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 speaks with Dr. Auke Ijspeert from EPFL, the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. Ijspeert works on biologically-inspiried robotics, and explains why he builds animal and human robots to study their biology.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Erik Larson, author of "The Devil in the White City" and "Thunderstruck," about the development of wireless technology by Marconi and how it played a role in the transatlantic hunt for a murderer. It was the 1890's and London was the most powerful city on earth.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks to Ken Snowden, the Co-Director of the Life Sciences Cluster at Scottish Enterprise, about the unique way Scotland can play a role in biotech.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with career entrepreneur and author Mark Thompson, who is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford Business School. Thompson talks about some 200 people he spoke to who have either built organizations or launched crusades - personal success built for a lifetime.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Jim Hudson, the director of the Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. Hudson explains how they plan to make Alabama a mecca of biotech.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Sean Carroll, genetics professor and author of the book "The Making of the Fittest." Carroll discusses how close a human is to a baboon, and why geneticists are interested in Neanderthal DNA.
Dr. Tony Giordano, director of the Biotechnology program at LSU Bioscience Center, speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn about a brand new degree - a PhD in Biotech.
Tech Nation's Dr. Moira Gunn moderates the 1st Annual Science Laureates Town Hall. A contingent of international science journalists, including Jason Pontin, the Editor-in-Chief of Technology Review magazine and Clive Cookson from the Financial Times of London, talk with Purdue University professors from Earth and Atmospheric Science to Engineering, from Agriculture to Libraries. The topic? The major scientific issues that need addressing today. The impact of the Internet on science itself. The needs of the common person. And the needs of society.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with award-winning science writer, Tom Siegfried. Author of "A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, And The Modern Quest for a Code of Nature," Siegfried talks about Game Theory - its beginnings with John von Neumann, to the work of John Nash, whom so many know through the movie "A Beautiful Mind."
Eden BioDesign's CEO, Crawford Brown, speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn about how they help innovative ideas move out of the lab and into the biobusiness life-cycle.
