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 talks with scientist Ananda Chakabarty, who holds the first US Life Science Patent on a bacteria treatment for Cancer.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks up with Management Science and Engineering professor, Bob Sutton about his new book, Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst. In it, he reveals how the best bosses take diverse and intertwined steps to create effective and humane workplaces, and offers tips on taking control, getting and giving credit appropriately, taking responsibility, staying in tune with employees, and squelching your potential inner jerk.
Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with Tim Rodell, President and CEO of GlobeImmune, which is working on a way to boost treatment for Hepatitis C using Baker's Yeast.
Dr. Moria Gunn speaks with Jay Siegel and Garry Neil, Chief Biotechnology Officer and Corporate VP for Science and Technology with Johnson and Johnson, about their biotechnology strategy and their worldwide search for disruptive technologies.
Dr. Moira Gunn discusses the manufacturing of heart cells with Cellular Dynamics International CEO, Bob Palay and then switches gears, talking with Dr. Mark Goldberg, Chairman of PlantForm Corporation, where they are using the tobacco plant in drug manufacturing.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with PBS host and author, James Tabor, about deep cave exploration from the pages of his new book, Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth.
Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with the co-authors of No Size Fits All, from Mass Marketing to Mass Hand Selling, Tom Hayes and Mike Malone. In their new book, Hayes and Malone take an entirely new approach to marketing, embracing small, trust-based online groups as powerful vehicles for creating customers and gathering invaluable feedback.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Mark Ledwidge and John Gilmer, from Solvotrin Therapeutics, about how they're finding new uses for Aspirin.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Stanford University professor and author, Cliff Nass, about his new book, The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, and his theory that links people's interactions with computers and their social and professional life.
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with Stanford University professor and author, Michael Fayer to learn how Quantum Theory relates to everyday life, from the pages of his new book, Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World.
