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With the vision of making it a center for research in a variety of areas, MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte founded the MIT Media Lab in 1985. Joichi Ito, the new director at the MIT Media Lab, spoke during the recently held Web 2.0 Expo. Ito discusses how 'The power of Pull' is changing t...
Datum: 24.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 5.6 MB
Has the latest iPhone changed everything? Will Google Maps lose market share to OpenStreetMap? Which social-mobile start-ups will survive? These questions set the stage as the Where 2012 conference starts to cover breakthroughs in social-mobile. Brady Forrest, the Program Chair for O'Reilly�...
Datum: 23.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 5.6 MB
In these segments, Moira first speaks with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, author of Need, Spped, and Greed, on how the new rules of innovation can transform businesses, propel Nations to greatness, and tame the world's most wicked problems. She then speaks with a delegation from the UK's Clean and C...
Datum: 20.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 22.4 MB
One of the great benefits of the ability to use mobile devices to accomplish many tasks is the ability to take control of your home. Author and developer Mike Riley discusses his book Programming Your Home. He reviews how one can interact with lighting, remotely monitor home security, and many other...
Datum: 17.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 19.7 MB
Presenting ten key features of the Android in less than ten minutes, Square Inc.'s Bob Lee discusses key innovations that Android has had since the beginning. With themes from individual multi-tasking to global corporate use, as well as some background into the creation of the platform, Bob Lee...
Datum: 16.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 4.4 MB
The number of calling minutes in the world is growing since it was created in 2003, but their shift towards Skype is growing faster. Sten Tamkivi, chief spokesperson for Skype, looks behind this trend, sharing what Skype has learned about simultaneously serving both the most and less developed marke...
Datum: 15.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 14.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about nano-capsules, 100 times smaller than a blood cell, and their uses in a unique drug delivery system for cancer with the CEO of Epitarget, Esben Nilssen.
Datum: 13.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with David Agus from the University of Southern California about how his engineering training makes him a better doctor and then chats with CSIRO scientist, David Topping about the truth behind the phrase, you are what you eat.
Datum: 12.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 20 MB
In the day and age of "fast", every online entity seeks to make their user experience faster. Michael Kuperman and Ronni Zehavi announce a few bits of news for Cotendo before presenting their subject. They have developed a program suite for both desktop and mobile websites and applications...
Datum: 11.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 3 MB
The fundamental problem of knowing how to apply knowledge is the focus, as Prof. Subramanian Ramamoorthy studies how agents transfer skills from one situation to another. Ramamoorthy constrains each agent's environment, limiting interaction to a handful of other agents, so that agents can act w...
Datum: 09.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 9.6 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the death of the five-year plan and performance indicators now being used to chart a course for successful businesses with John Hagel, Co-Director from the Deloitte Center for the Edge.
Datum: 05.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 14 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn discusses everything from a new approach to producing ethanol for our cars to an innovative approach to treating Mesothelioma with CEO Geoff Bell from MicroBioGen and David Lloyd, Dean of Research at Trinity College in Dublin.
Datum: 05.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 9.8 MB
Paul Querna gives a quick summary of an ongoing open source project called Cast written in Node.js. It is a framework for deploying applications. Cast provides tools for system administrators and developers to create, deploy, maintain, and monitor distributed services written in any language. The in...
Datum: 04.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 2.8 MB
Speech technology expert and noted author Moshe Yudkowsky laments, " ...the models and information required by speech technology is simply too great for today's open source collaborations." Yudkowsky discusses the practical edge of speech technology, covering solutions for both large ...
Datum: 02.04.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 7.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn learns about how the landscape of medicine is being changed by new discoveries in biology and genetics from Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Healthcare.
Datum: 30.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 16 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about how intellectual property rights in the age of personalized medicine with head of the Life Sciences Practice at Baker Botts, Jen Gordon.
Datum: 30.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
Skills that were thought to be old fashioned relics of the 20 century, such as sewing, stitching, or needle point are still relevant in the 21st century thanks to the Arduino LilyPad. Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino, talks about and displays some of their fascinating developments, which include...
Datum: 29.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
Did you know California's entire research network of educational institutions, kindergarten through college, now empties directly into Amazon's cloud storage system? From data generated by thousands of Web 2.0 companies every second to terabytes of data generated by government at every le...
Datum: 27.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 9.2 MB
Does pizza taste better than broccoli? If you're like most people, you're going to answer pizza. It should come as no surprise then, that many health experts point to our preference for unhealthy food as a leading cause for the obesity problem in the United States. Clay Johnson suggests...
Datum: 26.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 8.7 MB
John Resig, Dean of open source and head of JavaScript development at Khan Academy, looks at how performance is treated in jQuery projects. He explains the need to consider the varied components that make up a project and ensure that they are balanced to provide the most effective outcome for users ...
Datum: 23.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 12.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn learns more about the perspective of flows from Duke professor Adrian Bejan, author of Design in Nature.
Datum: 22.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 15.6 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn discusses generic drugs in the biotech space called biosimilars with Group Commercial Director for Eden BioDesign, Roger Lias.
Datum: 22.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 8.1 MB
If Moore's Law is the basis of your religion, Johnny Lee of Google warns that you might find what he has to say heresy: Convergence won't happen in consumer electronics. In fact, he says the darwinism of free-market competition drives diversification among device species. The mouse and key...
Datum: 21.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 4.9 MB
Leading a panel of several investing experts, James Enck points out several challenges the telecommunications value chain faces after the recent recession. Several problems might mirror the dot-com bubble, but investors and entrepreneurs also have new obstacles, including the increasing importance o...
Datum: 20.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 21.5 MB
A primary goal for developers has been to attract eyeballs and create "addictive" experiences. Kelly Goto advises against encouraging addictive behavior in development and innovation. According to Goto human-to-machine communication is presently the standard. As machine-to-human communicat...
Datum: 19.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn goes on the set of the Oscar-nominated short film, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore with Co-Director Brandon Oldenburg and Executive Producer, Lampton Enochs.
Datum: 16.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 15.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Director Orin Levine from The International Vaccine Access Center at Johns-Hopkins School of Medicine about The Gavi Alliance and vaccines for the poor.
Datum: 15.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
Many ask, "What is the future of gaming?" The future is more difficult to determine without knowing the past. Sven Oliver "Svolli" Moll takes a step back in time to review and analyze the development, intricacies, and specifications of one of the most monumental gaming systems in...
Datum: 14.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 27.9 MB
As more household appliances can be controlled remotely, major companies are developing new ways for consumers to use their products. Jonathan Thompson discusses how General Electric uses the Nucleus Energy Manager to monitor and control power usage and cost. In addition to describing the Smart Ener...
Datum: 13.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 20.4 MB
We are sharing more than ever. We're sharing so much that we're struggling to understand what to do with the data. We've become data rich, but information poor. It is estimated that we're sharing more than five exabytes of data every two days; roughly the same amount of online ...
