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Rachel Sterne - Road Map for the Digital City: How @nycgov is Realizing its Digital Potential
Updated: 2012-02-13 05:00:00
Description: In the face of Hurricane Irene, New York City's website was overwhelmed by residents checking evacuation plans and searching for updates. Fortunately, the data on flood zones were available from other sources on the web. Rachel Sterne heads the ...more...

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Michel Stipe and Mike Mills - Technology in Art, Music and Life
Updated: 2012-02-11 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn meets with two of the founding members of R.E.M. Michel Stipe and Mike Mills, who share their technology insights on music, creativity and modern life. ...more...

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Andreas Lyder - Odin and Thor: Modular Robotics
Updated: 2012-02-09 05:00:00
Description: A strut-based deforming system underlies the Odin system of self-reconfiguring modular robotics discussed by Andreas Lyder. In this audio interview, Lyder shows how different systems, such as Odin, M-Tran and Thor, offer different advantages to his c...more...

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Kim Popovits and Chris Garabedian - Advances in Cancer Diagnosis and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophe Research
Updated: 2012-02-09 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Genomic Health President, Kim Popovits about cancer diagnosis and then catches up with Chris Garabedian, CEO of A-V-I, regarding new hope in the area of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. ...more...

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Peter Michalek - oX/OpenLynx
Updated: 2012-02-07 05:00:00
Description: Peter Michalek is leading the the oX/OpenLynx effort, a scalable and comprehensive conceptual solution to support the needs of this next wave of computing. As described by Toby Considine, "plug'ins are used for each new control protocol (BA...more...

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Evgeny Morozov - Marriage From Hell: On the Secret Love Affair Between Dictators and Western Technology Companies
Updated: 2012-02-06 05:00:00
Description: Why are researchers in the United States accepting money from the government of China, in exchange for improving their surveillance ability? This is one of many uncomfortable questions Evgeny Morozov submits for consideration. He reminds us that alth...more...

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Jay Phillips - Entrepreneurial Advantages with New Open-Source Technologies
Updated: 2012-02-04 05:00:00
Description: Jay Phillips is technical lead and project manager of Adhearsion, an open source Ruby framework designed to make building voice- and telephony-enabled applications as straightforward as building web applications. He discusses a handful of technology...more...

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John Kestner - How Twine Can Tie The World Together
Updated: 2012-01-31 05:00:00
Description: According to the Supermechanical website, "Twine is a wireless module tightly integrated with a cloud-based service. The module has WiFi, on-board temperature and vibration sensors, and an expansion connector for other sensors." Developer J...more...

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Gabe Zichermann - Designing for Engagement with Gamification in Open Source
Updated: 2012-01-30 05:00:00
Description: Gabe Zichermann shares tips on how to use gamification techniques to increase end-user engagement in open source software. Gamification is the process of using game design techniques to solve problems in other domains that are not game related. Gabe ...more...

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Kevin Kelly - Trends and Social Consequences of Technology
Updated: 2012-01-28 05:00:00
Description: Our long-term interaction with the web will be defined by six trends. These trends will will involve dramatic changes that will make computing more like what we are used to seeing in many of today's movies. Kevin Kelly explains why he believes t...more...

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Ben Huh - From Blogs to Books
Updated: 2012-01-25 05:00:00
Description: It is hard to imagine getting advice on the future of publishing from the Cheezburger Network. Then again, questioning the status quo, and delivering what people really want, is exactly what Ben Huh has done. By using unconventional practices, he has...more...

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Mark Burgess - Change = Mass x Velocity
Updated: 2012-01-24 05:00:00
Description: Linking information technology management to popular public technology and physics, Cfengine's Mark Burgess describes the fluidity and diversity necessary to keep up with changes in information technology. Rather than the standardization and bur...more...

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Hal Varian - The Economic Impact of Google
Updated: 2012-01-23 05:00:00
Description: In discussing the economic value of Google, Hal Varian focuses on the impact of Google Search in terms of time saved, and advertisements on Google in terms of profit, publicity, and communication. Presenting gains and losses with mathematical equatio...more...

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Paul Fenwick - All Your Brains Suck - Known Bugs And Exploits In Wetware
Updated: 2012-01-20 05:00:00
Description: Brains have bugs. Our memories can be faulty, emotions are hard to judge, and we're terrible at rating the value of anything. All in all, Paul Fenwick says, human minds make a lot of mistakes, and we're all easy to manipulate. Listing a num...more...

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Steven Naifeh - Van Gogh and the New Biology
Updated: 2012-01-19 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steven Naifeh, about new insights into biology from the pages of his new book, Van Gogh: The Life. ...more...

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David Haussler - The Cancer Genome Hub
Updated: 2012-01-19 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns how the war against cancer has moved from the microscope to the computer from University of California at Santa Cruz professor, David Haussler. ...more...

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Andy Piper - MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
Updated: 2012-01-17 05:00:00
Description: As stated on the MQTT website, MQ Telemetry Transport "is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/"Internet of Things" connectivity protocol." Meant to be used remotely particularly when bandwidth is at a premium, it can be used in both mobile...more...

