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 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of The Black Swan, about the role of the improbable in our lives.
In this series on Neurotech, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with NeuroInsights' managing director, Casey Lynch, about the definition of this very new and challenging field.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with San Jose State Professor Randall Stross about the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who he believes invented the modern world and has much in common with Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Nancy Mize about the challenges of submitting drug applications worldwide, and the new technology agreement which will hopefully make it easier. And on the Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan talks about new hopes for old anti-biotics.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with serial entrepreneur Stuart Skorman. She asks him what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with David Shipley and Will Schwalbe, authors of "Send: The Essential Guide to E-mail", about e-mail in the modern age: what it's become from its simple beginnings.
Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan talk about how BioTech is going to the dogs. Since scientists have been decoding the genome of every living thing, high on the list are canines; they discuss what's been discovered so far.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry about Americans who are making extraordinary differences to lessen or eliminate our impact on the environment.
Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan discuss how the United Nations is bringing collective global focus to the issue of global warming.
Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan speak with Dr. Greg Stock, Founder and CEO of Signum Biosciences. David asks him about the expansion from the ivory tower of academia into the realities of a biotech business.