Datum: 12.03.2012 04:00 •
Größe: 5.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about an exciting breakthrough in the treatment of trauma to the brain with the President and CEO of Edge Therapeutics, Brian Leuthner.
Datum: 10.03.2012 05:00 •
Größe: 5.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Stanford professor, Cliff Nauss about his journey into the female response to the personal technology boom in his new book, The Man who Lied to His Laptop.
Datum: 09.03.2012 05:00 •
Größe: 18.9 MB
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, David Holoboff gives a quick presentation about the...
Datum: 13.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 3.4 MB
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 troubleshoot. Using real world examples of unsatisfyi...
Datum: 12.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 9.1 MB
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.
Datum: 08.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 17.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with Calimmune CEO, Louis Breton and learns how they are looking at treating HIV/AIDS.
Datum: 08.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 6.2 MB
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 Internet came from helps show where it's going a...
Datum: 06.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 7.5 MB
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 beyond broad categories and general trends in the...
Datum: 05.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 5.4 MB
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 telecom legacies like seven digit phone numbers and co...
Datum: 03.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 23.4 MB
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.
Datum: 01.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 15.6 MB
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.
Datum: 01.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
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.
Datum: 30.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 30.2 MB
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's OSCON a few years ago. Some within Sun Micr...
Datum: 23.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 13.9 MB
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 sweatshop Nike shoes to an automated date rejection...
Datum: 21.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 8.6 MB
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 solutions to human genome coding and any issue of sc...
Datum: 18.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
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 Learn.
Datum: 17.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 10.6 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn learns how mutations caused cancer from Nobel Prize winner, Michael Bishop and Genetech chairman, Art Levinson.
Datum: 17.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 13.4 MB
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 be.
Datum: 16.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 30 MB
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 panel discussion has a wide range of speakers and ba...
Datum: 16.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 19.7 MB
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. Using personal examples, she explains her process for...
Datum: 14.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 11.6 MB
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.
Datum: 11.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 15.4 MB
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.
Datum: 10.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 8.3 MB
No guest today. Moot had to postpone his appearance on the show. But David Fullerton is here to hang out with us
Datum: 10.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 27.5 MB
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 trillion devices connected to the Internet. We are...
Datum: 09.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 12.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn learns the secrets behind the art of anticipation from author, Kevin Maney from his new book, The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future -- Just Enough.
Datum: 04.11.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 14.3 MB
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.
Datum: 03.11.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 9.6 MB
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 wireless is bright, but it has to be based on low-cost...
Datum: 01.11.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 11.2 MB
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.
Datum: 28.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 18.6 MB
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.
Datum: 28.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 4.9 MB
Jeff & Joel are joined this week by Eric Ries, author and expert on The Lean Startup. Click through for all the topics discussed...
Datum: 27.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 33.7 MB
Our guest today is James Portnow of Extra Credits. We are also joined in the studio by David Fullerton.
Datum: 26.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 31.3 MB
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 drive successful publishing. Brian O'Leary di...
Datum: 25.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13 MB
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.
Datum: 20.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.4 MB
Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, shows Dr. Moira Gunn just how much biotechnology is already working in health care.
Datum: 20.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10 MB
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 developer Nick Burch discusses the work of the ASF an...
Datum: 19.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 21.7 MB
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 Geddes imagines the public will soon be ready to ...
Datum: 17.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 17.3 MB
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.
Datum: 14.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 20.1 MB
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.
Datum: 14.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 3.6 MB
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.
Datum: 12.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 24.8 MB
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 marketers talk about their data assets and how it direct...
Datum: 11.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 16.7 MB
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 affect the VoIP industry in the future. Cullen ana...
Datum: 10.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 11 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and representative for the California 11th congressional district, Jerry McNeaney about his vision for a Clean Energy Nation.
Datum: 06.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 15.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the latest treatments for cancer with John Beadle, CEO of PsiOxus Therapeutics and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals President, John Maraganore.
Datum: 06.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 8.5 MB
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.
Datum: 05.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 30.8 MB
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 evolution of HD voice at the recently held eComm confere...
Datum: 04.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
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 refines and demystifies access to this FDA data.
Datum: 03.10.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 9.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about how to innovate on a shoestring budget with Author and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, Eric Ries.
Datum: 29.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about a new approach to delivering immuno-suppressants to organ transplant recipients with Veloxis Pharmaceuticals CEO, Bill Polvino.
Datum: 29.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
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).
Datum: 28.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 36 MB
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 the use of an interconnected network will impact t...
Datum: 27.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
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 function today as then, helping move the interacti...
Datum: 26.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 6.3 MB
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.
Datum: 22.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
Dr. Moira Gunn catches up talks about next generation drugs and smart bacteria with University of Illinois professor, Ananda Charkarbarty.
Datum: 22.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
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.
Datum: 21.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 31.6 MB
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 company's culture intact as it manages hypergrowth...
Datum: 20.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 18.4 MB
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 shares his experience creating a video project of S...
Datum: 19.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 12.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Laurie R King about how Sherlock Holmes stories engaged the 19th century science community.
Datum: 15.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
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.
Datum: 15.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
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 there). There's still a full hour of Jeff &...
Datum: 14.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 27.3 MB
"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. The future of mobile is bright. The future of the in...
Datum: 13.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 8.2 MB
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 building automation". As one of its developers, Bri...
Datum: 13.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 22.2 MB
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. Parallel wireless radio communication architecture will ...
Datum: 12.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 4.2 MB
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.
Datum: 10.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
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.
Datum: 10.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
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]
Datum: 07.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 35.4 MB
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 Foursquare, its new API, what it is and isn't, ...
Datum: 05.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10.5 MB
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, what makes them popular, and why price might not...
Datum: 02.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 9 MB
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.
Datum: 01.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 17.8 MB
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.
Datum: 01.09.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 4.9 MB
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 about new technologies, such as Netflix and Google...
Datum: 31.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 15.5 MB
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 to love.
Datum: 31.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 33.8 MB
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.
Datum: 25.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 16.1 MB
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.
Datum: 25.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
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 performance times, while maintaining drop-in compatibi...
Datum: 24.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 11.9 MB
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 technology experts have to deal with expansion as more or...
Datum: 23.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 22.9 MB
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&T discusses the evolution of mobile networks in th...
Datum: 22.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 9.8 MB
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 in humanitarian response and human rights. Citing v...
Datum: 19.08.2011 04:00 •
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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.
Datum: 18.08.2011 04:00 •
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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.
Datum: 18.08.2011 04:00 •
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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 where the future for telecommunications will be. The ...
Datum: 16.08.2011 04:00 •
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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.
Datum: 11.08.2011 04:00 •
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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 Werner and Managing Director, Morrin Ruffin.