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Michael Jackson - Finding Disruption
Updated: 2012-01-15 05:00:00
Description: The disruption of innovation has yielded as many opportunities for those prepared to take advantage as it has brought disruption for those unprepared to adjust. New businesses have been able to profit with solutions that solve problems or enable prev...more...

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Theo Schlossnagle - What Is A Career?
Updated: 2012-01-13 05:00:00
Description: Many young professionals apply for positions based on what they studied without much experience actually working in the real world. Instead of considering themselves to be experts in many areas, Theo Schlossnagle of OnmiIT argues that professionals &...more...

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David Willetts, Steve Burrill - Biotech Nation
Updated: 2012-01-12 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn gets a glimpse into cabinet meetings at #10 Downing street from UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, and then hosts the annual biotech industry wrap-up with CEO of Burrill & Co, Steve Burrill. ...more...

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Peter Meyers, TJ Zark, Scott Stevens - Tablet Success
Updated: 2012-01-11 05:00:00
Description: In a time when iPad apps may become as popular as the Barbie dolls or Hot Wheels toy cars of the past, there are only a few that rise to the notoriety worthy of a closer look. Peter Myers briefly interviews two people associated with unique successes...more...

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Robert Stephens, Marko Gargenta - A Conversation With Robert Stephens
Updated: 2012-01-10 05:00:00
Description: Google's acquisition of Android Inc. in 2005 silently marked the inception of a powerful mobile software ecosystem consisting of tens of large companies and thousands of application developers. Robert Stephens, the CTO of Best Buy and Founder of...more...

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Cory Doctorow - The Coming War on General Computation
Updated: 2012-01-09 05:00:00
Description: The issue of copyright continues to be a major problem over the life of the personal computer. Companies have consistently tried to limit the ability of users to make the most of their machines, using a variety of protection schemes. In his talk at t...more...

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Josh Berkus - Scale Fail
Updated: 2012-01-07 05:00:00
Description: With a good deal of sarcasm, Josh Berkus presents a sardonic critique about scaling tools that are trendy rather than reliable. Josh Berkus, CEO of PostgreSQL, gives a facetious list of do's and don'ts for database creation and application ...more...

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Gus Balbontin - From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg �" Lonely Planet's Publishing Challenges for the 21st Century
Updated: 2012-01-06 05:00:00
Description: Like most travelers, Gus Balbontin loves new journeys. In this keynote, he shares a collection of stories about adventure. Some of them are about the history of Lonely Planet and some are about his own history with the company. By leading the shift...more...

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Jim Fruchterman - Making the Book Truly Accessible
Updated: 2012-01-03 05:00:00
Description: Jim Fruchterman of Bookshare believes accessible books can become a profit center for publishers, while still protecting copyright. Formerly, preparing accessible books required an extra step. Now, accessibility can be generated as a by-product of bo...more...

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David Messenger - Business Perspective on Technology Advances
Updated: 2011-12-30 05:00:00
Description: David Messenger, EVP at American Express, discusses the drivers, or central forces, behind the changing technological world. He names four that he considers to be the most important, as follows: cell phones, rapid wireless data speeds, social network...more...

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Episode #30 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-12-28 05:00:00
Description: Guests this week are Robert Cartaino and Rebecca Chernoff. Yeehaw! They're members of our Community Team. ...more...

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Toby Considine, Jon Udell - Open Source Smart Energy
Updated: 2011-12-27 05:00:00
Description: In this time of continued concern about the future of energy, technology specialists are looking for ways to better control how power is used in commercial buildings where people sometimes work twenty-four hours a day. Toby Considine, an expert on sm...more...

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Jaap van Till - 21st Century Economics: Lessons for Telcos
Updated: 2011-12-23 05:00:00
Description: We should be less concerned about what people can do with networks and pay more attention to what networks are doing in conjunction with people. This is the essential point that Jaap van Till expounds on in this brief lecture. He discusses the signif...more...

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Wendy Seltzer - Leveraging Openness
Updated: 2011-12-21 05:00:00
Description: While other mobile device companies depend on a closed software development system that gives them near total control, Android uses an open source model that could lead to more innovation. Attorney and open source expert Wendy Seltzer discusses the i...more...

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Robert Stephens - Creating the Geek Squad
Updated: 2011-12-20 05:00:00
Description: As personal computers have become an everyday part of our lives, consumers and businesses have to deal with the issues and problems of technology. Robert Stephens created the Geek Squad as a way to help people correct computer problems quickly and ea...more...

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Douglas Crockford - JavaScript & Metaperformance
Updated: 2011-12-19 05:00:00
Description: The story of the drunk and the lamp post didn't go over all that well but he makes his point about web developers focusing on optimizing their JavaScript code because of misguided benchmarks. Douglas Crockford, Architect at Yahoo!, describes his...more...

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Karen Sandler - Gnome 3
Updated: 2011-12-16 05:00:00
Description: If you had to rely on a medical device implanted into your body to keep you alive, would you trust your life to a closed-source proprietary device manufacturer, or would you rather that it ran on software that was publicly available for review? In sh...more...

