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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Some technology companies founded and headquartered in the United States aren't outsourcing to India and China, but are spreading technology centers around the world instead. Ron Levy, CTO of BEA Systems Inc., explains to Dr. Moira Gunn how BEA is making things work when their staff works in wildly different time zones.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lyn Beazley, the Chief Scientist of Western Australia. As it turns out, Beazley is the first woman to be assigned to that position.
On this Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn about a familiar topic: having your DNA read. Duncan explains that -- like many things in the BioTech world -- there's more to it than that.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the founders of two new ventures.Guy Kawasaki, with his much-maligned new venture: truemors - dot - com and the creation of an MIT sophomore: booktour.com.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn looks at pediatric biotech. Dr. Tom Anderson from Pediatric Bioscience talks about progress with autism and Asperger's Syndrome, and David Ewing Duncan presents the new scientific findings on coffee - big news... if you're a woman.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Geoff Moore and David Thompson about how Web 2.0 is seamlessly taking the high tech lives of our young people right into the workplace.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Jenny Harry, who talks about the latest developments in a semen-based prostate cancer test, while David Ewing Duncan talks about a longevity pill.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Richard Morgan about what life may be like after a hundred years of biotech. Morgan explains we'll have gotten plenty right and plenty wrong.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Belinda Clarke, who talks about the latest in European thinking on genetically modified everything. Also, learn about wallabies in Australia that are helping in the fight against drug resistant bacteria.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with David Kaplan, senior editor at Newsweek, about the newest, niftiest, technology-stretching, sailing yacht today - and why a person would spend $130 million building it.