Datum: 11.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10.1 MB
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 guest to do so!) - he also writes over at Herbivo...
Datum: 10.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 30.7 MB
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 industries. Touching on both the far past and future, S...
Datum: 09.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.9 MB
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 commercial viability and safety for third party developer...
Datum: 08.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 17.6 MB
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 more tough questions. He predicts a questionable futu...
Datum: 05.08.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Biogen Idec Senior Vice President, Gunther Winkler about the Asia-Pacific Biotech landscape.
Datum: 04.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 9.9 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn talks with neurobiologist, Dean Buonomano, about brains and how they work from the pages of his new book, Brain Bugs.
Datum: 04.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.7 MB
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 products over the years - he's also well known...
Datum: 03.08.2011 04:00 •
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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 from simple fluctuations in oscillation. Beyond aest...
Datum: 02.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10.1 MB
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 storage. He also presents technical facts, figures, an...
Datum: 01.08.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 11.5 MB
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 communicationss companies were the only game in tow...
Datum: 30.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.1 MB
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 May IPO of LinkedIn, Hoffman predicts what Web 3.0 w...
Datum: 29.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
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.
Datum: 28.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn looks at Scientific American's Worldview on biotech with Publishing Director, Jeremy Abbate and Editor of the Worldview Scorecard, Yali Friedman.
Datum: 28.07.2011 04:00 •
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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 background in design to how he ended up at Stack Exc...
Datum: 27.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 28.2 MB
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 are allowing end users to create their own maps us...
Datum: 26.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 6.2 MB
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 commercial database. Alternatively focusing on the b...
Datum: 22.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10 MB
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-Mellon University Thorne Professor of Entrepreneur...
Datum: 21.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 23.1 MB
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 tons of discussion covering everything from creating ...
Datum: 20.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 24.4 MB
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. Crumlish and Malone provide cases for Twitter, Dropbox,...
Datum: 19.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 6.5 MB
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 improved by using all the data that we generate e...
Datum: 18.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 6.5 MB
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 plans to enhance user experience by leveraging locat...
Datum: 15.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 5.3 MB
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 humanitarian effort at DSM Nutritional Products with Com...
Datum: 14.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 22.8 MB
"Incumbents, Attackers, and Disruptors" are accelerating mobile Internet development. The ability to gain market share through innovation and motivating shoppers will sort winners from losers in the smartphone market, according to Mary Meeker. Currently, mobile Internet adoption is acceler...
Datum: 12.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 9.2 MB
A flash at 3 AM inspired Wei-Min Shen and Peter Will to use life-like hormones to control robot transformations. Years later, Wei-Min Shen is still learning new advantages of such a novel life-science approach to robotic control. In this interview, Per Sjöborg asks Wei-Min Shen how he defines three-...
Datum: 11.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn gets up to speed on advances in nanotechnology with Roland Germann from IBM's Nanotechnology Center Operations and Lord Alec Broers, Chairman, Diamond Light Source, while author Robert Vamosi looks at gadget security.
Datum: 08.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 23.2 MB
Technology is changing: not only is it faster, more universal, and more integral to all facets of life, but each piece of technology is evolving to be quick, universal and integral by becoming multi-functional and interactive. Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer of frog design, gives a glimpse into...
Datum: 06.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 12.8 MB
Giving a quick history of MySQL, Tomas Ulin and Duleepa Wijayawardhana explain the changes the system has seen in the editions from MySQL 5.1 to the present MySQL 5.6. Tomas Ulin, Vice President of the MySQL Engineering team, also discusses the current state of affairs for MySQL, recently acquired b...
Datum: 05.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 17.4 MB
Author Margaret Atwood, creator of fictional dystopias, speaks on the plight of the author in the face of changes to the publishing industry today. She takes it down to first principles, in a partly historic, partly autobiographical way, how the "publishing pie" is divided. She warns the p...
Datum: 04.07.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 15.7 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with New York Times best-selling author, Lisa See, about her new book, Dreams of Joy, and where she looks at the impact of questionable science in China during the Great Leap Forward.
Datum: 30.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 15.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Randy Schatzman and Mark Litton from Alder Biopharmceuticals about they procedure for treating wasting disease as a part of cancer treatment.
Datum: 30.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 8 MB
As many mobile phone companies have discovered, users have changed how their view their device, moving from a general communications tool to something that now has become a major part of their everyday life. Morten Hjerde, formerly of Vodaphone, discusses how mobile operators are learning how users...
Datum: 29.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
Tom Preston-Werner presents GitHub as a site that breaks through barriers that slow collaboration and sharing code. Describing it as a mechanism to prevent wasting time, he notes multiple uses of the site, including file sharing, project creation, and code development.
Datum: 28.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 5.2 MB
The future is not just in social media's connection to people but in "discovery:" the virtual exploration of physical spaces. This is what Dennis Crowley, founder of Foursquare, believes is the future of location applications. The check-in provides more than just the ability to see &q...
Datum: 27.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the history, the challenges and the issues of getting medicine to people versus the legal guarantees of drugs patents with World Trade Organization representatives, Keith Rockwell and Antony Taubman.
Datum: 23.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 23.1 MB
Pachube is an on-line database service provider that allows developers to connect sensor data to the Web and to build their own applications on it. Its creator, Usman Haque, discusses it, reviewing what Pachube is, how it can be used, and examples of its value as a way to manage data. He argues that...
Datum: 21.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 21.8 MB
The Know Your Meme team gives this fast-tempo and seamless presentation of Know Your Meme as an important node of internet culture and folklore. Comparing themselves to American musicologist and folklorist John Lomax, they delineate the issues of internet meme-recording: even where you might think t...
Datum: 20.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 5.8 MB
Open source databases face a variety of challenges as the technological world continues to change. Baron Schwartz, Chief Performance Architect at Percona, observes that database developers must understand the contexts of database usage within the central challenge of increased data. He notes that op...
Datum: 17.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Pulitzer Prize winning author and New York Times journalist, Matt Richtel about his new thriller, Devil's Plaything, where he marries an exquisite nightmare with true science.
Datum: 16.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 16.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with Senior Vice President of Business Development at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Paul Laikind, about how non-profit research works with not-for-profit biotech.
Datum: 16.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7 MB
How can cloud email and calendaring not only save $5 million but improve communication between staff? The City of Los Angeles CTO, Randi Levin, has embraced the next generation of IT services simultaneously cutting costs and enabling staff to access emails and calendars via web, mobile and desktop....
Datum: 15.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.5 MB
Nearly every day the news media carries stories about how much information the government compiles about the average citizen. As Daniel J. Solove writes in his new book Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security, many people say, "If you've got nothing to hide, you sh...
Datum: 14.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 26.5 MB
Nick Pudar has an audacious vision of a convergent future where automotive components are able to upload metadata to the cloud to enable software to extrapolate information about a user's intent, and intervene on their behalf. His company OnStar is clearly pushing the envelope in the space of a...
