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 interviews journalist and author Robert Kaplan, who wrote "Imperial Grunts" about the vast reach of American military presence worldwide. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Wen Jiang, Professor of Surgery and Tumour Biology and the Head of the Metastasis & Angiogenesis Research Group at the Cardiff University in Wales. He tells us how he developed a new predictive test for those with the unfortunate diagnosis of breast cancer. [BioTech audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Ann Winblad, co-founding partner of Hummer-Winblad Venture Partners and Laura Merling, CEO of SDForum. They discuss the global reality of both funding new software and then building it. Is it surprising? All roads lead to Silicon Valley. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Peter Boatwright, professor, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and the author of "The Design of Things to Come -- How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products." [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. David Gee, Commercial Director, MNL Pharma, Ltd., about how simple sugars might yield a therapeutic effect in the fight against everything from diabetes to cancer. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Graham Hawkes, an engineer and explorer, the solo ocean dive record holder, and president of Hawkes Ocean Technologies. They talk about his quest to drive a submersible to the very bottom of the ocean, some seven miles down, as well as the very different experience of his underwater flight school. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Brad Matsen, National Geographic producer and author of "Descent -- The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss." [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Amit Sachdev, the Executive Vice President for Health BIO, The Biotechnology Industry Organization. They talk about proposals for increased measures to ensure safety *after* a drug has been approved. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Warfield Simpson, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Natural Resources, Ohio State University, and the author of 'Dam! -- Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park.' He relates the technical -- and political -- tale which enabled the tiny city of San Francisco to dam an entire mountain valley some 200 miles away, a sister valley to the famous Yosemite -- all in the name of progress. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with James Powerll, Executive Director, National Physical Science Consortium, and the author of "Grand Canyon -- Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle." He tells us about the controversy around the beginnings of the Grand Canyon, and the present and future of its now-aging Glen Canyon dam. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
