular cancers to effective therapies.
From the Tech Nation archives: the 1993 interview with Sir Edmund Hillary, who together with Tenzing Norgay in 1953 was first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Neil Shubin, provost of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He describes our 'inner fish,' a journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the human body.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn takes a look at the state of BioTech in the world's largest BioTech cluster - the San Francisco bay area - together with BayBIO's Matt Gardner.