Datum: 13.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 5.6 MB
Ray Kurzweil has spent most of his life imagining what the future might be like, and then inventing it. In this keynote from 2010, Kurzweil shares his vision of the future with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. The interview begins with a discussion about the Blio, the futur...
Datum: 09.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 20.2 MB
As part of his work for the Utah Education Network, Pete Kruckenberg originally began a project using Apache and Perl. A few months into the process, his group chose to switch to node.js to complete the project. He speaks about why the change was made, including both the postive aspects, as well as ...
Datum: 07.06.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with WCG CTO and Media Officer, Bob Pearson, about how buying online has changed from E-Commerce to Pre-Commerce.
Datum: 05.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 16.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the new science of longevity from Columnist and Author, David Duncan.
Datum: 05.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.5 MB
There are several problems in current database systems, primarily analytics, data capture, and storage. These are not future problems, argues Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, but current struggles within both MySQL and the 'NoSQL' data systems that must be overcome before the industry can have cle...
Datum: 03.06.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.6 MB
"Cutting through the hype," game designer and social architecture expert Amy Jo Kim breaks down the process of creating games. She presents 'gamification' and game design with target audiences in mind. The underlying goal, she stresses, is to know your audience and meet it'...
Datum: 31.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 6.6 MB
Modular self-healing self-directing robots that can work together independently to achieve tasks... This sounds like something out of a Science Fiction film. Per Sjoborg talks with Dr. Chih-Han Yu of the Computer Science department at Harvard University about ground-breaking work inspired by biology...
Datum: 27.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 5.3 MB
What is a Transmedia Producer? Although this new role was recently recognized by the Producer's Guild of America, many people are unaware of it. Jeff Gomez explains how a Transmedia Production works, weaving in examples from Avatar and other projects, he introduces the audience to a new creativ...
Datum: 23.05.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Baxter International Chief Scientific Officer, Norbert Riedel, about what hospitals will look like in the future.
Datum: 20.05.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the emergence and power behind opinion space with craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media at UC Berkeley, Ken Goldberg.
Datum: 19.05.2011 04:00 •
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With memories of the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami fresh in our minds, we hear Lisa Katayama deftly present her prediction that the 2011 earthquake will trigger a wave of innovation and reinvention. Katayama explores how the island of Japan and concerned people around the world used the Int...
Datum: 18.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 5 MB
At Edmonds, the car-shopping site, "ads are our bread and butter," says Ismail Elshareef, Director of Front-end Engineering. But they needed more speed. Elshareef set a goal to have load events firing in 1.5 seconds, while maintaining the same number of ad impressions and ad events on the ...
Datum: 16.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 9.5 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn meets Dr. Michael Jackson, Vice President for Drug Discovery and Development at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and learns about how massive robots are taking the drudge work out of looking for new drugs.
Datum: 14.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 4.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn dives into the world of Google, learning how it is changing the world around us from the pages of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, works and Shapes Our Lives, from Wired Senior Writer, Stephen Levy.
Datum: 13.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 18.5 MB
Dave Fetterman calls it a "match made in absolute heaven." The best social content is in the mobile world where things are actually happening. Social networks and mobile media are not just for users anymore, but are becoming channels for developers as well. Hear what is enabling this perf...
Datum: 11.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 8.2 MB
After the earthquake in Haiti, a community of crisis mappers immediately began crowdsourcing open street maps in a way that has changed disaster response forever. Using an open source stack and simple collaboration tools to annotate image sets, usable maps were quickly put in the hands of rescue wo...
Datum: 09.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Duke University professor and author, Misha Angrist, about her new book, Here is a Human Being, where she dives into comprehensible explanations of the DNA of being human.
Datum: 07.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Science Channel host and author, Michio Kaku, about his new book, Physics of the Future: How Science will shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100.
Datum: 06.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10.8 MB
Are you experiencing slow load times on ad-supported pages? The optimization of display ad content is pretty well worked out, so frustrating delays are more likely to be the result of numerous HTTP requests related to two things: the complicated real-time ad-serving market and the tracking attached ...
Datum: 05.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 8.8 MB
Imagine what it would be like to find out that your best friend had cancer; what would you do? In this keynote presentation about social media and social action, Jennifer Lynn Aker shares a touching story of what a small group of people did when they found out that their friends were dying, and how ...
Datum: 02.05.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 4.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Ambrx CEO, Dr. Steve Kaldor, about once-a-week human growth hormone.
Datum: 30.04.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with sociologist and network science pioneer Duncan Watts about his new book, Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer, where he suggests that common sense and history can mislead us into believing that we understand more about the world of human behavior than we do.
Datum: 28.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 17.4 MB
One of the great aspects of 21st century technology is the ability to use and keep track of public information. Unfortunately, many government agencies choose not to take advantage of the ways to communicate with the public. Micah Sifry returns to Technometria to discuss the status of open governmen...
Datum: 27.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 27.1 MB
How much does a 1-second transaction cost you? This is exactly what Aladdin Nassar, one of three performance engineers for Windows Live Hotmail, is trying to find out. Hear how they measure and track 1.3 billion accounts at Microsoft, to improve the performance of Windows Live Hotmail, end to end.
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Datum: 25.04.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Steve Rosenbaum about how the data aggregator's new role on the Internet from the pages of his new book, Curation Nation: Why the Future of Content is Context.
Datum: 21.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 18.8 MB
Commerce enters a new phase which brings back "local and personal", Google's Osama Bedier explains. But the innovation won't come without its challenges. These trends require payments to become completely digital, inventories to move to the cloud and platforms that determine us...
Datum: 19.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 4.7 MB
Deborah Estrin talks about GIS tracing of individual activity, it's fascinating usefulness, and potential privacy drawbacks. She assesses how combining tools such as location trace and environmental data with a wellness focus can inform public policy and personal decision making. According to E...
Datum: 18.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the Personal Genomes Project at Harvard Medical School and "Do It Yourself" Biotech from the Director of Community, Jason Bobe.
Datum: 16.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 9.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn looks into the future with author and comedian, Mark Stevenson, through the pages of his new book, An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer 'What's Next?
Datum: 15.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.4 MB
Self-assembling robotic gastric surgeons, small enough to swallow, will requires advances in magnetic connectors to become a reality. Zoltan Nagy researches tiny magnetic connectors. His goal is to create self-reconfiguring modular robotics (SRCMR) which are robust enough for surgery within the huma...
Datum: 14.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.6 MB
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon speeding down the motorway, filled with magnetic tapes full of data. Those tapes hold a large amount of data, but the station wagon is hardly traveling at the speed of light; and adding more station wagons isn't going to make them go any fast...
Datum: 12.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with the Director of Personalized Medicine for Life Technologies, Linh Hoang, about personalized medicine, and what that means for a breast cancer study with just 14 select women.