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Purdue University Science Journalism Laureates 2011 - Raising the Bar on Science Journalism
Updated: 2011-12-15 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn looks at Science Journalism in 2011 with Purdue University Laureates Clive Cookson, Science Editor of the Financial Times of London, former Editor-in-Chief of Nature Neuroscience, Sandra Aamodt and Keith Devlin, the Math Guy from NPR. ...more...

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Julien Salanave - European Telecoms 2015: Silent Death or Generative Bazaar?
Updated: 2011-12-14 05:00:00
Description: With several of the world's largest telecommunication based in Europe, the region has always been in the forefront in communication thus pioneering the household adoption of broadband internet. Julien Salanave, the Managing Director of IDATE spe...more...

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David Holoboff - The Art of Data Visualization
Updated: 2011-12-13 05:00:00
Description: Visual data is far easier to understand and analyze than the same information in written format. Using a variety of examples that range from maps and charts to the effects of gravity on the Earth and comparisons of carbon dioxide output by country, D...more...

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John Rauser - Look at Your Data
Updated: 2011-12-12 05:00:00
Description: Not all data is useful, and not all presentations of even the useful data are good. John Rauser shows how to best utilize monitoring software to personalize the data gathered about customers, to highlight problems in a website, and to effectively tro...more...

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Wade Davis - In the Silence
Updated: 2011-12-08 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the life of explorer, George Mallory and his conquest of Everest with National Geographic's Explorer-in-Residence & Anthropologist, Wade Davis. ...more...

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Louis Breton - A Different Approach to AIDS
Updated: 2011-12-08 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with Calimmune CEO, Louis Breton and learns how they are looking at treating HIV/AIDS. ...more...

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Rachel Chalmers - State of the Infrastructure
Updated: 2011-12-06 05:00:00
Description: Rachel Chalmers of The 451 Group winds back the tape to present a folk history of internet infrastructure, beginning with the first inkling of Java, and eventually leading to a re-negotiation of the developer/operations contract. Seeing where the Int...more...

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Ben Horowitz - What to Invest In and What to Build
Updated: 2011-12-05 05:00:00
Description: Andreessen Horowitz's Ben Horowitz discusses trends and possible future investments, beginning with an overview of past paradigm shifts in the world of technology. Although Horowitz cautions that the possibilities in the future are hard to guess...more...

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The Ecosystem Panel - Are the Current Ecosystems of Wireline and Wireless Still Relevant?
Updated: 2011-12-03 05:00:00
Description: Telecom innovation has been stagnant for too long. Andy Abramson of Comunicano, Inc. leads this panel of experienced analysts and strategists to explore what or who is holding the industry back: regulators, vendors, technologies, or markets? Are tele...more...

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Brian Reich - Shift and Reset
Updated: 2011-12-01 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns about opportunities for non-profits from author and Senior Vice President for Edelman Digital, Brian Reich from his new book, Shift and Reset: Strategies for Addressing Serious Issues in a Connected Society. ...more...

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David Reese - Identifying Biomarkers
Updated: 2011-12-01 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn gets a crash course in identifying biomarkers and what can are doing in personalized medicine from Amgen Vice President for Medical Sciences, David Reese. ...more...

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Episode #29 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-11-30 05:00:00
Description: Jeff and Joel are joined today by Chris "Moot" Poole, founder of 4chan and Canv.as. It's a wide ranging discussion from internet memes and tropes to the danger of the SOPA bill that is currently making it's way through the house....more...

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Brian Aker - State of Drizzle
Updated: 2011-11-23 05:00:00
Description: Imagine improving your main coding product then being threatened with a lawsuit for hinting you may publish it. This by the company partnering on it with you. This happened to Brian Aker when he mentioned bringing MySQL improvements to O'Reilly&...more...

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Jonah Peretti - Secrets of Social Media and Viral Advertising
Updated: 2011-11-21 05:00:00
Description: How do you make things "go viral?" Jonah Peretti, founder and CEO of Buzzfeed, offers some tips on how to make media instantly popular by focusing on the use of social media as a tool for sharing content. Using his own viral content, from s...more...

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Vik Chaudhary - Testing and Monitoring Mobile Apps
Updated: 2011-11-20 05:00:00
Description: Vik Chaudhary, VP of Product Management & Corporate Development at Keynote Systems, Inc., talks about the increasing popularity of apps on a variety of smartphones and the corresponding importance of testing those apps for optimal efficiency. Pre...more...

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Steve Yegge - What Would You Do With Your Own Google?
Updated: 2011-11-18 05:00:00
Description: According to Steve Yegge, Google is trying to change the world, but the problem is scale. The problems are also every social, technological, and mathematical problem imaginable. Yegge advocates for the focus on not only social media and money, but so...more...

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Cathy Davidson - Brain Science
Updated: 2011-11-17 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and Duke professor, Cathy Davidson about what happens when you hand every incoming Freshmen a free ipod and her new book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Le...more...

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Michael Bishop and Art Levinson - Discovery, Mutations, and Cancer
Updated: 2011-11-17 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns how mutations caused cancer from Nobel Prize winner, Michael Bishop and Genetech chairman, Art Levinson. ...more...

