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 Anders Zachrisson, Senior Vice President,
BioGaia, about the scientific studies testing "pro-biotics." He tells us about the scientific studies looking at probiotics, which are increasing in popularity today from Scandinavia to Asia. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn spoeaks with Andrew Fraknoi, the chairman of the Astronomy Program at Foothill College, who explains why we're finding all those new planets, and the big fight about what's a planet and what isn't. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Daniel Liebowitz, author of "The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo." He talks about Henry Stanley, famous for his line "Dr. Livingston, I presume," and relates the story of Stanley's Last and Questionable Expedition to Africa, what he calls his Mad Journey through the Congo. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Anders Zachrisson, senior vice president of BioGaia, on the science of "pro-biotics," the flip side to antibiotics. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews the founder, Executive Producer and Fearless Leader of IT Conversations, Doug Kaye. They talk about the history of IT Conversations and this new phenomenon of Podcasting. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Daniel Imhoff, the Executive Director of Watershed Media and the author of "Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World." You'll think twice the next time you pick up a blister pack of pills. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira interviews Dr. David Sretavan, Professor, Opthamology & Physiology and Program in Neuroscience at UCSF who returns to tell us about the knife that cuts nerve endings one-fiftieth the width of a human hair. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Leslie Berlin, Silicon Valley Archivist at Stanford University and author of "The Man Behind the Microchip" about the life of Robert Noyce, the man who co-invented the integrated circuit, the essential technology behind every little chip in your life today. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Robert Shelton, Managing Director for Innovation at Navigant Consulting and the co-author of "Making Innovation Work." While anyone can readily spot a breakthrough product and know that innovation has occurred, what can be puzzling is how it happens. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. David Sretavan, Professor of Opthamology and Physiology and Program in Neuroscience at UCSF. He tells us how we might actually fuse severed nerve endings back together -- nerve endings one-fiftieth the width of a human hair. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