Datum: 09.04.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks about cybercrime with Wired editor and author, Kevin Poulsen, about his new book Kingpin, How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground.
Datum: 08.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 19 MB
John Heilemann talks with FCC chair Julius Genachowski about the FCC's policy-making positions and challenges for the 21st century; including spectrum reapportionment, net neutrality, keeping up with the spectrum requirements of mobile broadband, global competitiveness, and "keeping the pi...
Datum: 06.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 15.8 MB
Consumer mapping on the web and traditional back-office geographic information systems (GIS) are becoming less distinct. Both are more accessible, standards-based, and flexible. Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, speaks about the creation of a publicly accessible GIS mapping system, ArcGIS.com, a w...
Datum: 05.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Paul Chew, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer for the US division of Sanofi-Aventis, touching on the latest from Diabetes to triple-negative breast cancer. She then talks with Chris Stern, CEO of Oxygen Biotherapeutics about their innovative oxygen carriers.
Datum: 02.04.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 8.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and Managing Director for Alchemy Growth Partners, Mehrdad Baghai, about his new book, As One: Individual Action, Collective Power. Published in Feburary 2011, this book is already being heralded as the key to unleashing lost productivity, hidden potential in people,...
Datum: 31.03.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 15.7 MB
The market is beginning to fight being "hijaaked" by proprietary SDKs to develop mobile content and experiences. Blackberry maker, Jim Balsillie, shares his predictions for the rapidly-changing mobile market. Balsillie thinks the days of proprietary SDKs are as doomed as proprietary DRMs f...
Datum: 29.03.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn learns about two vaccines: the first intended for prevention and the second, for people already infected with HIV, from Geovax President and CEO, Robert McNally.
Datum: 25.03.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and investigative journalist, Seth Mnookin about the "bad science" which improperly suggested a link between vaccinations and autism.
Datum: 24.03.2011 04:00 •
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"Store em if you got em!" That's the way Lindsey Simon of Google describes the crowd sourced Browserscope project for profiling web browsers. Take thousands of browser tests, store them in the cloud, and share them through various visualizations. Browserscope aims to track the perfo...
Datum: 23.03.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 4.5 MB
"Users beget content, which begets more users." That's how Jeremy Stoppelman, Co-Founder of Yelp, explains how he adds a million reviews every few months, more than 10 million in total in a massive base of local information. Sought after by investors and partners for their ability to...
Datum: 22.03.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 10 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with respected trends forecaster, Daniel Burrus about his new book, Flash Foresight, where he introduces the concept of harnessing ones sixth sense.
Datum: 19.03.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 13.8 MB
From rebuilding communities in Detroit around technological and artistic innovation to improving legal services, each of these speakers share their experiences and insights as to why groups succeed - and sometimes fail - in their attempts to adopt the latest information technology developments and a...
Datum: 18.03.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira gun dives into the theoretical physics with Professor Brian Greene from the pages of his new book, The Hidden Reality ? Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. In it, he takes readers through theories of multiple universes, of the continual birth of universes, starting long bef...
Datum: 17.03.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 6.8 MB
Ramy Habeeb of Kotobarabia hopes to generate interest in the Arab publishing industry, an emerging market. He believes it is incipient and thus ripe for new entrants. While he believes it will mature, it needs improvements in the areas of distribution, censorship and preservation. He discusses how e...
Datum: 15.03.2011 04:00 •
Größe: 9.9 MB
Currently popular JavaScript benchmarking programs may report misleading results, potentially wasting developers' time. Ben Zorn, a research engineer from Microsoft, shows case-by-case examples of misleading results revealed by his work with co-authors Ben Livshits and Paruj Ratanaworabhan. Be...
Datum: 14.03.2011 04:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn tracks down author, Guy Kawasaki, to talk about his new book Enchantment: Changing the Hearts, Minds and Actions.
Datum: 10.03.2011 05:00 •
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Dr. Moria Gunn looks to the future of computers and biotechnology, with Anaris President and CEO, Joan Lau.
Datum: 10.03.2011 05:00 •
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In these two Gov 2.0 presentations, Jeffrey A. Sorenson and Clay Johnson, respectively, showcase the inventive winning entries and motivations behind "Apps for the Army" and The Sunlight Foundation's "Design for America" competitions. Through utilizing the potential and inpu...
Datum: 09.03.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 9.1 MB
Given that amount of digital data available about people and businesses, users are discovering that they have no way to control and correct information about themselves. The Personal Data Ecosystem is a project meant to help create ways for better digital management. Three members of the PDE communi...
Datum: 08.03.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 25.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about journalism and the internet with author and former Former Associated Press correspondent, Tom Rachman. Rachman's debut book, The Imperfectionists, begins as a celebration of the original 24/7 news cycle with focused on the personal lives of various news reporters, exe...
Datum: 04.03.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 12.8 MB
How does a 3rd party Web application developer make the app run fast on the host site? And how can it do so without breaking other things on the site? How can an app load lots of features and functionality, while avoiding blocking the rest of the page from loading and giving the user a negative perc...
Datum: 03.03.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 15.2 MB
Google has crawled over 3 billion lines of computer code, revealing some surprising trends. "The way people code is very interesting," says Chris DiBona, Google's open source programs manager. He shares insights from the "Google Code" project, and closes by identifying &quo...
Datum: 01.03.2011 05:00 •
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Is the cloud infrastructure becoming the "new hardware?" What are the issues around points of control, and who will end up being the custodian of our information? What does the "global operating system infrastructure" look like? Hear informed perspectives on these timely questio...
Datum: 28.02.2011 05:00 •
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Catching spammers is like playing Whack-A-Mole, says Cheryl Ainoa, SVP of Global Services Engineering at Yahoo, and on the massive scale of email traffic that Yahoo handles around the clock, globally, there's always a trick. In this brief presentation, she discussed using Hadoop to reduce daily...
Datum: 25.02.2011 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and MIT Professor, Sherry Turkle, about her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other. In it, she talks about how peoples relationships with their devices is effective their human relationships.
Datum: 24.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
eReaders are big. And so is social media. How about an eReader platform with a social component. Copia is an eReading platform, a book store and a means to connect to people with similar reading tastes. You can choose the books you want to read, and discuss them with others on Copia. It's like ...
Datum: 22.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
If you remember programming in C, you'll remember that it felt like music, or wine, or philosophy. Programming languages back then were laconic; they said all in just a few words. Today's mainstream programming languages, in contrast, are heavy, intricate and verbose. How did we get here a...
Datum: 21.02.2011 05:00 •
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Kyle Gilpin talks about his work with electropermanent magnets, which make excellent connectors for modular robots as they are strong, small, solid state, consume power only when connecting or disconnecting, and they can also handle communication and power transfer. Kyle also discusses how he
used e...