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Episode #27 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-11-16 05:00:00
Description: Jeff & Joel are joined today by Dave Winer, who's upset that we don't have a jingle to start the show! He "invented" (well, pioneered, really) the XML-RPC protocol. Dave tells us the story of how and why the protocol came to b...more...

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James Enck - Post Financial Trauma - How is the Telecom Value Chain Now Positioned?
Updated: 2011-11-16 05:00:00
Description: During the dot com bubble of the 1990s European bankers went to telecom company CEOs and said you can be as sexy as the American dot coms. This is the basis of what went wrong for the telecom industry according to James Enck. He observes that this pa...more...

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Kathy Sierra - Creating Passionate Users
Updated: 2011-11-14 05:00:00
Description: Just picture trying to write a best-selling book if you had no marketing, no talent, and weren't a celebrity. Keeping in mind these challenges, author Kathy Sierra presents her formula for creating a highly desirable book for modern readers. Usi...more...

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Jeff Jarvis - Public Parts
Updated: 2011-11-11 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn gets a fresh perspective on the how how digital technology is changing the nature of human self-expression from Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live. ...more...

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Episode #26 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-11-10 05:00:00
Description: No guest today. Moot had to postpone his appearance on the show. But David Fullerton is here to hang out with us ...more...

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Bharatt Chowrira - Binding Drugs to Cell
Updated: 2011-11-10 05:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about a different way of designing drugs, from anxiety and depression to Type II diabetes, with Addex Pharmaceuticals CEO, Bharatt Chowrira. ...more...

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Mårten Mickos - Data in the Cloud
Updated: 2011-11-09 05:00:00
Description: A fascinating look into the future of big data. As parallel computing enables massive scaling & instant availability, the need for cloud computing is mandatory. During this keynote, Mårten Mickos predicts that in several years there will be a ...more...

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Kevin Manley - The Two-Second Advantage
Updated: 2011-11-04 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns the secrets behind the art of anticipation from author, Kevin Manley from his new book, The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future -- Just Enough. ...more...

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Jay Tischfield - Genetic Mutation Base for Autism and Tourettes Patients
Updated: 2011-11-03 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about genetic mutation base being used with autism and tourette's patients from Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository CEO, Jay Tischfield. ...more...

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Episode #25 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-11-02 04:00:00
Description: This week's guest is Mark Russinovich, from SysInternals.com and now with Microsoft. ...more...

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Moray Rumney - LTE - Long Term Employment or Less Than Expected?
Updated: 2011-11-01 04:00:00
Description: Agilent's lead technologist offers predictions for 3GPP LTE cellular technology. LTE (Long Term Evolution) is not a done deal, he explains, because its performance advantage is not yet proven. It has to be economically viable. The future of wire...more...

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Baron Schwartz - Causes of Downtime in MySQL
Updated: 2011-10-31 04:00:00
Description: There is a lot of downtime in MySQL, and Baron Schwartz knows the reasons why. In this short talk, he presents many of the main reasons for slow MySQL, and also a variety of simple solutions to the problem of MySQL downtime. Not only can issues be re...more...

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Jeremy Rifkin - The Third Industrial Revolution
Updated: 2011-10-28 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Jeremy Rifkin about European energy conservation and what there is to be learned from it from his new book, The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World. ...more...

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Mickie Bahatia - Blood from Skin Cells
Updated: 2011-10-28 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Scientific Director from the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University, where they have learned how to make blood from skin cells. ...more...

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Episode #24 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-10-27 04:00:00
Description: Jeff & Joel are joined this week by Eric Ries, author and expert on The Lean Startup. Click through for all the topics discussed... ...more...

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Episode #23 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-10-26 04:00:00
Description: Our guest today is James Portnow of Extra Credits. We are also joined in the studio by David Fullerton. ...more...

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Brian O'Leary - Context First: A Unified Field Theory of Publishing
Updated: 2011-10-25 04:00:00
Description: Books aren't just books anymore. Books are multi-dimensional, and increasingly, not even in traditional book format. Different types of media are escaping their usual containers, and it is context, rather than just content, that is beginning to ...more...

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Candice Millard - Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Updated: 2011-10-20 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns new information about the life and death of the 20th U.S. President, James A Garfield, from Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President. ...more...

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Francis Collins - Biotech and the Leading Edge of Medical Science
Updated: 2011-10-20 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, shows Dr. Moira Gunn just how much biotechnology is already working in health care. ...more...

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Nick Burch - The Apache Software Foundation
Updated: 2011-10-19 04:00:00
Description: Originally known as the Apache Group, the Apache Software Foundation is a leading supporter of open source software development. First established in 1999, the non-profit organization provides support to a number of open source projects. Software dev...more...

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Martin Geddes - Pay-Per-Moment Payments
Updated: 2011-10-17 04:00:00
Description: In the future consumers may have lower costs for services they demand but at the cost of their privacy and attention, while private enterprise will benefit from a wide variety of customers and more expansive relationships with those customers. Martin...more...

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Tom Talavage - Measuring High School Football Injuries
Updated: 2011-10-14 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns how a group from Purdue University studied the brains of local football players and landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, from Team Lead, Tom Talavage. ...more...

