Topic: Science and Technology (general)
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with Dusa Pharmaceuticals President and CEO, Bob Doman to talk about a new treatment for sunspots, a common term for pre-cancerous skin lesions.
Kirk Skaugen presents Intel's perspective on the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. He does not use this dry definition of web analytics, but instead points out that 245 exabytes of data were sent over the internet in 2010, more than for the entire history of the web. It included forty-hours of YouTube video uploaded per minute, 200 million tweets a day, and 7.5 billion photos uploaded per month. Quality and speed are increasing, and costs are shrinking.
Spectrum, according to Michael Calabrese, is an infinitely renewable resource. However, exclusive use, auctions, and large corporations lead to a massively inefficient use of that spectrum for communication. In this talk, the Vice President and Director of the Wireless Future Program presents how spectrum has been divided, discusses contemporary difficulties, and suggests a few solutions that would lead to opportunistic and efficient usage of air space.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Robert McLay about how virtual reality is helping those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with Martin McGlynn, President and CEO of Stem Cells Inc. to talk about how stem cells are being used to treat everything from spinal cord injury and age-related macular degeneration.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the process behind engineering new vaccines by typing DNA sequences into a computer with Inovio Pharmaceuticals CEO, Joseph Kim.
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with John Latham, Chief Scientific Officer for Alder Biopharmaceuticals, about how they are winning the fight against migraines.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the new book, Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us about Health and the Science of Healing, with author and UCLA Cardiology Professor, Barbara Natterson Horowitz.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about new vaccines for neglected diseases and about a handheld device which can detect disease on the spot with the CEOs from Inviragen and Opko Diagnostics, Dan Stinchcomb and David Steinmiller.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the extent of our obsession with technology and how to overcome it from research psychologist and author, Larry Rosen, from his new book, iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us.