Datum: 16.02.2011 05:00 •
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Conferences are very important to professionals, particularly in the technology industry, where developing new ideas and services often begin as part of brainstorming. Eric Norlin discusses his work in running conferences, including Defrag, Gluecon, and Blur. He also reviews the issues related to us...
Datum: 15.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 17.7 MB
For the Chinese search engine, Baidu, Google's withdrawal from mainland China was described as "a great gift from Eric Schmidt." Baidu's Search exploded following Google's exit from China. This interview reveals how that came about. Baidu's Co-Founder, Chairman and Ch...
Datum: 14.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 15 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Parag Khanna, to discuss the idea of mega-diplomacy from the pages of his new book, How to Run the World ? Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance.
Datum: 10.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 12.7 MB
In a departure from the typical technology interviews and presentations, Doug Kaye reviews the recent trip to Egypt that started just before the country's demonstrations commenced. He tells the story of how he and his wife dealt with the events and what he learned from talking to Egyptian citiz...
Datum: 08.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 29 MB
Digital distribution is here to stay, and Hollywood knows it. While studios experiment with new distribution models, talent agencies are capitalizing on a new world where content is king. In this interview, Ari Emanuel, Co-CEO of one of the largest talent agencies in the world, talks about represent...
Datum: 07.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 21.6 MB
Facebook is faster, and now comes the hard part. With many millions of users worldwide, and a constantly changing interface, Facebook's engineering team must continually strive to optimize their software to handle billions of page views per day. Robert Johnson shares many tips and lessons lear...
Datum: 04.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 8.4 MB
Dr, Moira Gunn chats with Amir Levine and Racher Heller, co-authors of "Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love." In the book the authors explore the biology behind our relationship needs, teach readers how to identify their own and loved ...
Datum: 03.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 18.2 MB
Contrary to digital media, monographs are becoming financially nonviable to produce and maintain. Frances Pinter, Publisher at Bloomsbury Academic, argues that the only way to rescue monographs is to publish them under a Creative Commons license, provide open access, and charge customers for print-o...
Datum: 01.02.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 11 MB
Technology-fueled bottom up change is coming to 21st century diplomacy and statecraft. In this Gov 2.0 presentation, Alec Ross speaks about the State Department's commitment to a revamped technology initiative that makes diplomacy more citizen-centered. The new initiative seeks to empower every...
Datum: 31.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
Facebook's David Recordon discusses the history and evolution of the LAMP stack, and how this simple idea is central to the way that open source-backed web sites are built today. By now, the open source community offers a huge number of software choices for solving a wide variety of scaling cha...
Datum: 28.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 6.5 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author, Don Tapscott, about his new book, MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. In it, he and his co-writer, Anthony Williams, illustrate how mass collaboration is changing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace....
Datum: 27.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 14.7 MB
Are we in the middle of a bubble or boom? That's the key question in this "Great VC Smackdown." This frothy time, they agree, is an unusual and exciting one. They agree that only great companies should go public today. Then, dispensing with equanimity, the fireworks begin.
Datum: 26.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 17.7 MB
In this Gov 2.0 presentation, Sonal Shah, head of Social Innovation and Civic Participation for the United States Government, discusses the role of technology in improving the country. From education to healthcare, Shah highlights opportunities for social innovation, and references current and futur...
Datum: 24.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 11 MB
Cloud computing offers immediate and wide-ranging advantages to businesses. However, with the potential benefits of utilizing the cloud come parallel concerns including performance. Studies conducted by Gomez Inc. found out that even a slight improvement in performance of an application can impact ...
Datum: 21.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 8.1 MB
Announcing the creation of setiQuest, Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute makes an appeal for aid from the open source developer community. Tarter invites the open source community to check out the SETICloud stack, and highlights advances in fifty years of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence....
Datum: 19.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 6.2 MB
Constant performance improvement is essential to converting page views to sales and Shopzilla has the numbers to prove it. After analyzing the impact of site performance slowdowns, they committed to improving their customer's experience and their bottom line. They succeeded. Through the changes...
Datum: 17.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 5.8 MB
The government is not a vending machine for services. In this Gov 2.0 presentation Tim O'Reilly discusses how the government can be a development platform for greatness by taking advantage of web 2.0 features ranging from cloud computing and social media to mobile platforms.
Datum: 14.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 6.2 MB
Digital topographic maps are just one example of the new geospatial information accessible to you (and your software via API's). Mark L. DeMulder reports on The National Map of the United States, a collaborative effort to deliver downloadable data and maps, products and services. The geographic...
Datum: 12.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
The Mobile Sensing Group at Dartmouth College is helping lead the way in turning the everyday mobile phone into an open global mobile sensing platform for personal, social-nets and societal-scale sensing. Led by faculty member Andrew Campbell, the group is working to be involved in new ways to use m...
Datum: 11.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 20.8 MB
"Tap and pay" enabling cell phones to replace credit cards -- just one of the innovations Eric Schmidt sees coming soon. As mobile and internet markets grow at exponential rates, Google is building applications that will re-shape how we use that technology. Google CEO Eric Schmidt sits dow...
Datum: 10.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 20.8 MB
Opposite Google, Facebook and Twitter, there is Gowalla--a location-based service that sits on top of its bigger, more established internet cousins. Gowalla's proposition, using collectible virtual goods and digital souvenirs, helps the relatively young location-based social networking service...
Datum: 07.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 6.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with USC professor and author, Antonio Dimasio, about the connection between mind and body and how they related to consciousness.
Datum: 06.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 19.5 MB
From podcast to hardcover bestseller. Scott Sigler surprised the publishing world in 2007 when his book, Ancestor, released by small publisher Dragon Moon Press, appeared on the Amazon bestseller list. It was already available on line as a free serialized podcast, where it had gained 10,000 fans. In...
Datum: 05.01.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 10.3 MB
Cultural change is often the only solution. Technologists naturally turn to technological solutions to the problems they encounter at work. But many of our most difficult problems in the workplace are cultural, so truly effective solutions require changing the way we think. John Rauser, engineer a...
Datum: 29.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 8.6 MB
"Move fast, be bold and take risks" is what Mark Zuckerberg tries to hammer home every day. A series of news-making revelations about Facebook's strategies broke at this talk. Facebook is going to build platforms to offer access to it's 500 million users. CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat ...
Datum: 28.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 26.4 MB
How do enterprise-level MySQL installations avoid spikes, pile-ups, and freeze-ups during peak operations? Crash-proof solutions are not beyond the capabilities of open-source database software, Baron Schwartz explains. He outlines Percona's enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB. They include XtraDB...
Datum: 27.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 3.2 MB
There's a lot of talk about the use of open source in government, but oftentimes during procurement, the idea isn't taken seriously. Bryan Sivak, Chief Technical Officer of the District of Columbia, celebrates a 20% Linux data center, the Design for Democracy competitions, and the introduc...