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David Ewing Duncan - 2011 MacArthur Awards
Updated: 2011-10-14 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn recaps the MacArthur Awards with columnist and author, David Ewing Duncan and learns how biotech and science came out in the mix. ...more...

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Episode #22 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-10-12 04:00:00
Description: Joel (but no Jeff) is joined this week by Paul Biggar (who Joel originally met when he was a DevDays London 2009 speaker about scripting languages). Paul currently works at Mozilla, having come off his own (not that successful) Y Combinator startup....more...

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Nikesh Arora, John Hayes, Yusuf Mehdi - "Consumer Platforms" as a Point of Control
Updated: 2011-10-11 04:00:00
Description: Three business chiefs reiterate that relationships are the most important assets -- so handling customer data is critical business. As internet marketing continues to grow, chief marketers have more data than ever on their customers. Here, top market...more...

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Jerry McNeaney - Clean Energy Nation
Updated: 2011-10-06 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and representative for the California 11th congressional district, Jerry McNeaney about his vision for a Clean Energy Nation. ...more...

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John Beadle and John Maraganore - The Global War on Cancer
Updated: 2011-10-06 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the latest treatments for cancer with John Beadle, CEO of PsiOxus Therapeutics and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals President, John Maraganore. ...more...

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Episode #21 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-10-05 04:00:00
Description: This week, Jeff & Joel are joined (in studio, no less) by David Fullerton, head of the NY Dev Department, and Jason Punyon, a developer here in the office. Its a fast moving discussion covering all kinds of topics. ...more...

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Martyn Davies - When Will HD Voice Become a Reality?
Updated: 2011-10-04 04:00:00
Description: The adoption of High Definition Voice communication has gained grounds with the advancement of VoIP based communication technologies from companies like Skype, Cisco and Microsoft. Martyn Davies, Principal Consultant at Dialogic, speaks on the evolut...more...

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Brian Overstreet - Improving Drug Safety Data Access
Updated: 2011-10-03 04:00:00
Description: Drug safety data as reported by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Web site is plagued by misspellings and an ill-formatted data structure. Brian Overstreet of Adverse Events explains how the company's new filtering technology refine...more...

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Eric Ries - Lean Start-ups
Updated: 2011-09-29 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about how to innovate on a shoestring budget with Author and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, Eric Ries. ...more...

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Bill Polvino - New Immuno-Suppressants for Organ Transplants
Updated: 2011-09-29 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about a new approach to delivering immuno-suppressants to organ transplant recipients with Veloxis Pharmaceuticals CEO, Bill Polvino. ...more...

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Eric Ries - Lean Start-ups
Updated: 2011-09-29 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about how to innovate on a shoestring budget with Author and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, Eric Ries. ...more...

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Bill Polvino - New Immuno-Suppressants for Organ Transplants
Updated: 2011-09-29 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about a new approach to delivering immuno-suppressants to organ transplant recipients with Veloxis Pharmaceuticals CEO, Bill Polvino. ...more...

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Episode #20 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-09-28 04:00:00
Description: Joining Jeff & Joel this week is John Siracusa, writer for Ars Technica - he's the one who introduced Macs to the Ars world (and apparently ended up converting their entire staff into Mac users). ...more...

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Wim Elfrink - Network is Platform For Transforming The World
Updated: 2011-09-27 04:00:00
Description: Wim Elfrink hypothesizes on how creating a stronger, more synthesized network will change the world. Focusing on aspects of future daily life as well as major global trends, Elfrink, Chief Globalization Officer of Cisco, discusses how technology and ...more...

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Johanna Kollmann - Back to the Roots? Emerging Communication Paradigms in the Context of Secondary Orality
Updated: 2011-09-26 04:00:00
Description: Imagine the earliest days of society where oral communication served as the foundation of describing, preserving, and sharing human experience. Johanna Kollmann, User Experience Manager at Vodafone, studies how technology serves essentially the same ...more...

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Sonia Arrison - 100 Plus
Updated: 2011-09-22 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns how the coming age of longevity will change everything, from careers and relationships to family and faith from 100 Plus author, Sonia Arrison. ...more...

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Ananda Charkarbarty - Next Generation Bacteria Drugs
Updated: 2011-09-22 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn catches up talks about next generation drugs and smart bacteria with University of Illinois professor, Ananda Charkarbarty. ...more...

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Sonia Arrison - 100 Plus
Updated: 2011-09-22 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns how the coming age of longevity will change everything, from careers and relationships to family and faith from 100 Plus author, Sonia Arrison. ...more...

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Ananda Charkarbarty - Next Generation Bacteria Drugs
Updated: 2011-09-22 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn catches up talks about next generation drugs and smart bacteria with University of Illinois professor, Ananda Charkarbarty. ...more...

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Episode #19 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-09-21 04:00:00
Description: Everyone's back in their home towns this week (Sorry for the audio quality last week. It was Joel's fault [actually, it was TechCrunch's fault]). And joining Jeff & Joel this week is John Sheenhan, Developer Evangelist for Twilio. ...more...