Datum: 24.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 5.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn joins a panel discussion with members of the Purdue Science Journalism Laureates Program, reading and talking about this year's 100 Words.
Datum: 23.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 23.3 MB
You have have an opportunity to transform everything about the way we think about programming. This "big picture" talk starts with the Earth; it's losing mass at a rate of 1.5 grams per second due to the energy the Internet demands. This is in spite of the fact that programming langua...
Datum: 22.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 23.7 MB
Jamillah Knowles and Chris Vallance tease out the strands of the Wikileaks story so far and chat with experts on the real meaning of cyberwar and the future of leaked documents. Oh - and there's a great song about maths too.
Datum: 21.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
Twitter, a game-changing Internet icon, rolled out initially as an internal service for Odeo employees and was introduced to the public in July 2006. Four years later, the service enjoys 190 million visitors monthly with about 15 million active users sending 750 "tweets" per second. In t...
Datum: 20.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 10.5 MB
8000 location-based applications around the world and this number will more than double by the end of the year, Ted Morgan claims. The incorporation of location-based features accelerates growth in the mobile space. Ted Morgan started Skyhook, an innovator in location-based services, which helps ap...
Datum: 15.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
Picnik's original operations staff person, Justin Huff, and second hire, Tim Wilfong tell the story of how the company removed a SPOF, a single point of failure, by hiring Tim. They list some good rules of thumb for this operational transition, and are frank about the flexibility, honesty and l...
Datum: 14.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 12.7 MB
Metrics have to be state of the art to measure performance on SSDs, solid state drives. In this short yet technical talk, Dr. Bradley Kuszmaul from Tokutech and MIT discusses his own experiences. Comparing InnoDB to his own team's TokuDB he discusses why the fractal based model is faster at dea...
Datum: 10.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 3.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and former Lotus Development President, Jeff Papows, about the three forces which create software glitches, how they are effecting society at large, and how we can fix them.
Datum: 09.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 14.7 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with former Wired magazine Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Kelly, about his new book, What Technology Wants, and his theory that technology is undergoing its own evolution.
Datum: 09.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 13.3 MB
Stormy Peters of the GNOME Foundation makes a call for the development of free, open-source web services in which complete data rights are maintained by the user. Noting cases of data lock-outs, or re-use of user data by service providers, she calls for close examination of user agreements. In this ...
Datum: 08.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 5.2 MB
MeshCentral, a remote monitoring and management web site, allows a user to connect with home or office devices from anywhere in the world. It requires a special management agent on computers, but once installed, the computers will show up in the My Devices section of the MeshCentral web site allowin...
Datum: 07.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 21.6 MB
Website performance is second only to security in user expectations, claims Joshua Bixby, president of Strangeloop Networks. He suggests that web page rendering must be kept under two seconds to retain user loyalty. Website acceleration directly impacts a company's business metrics and KPIs. ...
Datum: 06.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 16 MB
To enable a free flow of data across platforms, operating systems and languages, Jean Paoli and his team, the Interoperability Strategy team at Microsoft, are working tirelessly. Paoli asks "What is an open cloud?" He contends that it's a cloud where data moves easily in and out, wher...
Datum: 01.12.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 6.7 MB
Apple's Steve Jobs has a reputation for innovation, particularly Apple's company slogan of "Think Different". Carmine Gallo wrote a book that reviewed Jobs' presentation secrets and now details his innovation secrets. Gallo discusses his book, including the seven points of i...
Datum: 30.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 24.7 MB
Musician and CD Baby founder Derek Sivers had already built his popular music selling website using his own cobbled-together PHP framework when he realized he needed to do something different. His quirky code was not able to scale as the site grew and Rails was the solution. In his 2010 Railsconf ke...
Datum: 29.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 19.9 MB
DigitalGlobe fills the need for fast and accurate geospatial information, which has become ubiquitous in today's always-on environment. Walter Scott demonstrates the latest innovations in satellite imaging technology and web solutions. New developments set the pace for a revolution in GPS and...
Datum: 26.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 7.1 MB
Are you Cowboysaurus rex? Or Signaturus maximus? Find yourself in this taxonomy of change management practices. Learn the pros and cons of each classification and how well they fare as developers and operations try to work together to create value for their organization. Andrew Shafer, Engineering ...
Datum: 25.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 15.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author, Robert Kaplan, about the Indian Ocean and his new book Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. Looking at everything from the history to the regions geopolitics, Kaplan gets us up to speed on affairs of the region.
Datum: 25.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 12.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with distinguished University of Illinois professor, Mark Rasenick, about the science of depression.
Datum: 25.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 11.3 MB
The web continues to evolve as new devices appear and new standards are adopted. The iPhone and other mobile devices are now in the mix of places where people go to connect with each other. Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith call from Belgium where they were attending the Devoxx 2010 conference. They tal...
Datum: 23.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 20.9 MB
Kathy Sierra examines how to create passionate citizens by inviting people to understand the dynamics of passion. Drawing on an interest in the brain and artificial intelligence, developed during her days as a game developer (Virgin, Amblin', MGM), Sierra explains what is necessary to instill a...
Datum: 22.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
One of the big challenges in Self Re-Configuring Modular Robotics is to handle the large number of robots that are involved. Controlling thousands of robots is hard, and doing so reliably and efficiently is even harder. Michael Rubenstein talks about building, managing and controlling 1024 robots. H...
Datum: 19.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 8.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with prominent public radio host, author and agnostic, Micheal Krasny, about the contents of his new book, Spiritual Envy ? An Agnostic's Quest.
Datum: 18.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 12.6 MB
On foursquare's first birthday, 200 people in a Chicago bar called founder Dennis Crowley via Skype to sing. They all earned their swarm patches that night. In a year, 750,000 users signed up, made 22 million check-ins, and convinced 1400 venues to offer foursquare specials. Mom-and-pop venues ...
Datum: 17.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 9.2 MB
Data transparency is not enough; danah boyd powerfully argues that the character of data depends on its interpretation and states her case for data literacy. If people are ignorant about how data is generated, selected and interpreted, power accrues to those who can 'spin' the data to supp...
Datum: 16.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with craigslist Distinguished Professor in New Media & Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. Ken Goldberg. They talk about Opinion Space, an experimental website of the US State Department.
Datum: 11.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 14.4 MB
"Everything fails all the time", says Amazon Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels. This is especially true in today's technologically complex world where more and more components are built in to a system. Lenny Rachitsky outlines the process in turning downtimes into an opportuni...
Datum: 10.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 16.3 MB
Computer software and hardware have greatly advanced over the last 30 years, but database architectures haven't changed in response. Slava Akhmechet and Michael Glukhovsky of RethinkDB are creating a whole new style of database to take advantage of new developments like fast solid state hard dr...