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Susan Lyne, Tony Hsieh - Managing Hypergrowth
Updated: 2011-09-20 04:00:00
Description: Imagine completing two rounds of interviews, beginning your job orientation then being offered a choice by your new employer: feel free to continue with training or take $3000 to quit. According to Tony Hsieh, this is one of many ways to keep a compa...more...

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Steve Rosenbaum - Curation: Beyond The Buzzword
Updated: 2011-09-19 04:00:00
Description: Curation is the key to information overload. Qualitatively sorting and choosing information is something Steve Rosenbaum believes that book publishers are uniquely positioned to provide in the future of publishing. To illustrate his case, Rosenbaum s...more...

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Laurie R King - Sherlock Holmes the Science Pioneer
Updated: 2011-09-15 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Laurie R King about how Sherlock Holmes stories engaged the 19th century science community. ...more...

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Kevin D'Mour - Stem Cells and Natural Insulin
Updated: 2011-09-15 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moria Gunn sits down with the Director of Stem Cell Biology at Viacyte, Kevin D'Mour, where they are experimenting with the natural creation of insulin using stem cells. ...more...

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Laurie R King - Sherlock Holmes the Science Pioneer
Updated: 2011-09-15 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Laurie R King about how Sherlock Holmes stories engaged the 19th century science community. ...more...

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Kevin D'Mour - Stem Cells and Natural Insulin
Updated: 2011-09-15 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moria Gunn sits down with the Director of Stem Cell Biology at Viacyte, Kevin D'Mour, where they are experimenting with the natural creation of insulin using stem cells. ...more...

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Episode #18 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-09-14 04:00:00
Description: No guest this week as Joel calls in to the show live from the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in San Francisco since he's there launching Trello for Fog Creek Software (also why his audio isn't quite as good as usual, it's pretty loud th...more...

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Brian Frank - Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Updated: 2011-09-13 04:00:00
Description: As stated in its draft from the core working group, "the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), a specialized web transfer protocol for use with constrained networks and nodes for machine-to-machine applications such as smart energy and buildi...more...

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Colin Pons - Telephony is Dying, are Telco's?
Updated: 2011-09-13 04:00:00
Description: "Telephony is dying and voip is not much better off". Where are telecommunication companies to look to next? Colin Pons, Senior Architect at KPN, thinks it's in enterprise applications, social networking services and mobile devices. Th...more...

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Victor Kuo - Parallel Wireless Radio Communication Architecture
Updated: 2011-09-12 04:00:00
Description: Victor Kuo talks about how he has developed radio communication that can handle many transmitters sending at the same time. He has focused on the crosstalk problem, which was a major obstacle to using radios for module to module communication. Parall...more...

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Sandra Aamodt - The Young Mind
Updated: 2011-09-10 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about your child's brain with author and former editor-in-chief for Nature Neuroscience, Sandra Aamodt, from her new book, Welcome to Your Child's Brain. ...more...

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Benoit Dubuis - Start-ups, Big Pharma and Universities around Lake Geneva
Updated: 2011-09-10 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the global road map between the BioAlps in Switzerland and China's big new biotech initiative with BioAlps President, Benoit Dubuis. ...more...

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Sandra Aamodt - The Young Mind
Updated: 2011-09-10 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about your child's brain with author and former editor-in-chief for Nature Neuroscience, Sandra Aamodt, from her new book, Welcome to Your Child's Brain. ...more...

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Benoit Dubuis - Start-ups, Big Pharma and Universities around Lake Geneva
Updated: 2011-09-10 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the global road map between the BioAlps in Switzerland and China's big new biotech initiative with BioAlps President, Benoit Dubuis. ...more...

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Episode #17 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-09-07 04:00:00
Description: Jeff & Joel are back with guests this week - joining them are Kyle Brandt and George Beech, our very own sysadmins/ops guys/[insert your own term here] ...more...

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Dennis Crowley and Robert Scoble - The Laser-Focus of Foursquare
Updated: 2011-09-05 04:00:00
Description: Foursquare is a social networking website that has learned how to "make every check-in count for the user." It uses the social graph to build relationships between users, locations, and the people they meet. Crowley and Scoble talk about Fo...more...

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Ben Lorica - U.S. iTunes Appstore: Lessons from The First 30 Months
Updated: 2011-09-02 04:00:00
Description: People like free, especially when it comes to apps. Ben Lorica, a Senior Analyst at O'Reilly Media, Inc., summarizes the popularity and economic trends of apps for both iPhones and iPads. He also presents statistics on how long apps stay popular...more...

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David Graeber - The History of Debt
Updated: 2011-09-01 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns about this history of Debt from London University anthropologist and author, David Graeber, from the pages of his new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. ...more...

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Stan Skafidas - Nano Electronics and Macular Degeneration
Updated: 2011-09-01 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the advances in combating Macular Degeneration using Nano Electronics from Professor and Program Leader at Bionic Vision Australia, Stan Skafidas. ...more...

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Episode #16 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-08-31 04:00:00
Description: So it's been a couple weeks since our last podcast, but Jeff & Joel are back and ready to catch up on everything they missed. There's no guest this week, just 60+ minutes of that Jeff & Joel banter that (we hope) you've grown ...more...

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Reed Hastings, Peter Chernin - Content as a Point of Control
Updated: 2011-08-31 04:00:00
Description: The global television system is a half-trillion dollar business, leading Peter Chernin to say the cable business is "one of the great business models of all time." It is not surprising then that traditional television companies are nervous ...more...

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Cullen Jennings - The Next Wave of Communications Applications
Updated: 2011-08-30 04:00:00
Description: The over-the-top audio and video services occupy a major part of Unified Communications landscape today. Cullen Jennings, Distinguished Engineer, Office of CTO at Cisco speaks during the recently held eComm conference about the major trends that may ...more...

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Ed Humes - Force of Nature
Updated: 2011-08-25 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with Pulitzer prize-winning author, Ed Humes, to talk about his new book, Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of WalMarts Green Revolution. ...more...

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Orin Levine - Efforts to Eradicate Pneumonia and Meningitis
Updated: 2011-08-25 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the movement to vaccinate the children of the World against pneumonia and meningitis from the Director of the Johns-Hopkins International Vaccine Access Center, Orin Levine. ...more...

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Michael Widenius - State of MariaDB
Updated: 2011-08-24 04:00:00
Description: The latest version of MariaDB is much faster and has microsecond-measuring analytics to prove it. Michael Widenius, "Monty" of Monty Program AB, reports on the development schedule of MariaDB, in which the team is drastically improving perf...more...

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Marty Abbott, Michael Fisher - Scalability Rules
Updated: 2011-08-23 04:00:00
Description: The concept of scalability has been around as long as the need to deal with ever-expanding systems has. Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher, authors of the book Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites, discuss the problems with how technol...more...

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John Donovan - Mobile Networks from an AT&T Perspective
Updated: 2011-08-22 04:00:00
Description: The ever changing mobile devices landscape throws up enormous challenges and opportunities alike for carriers like AT&T. In this conversation with O'Reilly Media's Tim O'Reilly, John Donovon, the Chief Technology Officer of AT&...more...

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Patrick Meier - May the Crowd Be With You: Mapping in Disaster Response
Updated: 2011-08-19 04:00:00
Description: Crisis Mapping in a new era of collaboration is described by Patrick Meier, the Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi. He shares the latest developments in Crisis Mapping for disaster response and illustrates applications of Where 2.0 technologies i...more...

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Keith Devlin - Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
Updated: 2011-08-18 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn goes back in time to 16th century Italy and finds out why we don't use Roman numerals any more from The Man of Numbers: Fibonaccis Arithmetic Revolution author, Keith Devlin. ...more...

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Michael Zhang - Cystic Fibrosis Research
Updated: 2011-08-18 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with 2011 International BIO Gene-ius Challenge participant, Michael Zhang, a high school student who discovered a new result for people with cystic fibrosis. ...more...

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Martin Geddes - Multi Sided Markets and Cloud Computing
Updated: 2011-08-16 04:00:00
Description: Telecom companies need to move from being merely infrastructure companies to having add-on services on top of their infrastructure to survive. Martin Geddes, Head of Strategy at BT, looks at the container industry's history for insights into whe...more...

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Doug Edwards - Confessions of a Google Employee
Updated: 2011-08-11 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn hears about life as Google employee from author and former Director of Consumer Marketing and Brand Management, Doug Edwards, as outlined in his new book, I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59. ...more...

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Micheal Werner and Morrin Ruffin - Advocating for Regenerative Medicine
Updated: 2011-08-11 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the Washington, D.C. non-profit, whose mission it is to educate key policy makers on regenerative medicine and to advocate for favorable public policies from Alliance for Regenerative Medicine's co-founder Micheal Wer...more...

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Episode #15 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-08-10 04:00:00
Description: Joining Jeff and Joel this week is Michael Natkin, from our Cooking.SE site. Michael is especially interesting because he is a computer programmer, but he doesn't answer questions at Stack Overflow, only on the Cooking site (he's our first...more...

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Sean Park - Platforms, Markets & Bytes - the Economic Landscape of the 6th Paradigm
Updated: 2011-08-09 04:00:00
Description: Everything is becoming a digital good. Sean Park, founder of Nauiokas Park LLP, discusses this idea and others, such as cyclical business cycles and horizontal business structures, in the context of the current events in international financial indus...more...

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Evan Williams - How Twitter Fits In
Updated: 2011-08-08 04:00:00
Description: Twitter co-founder Evan Williams describes the revenue model for their newly launched Promoted suite of products. Hear Williams' views about the Twitter fire hose as well as integration and data sharing with Facebook. Addressed also are commerc...more...

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Kevin Kelly - BETTER THAN FREE: How Value Is Generated in a Free Copy World
Updated: 2011-08-05 04:00:00
Description: Everyone knows that books have been a cornerstone in our society for millenia. But according to Kevin Kelly, we're moving away from them at a rapid pace. Through a mix of powerful trends, Kelly takes a look into the future. What he finds are mor...more...

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Dean Buonomano - Brain Bugs
Updated: 2011-08-04 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moria Gunn talks with neurobiologist, Dean Buonomano, about brains and how they work from the pages of his new book, Brain Bugs. ...more...

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Gunther Winkler - Asia-Pacific Biotech
Updated: 2011-08-04 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Biogen Idec Senior Vice President, Gunther Winkler about the Asia-Pacific Biotech landscape. ...more...

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Episode #14 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-08-03 04:00:00
Description: Miguel De Icaza joins Jeff & Joel this week to discuss everything from Miguel's many projects to identity on the internet to playdates for toddlers. Miguel is a force in the software world, having initiated and contributed to all kinds of p...more...

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Juan González Gómez - Robotic Side-Winders Coming to a 3-D Printer Near You
Updated: 2011-08-02 04:00:00
Description: Rotating, rolling, turning, moving forward and moving backward are all impressive gates for modular snake robots, but Per Sjöborg says the striking side-winding motion can only be described as beautiful. These complex patterns of locomotion emerge f...more...

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Jeremy Cole - Big and Small Data at @Twitter
Updated: 2011-08-01 04:00:00
Description: Twitter filters billions of messages, and uses quite a few systems and tools to make that data flow. Jeremy Cole, founder of Proven Scaling, discusses the MySQL software used by Twitter, as well as many challenges Twitter faces with massive data stor...more...

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Gerd Leonhard - Telemedia Futures
Updated: 2011-07-30 04:00:00
Description: In a world of media fragmentation, how can a big telemedia company keep its edge? By bundling deals with content providers, aimed at targeted markets. Gerd Leonhard says "curation" is the name of the game. Previously, big broadcasters and c...more...

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Reid Hoffman - Speculations on Web 3.0
Updated: 2011-07-29 04:00:00
Description: Everyone on the web is participating in a great "data exhaust." Therefore, good internet companies do not ambush their users, Reid Hoffman says. Known as the most connected person in Silicon Valley, and a newly-made billionaire since the Ma...more...

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Mike Cohen - Speech Technology at Google
Updated: 2011-07-28 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns about Google search engine feature that allows you to speak your search terms, along with other speech technology from the Manager of Speech Technology at Google, Mike Cohen. ...more...

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Jeremy Abbate and Yali Friedman - Worldview on Biotech
Updated: 2011-07-28 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn looks at Scientific American's Worldview on biotech with Publishing Director, Jeremy Abbate and Editor of the Worldview Scorecard, Yali Friedman. ...more...

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Episode #13 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-07-27 04:00:00
Description: Jeff & Joel are joined this week by Jin Yang - our resident web/graphic designer here at Stack (the distinction between the two becomes a discussion point). Once we get the proper picture of Jin in the chatroom, he relates everything from his ba...more...

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Jack Dangermond - Living Maps - Collective Geographic Information
Updated: 2011-07-26 04:00:00
Description: Maps tell stories: track Japan after the tsunami or the Gulf oil spill through time. Jack Dangermond, the president of Esri, talks about and demonstrates ArcGIS.com's new cloud-based GIS computing and intelligent web maps. These two innovations ...more...

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Ed Boyajian, Bruce Momjian - The State of the Elephant
Updated: 2011-07-22 04:00:00
Description: Elephants have long memories and, as far as PostgreSQL is concerned, are no longer slow or lumbering. EnterpriseDB's Ed Boyajian and Bruce Momjian discuss the many improvements, benefits and features in PostgreSQL, as well as its success as a co...more...

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Biotechnology Panel - A Global Understanding of BioTechnology
Updated: 2011-07-21 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the global state of biotechnology from the biotech panel at the annual international BIO conference in Washington DC. This years panel featured BIO President Jim Greenwood, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, Carnegie-...more...

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Episode #12 - The Stack Exchange Podcast
Updated: 2011-07-20 04:00:00
Description: This week, Jeff and Joel are joined by Patrick McKenzie - StackOverflow contributor, internet commentator and SEO expert (especially when it comes to driving traffic for bingo cards). After a few early tech issues we jump right into things, with ton...more...

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Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone - Stop Putting the Front-end Last
Updated: 2011-07-19 04:00:00
Description: A lot of R&D still puts the front-end last. But considering the user experience throughout product development pays handsomely, say Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone. One study shows design-led businesses outpacing the FTSE 100 by 100 pct. Cruml...more...

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Julia Grace - Location is Dead! Long Live Location!
Updated: 2011-07-18 04:00:00
Description: Our "flat" world is also hyper-local. Location is becoming simultaneously more and less relevant. Julia Grace discusses why we buy some things from across the globe and others at our corner shop. Could our experience at the stores could be...more...

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Justin Shaffer - Facebook Invites Developers to Open Graph API
Updated: 2011-07-15 04:00:00
Description: Last year at F8, a conference for developers in social media, Facebook announced Open Graph, a platform that enabled people to connect to objects and URI's on the Web. This year, Justin Shaffer briefs the Where 2.0 audience about how Facebook pl...more...

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Reto Brun, Gerd Pluschke and Alex Filz - BioTech News Update
Updated: 2011-07-14 04:00:00
Description: Dr. Moira Gunn talks with two of the lead scientists from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, where she learns that there are 250 million people in the world, all suffering from malaria. Then it's off to talk about the unusual humani...more...

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