Datum: 08.11.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 16 MB
Paul Fenwick takes us through a humorous journey of bad inventions from bygone eras. They are cautionary tales with a plea for inventors not to screw up. He talks about asthma cigarettes, cocaine toothache drops for children, the Tempest prognosticator, and blood fueled devices. In the world of bad ...
Datum: 06.11.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 11.5 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn engages in a panel discussion on all things Nanotech with four of the world leading experts: Professor Patrick Maxwell, Head of Division of Medicine at University College, London, Professor Tony Cass, Research Director at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Professor Gabriel Aepp...
Datum: 04.11.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 17.1 MB
We have phones that take pictures, connect to the Internet, and play music. Now, Nokia is creating a line of smart phones with navigation programs for both drivers and pedestrians. Michael Halbherr focuses on describing the special features of the navigation programs, as well as how Nokia plans to c...
Datum: 03.11.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
Computer code is not yet art, but it could be. Neal Ford discusses aesthetics, constraints, creativity, and why the Ruby on Rails community is closer to art than other programming communities. He implores developers to create and define their own tastes, rather than merely consume what others have...
Datum: 02.11.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 17.5 MB
Self-reconfigurable robots are constructed of robotic modules that can be connected in many different ways. Kasper Stoy discusses his work in their development. He reviews how they are different from traditional robots, including why they are easier to keep working. He talks about how these robots c...
Datum: 01.11.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 24.9 MB
The human perception of web response time can be manipulated, says Yahoo! engineer Stoyan Stefanov. He talks about the subjective experience of time as experienced by Internet users. This understanding can help developers who are trying to "make the page feel faster, although it isn't.&qu...
Datum: 29.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 16.5 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with author, Bill Bryson about his new book, At Home: A Short History of Private Life. In it, he examines how common household items have transformed the way people lived, and how houses have evolved around certain items.
Datum: 28.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 16.9 MB
The Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK) loads into a Canon camera and enhances the firmware, giving the photographer more functions. One of its developers, Reed Mideke, discusses the project. He reviews the background of CHDK and talks about some of the options added by it. He also details some of the...
Datum: 26.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 20.4 MB
Twitter's new Director of Geolocation shows how automatically geo-tagging tweets creates self-generating groups that act in the real-world. Twitter geotaggers help responders with fires in Southern California, earthquakes in China, and elections in Iran. At the where2.0 conference in San Jose, ...
Datum: 25.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 8.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about rogue waves and the science that goes into finding them with author, Susan Casey. In her new book, The Wave ? In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean, Casey 'imparts awe in her rogue-wave connection of commerce, science, and sport'.
Datum: 21.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 10.5 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with scientist Ananda Chakabarty, who holds the first US Life Science Patent on a bacteria treatment for Cancer.
Datum: 21.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 13.6 MB
Don't just think about the cloud. Think about where it is taking us. Online collaboration is the first wave of a movement transforming how people network. A healthy commons is the real value of open source, making collaboration easier. This collaboration has assisted response to several recent ...
Datum: 20.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 6.4 MB
Open government data is being used to increase civic participation in a variety of ways. This series of Rapid Fire talks from the Gov 2.0 Summit shows how companies can transform government data for customers, how online tools can help citizens organize themselves, and how openness in software can ...
Datum: 19.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 14.3 MB
MySQL has had a turbulent couple of years after it was acquired by Sun and Sun was acquired by Oracle. Kaj Arnö, VP of Community Relations at MySQL reviews what has changed so far and what the future holds as MySQL integrates into Oracle.
Datum: 15.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 18.2 MB
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 offer...
Datum: 14.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 17.4 MB
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.
Datum: 14.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 6.3 MB
Social networking has quickly gone from new technology to cultural movement. The diminishing cost of connecting through Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn expands and enhances those weak-tie relationships on the outer edges of our social circles most of all. Clara Shih of Hearsay Labs explains Facebo...
Datum: 13.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 5.2 MB
WebHooks are meant to do something. The concept of a WebHook is simple. It is an HTTP callback: an HTTP POST that occurs when something happens; a simple event-notification via HTTP POST. Developer Jeff Lindsay talks about what a WebHook is and how it works as a programming API. He also discusses so...
Datum: 12.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 23.4 MB
There is no "in crowd" in the Ruby development community, so you shouldn't be worried about being excluded. Yehuda Katz of EngineYard shares stories of several important contributors to Ruby and Rails who started out knowing nothing, but through hard work and persistence created value...
Datum: 11.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 12.4 MB
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.
Datum: 07.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 14.5 MB
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 custome...
Datum: 07.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 15 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Mark Ledwidge and John Gilmer, from Solvotrin Therapeutics, about how they're finding new uses for Aspirin.
Datum: 07.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 8.8 MB
The elmcity project "collects online calendar events for geographic or topical communities." Meant to demonstrate the capabilities of Microsoft's Azure platform, it presents an opportunity for individuals to become curators for events. Jon Udell discusses the web service and how it de...
Datum: 05.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 23.6 MB
Joshua Bixby connects web site speed and performance with return on investment, as measured by increases in the size of orders and the number of conversions. He reports that his company demonstrated a 6% increase in order size and a 9% increase in conversions with improvements in the performance of ...
Datum: 04.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 3.2 MB
Lean Startup movement concepts have entered the zeitgeist, says Eric Ries. His IT-sector "mid-term report card" shows an industry under pressure, but he says successful entrepreneurs have a superior process: the Lean Startup process. They Pivot through a Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop. ...
Datum: 01.10.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
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.
Datum: 30.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 16 MB
Software glitches cost businesses a great deal of money. While some may seem mere inconveniences, others can cause major problems for both organizations and consumers. Jeff Papows discusses his new book, in which he talks about why glitches happen as well as how issues can be avoided in the future.
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Datum: 28.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 20.2 MB
Mike Arrington and Tim O'Reilly engage in a spirited exchange. O'Reilly argues that companies competing against Google, Apple or Facebook should strike out into new territories. Quoting Sun Tzu, O'Reilly admires PayPal for carving out a new niche, while he gives Apple's iPhone gr...
Datum: 27.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 11.8 MB
Facebook is one of the largest websites in the world, and it takes a lot to keep it running. Tom Cook of Systems Engineering at Facebook discusses the scale of the hardware required, the software, the IT stack, and best practices.
Datum: 24.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 17.8 MB
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.
Datum: 23.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 16.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Elan Pharmaceuticals President, Carlos Paya about the latest in innovative approaches to treating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients.
Datum: 23.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
Companies are working to develop apps software that take advantage of the growing number of hardware platforms. In addition to smartphones, browser developers are using the cloud to distribute programs. The group discusses these projects, as well as how new versions of browsers are coming that will ...
Datum: 21.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 18 MB
June Cohen of TED media takes us through TED's evolution from a conference, to a media company, and to a platform for spreading ideas. June shows us the kinds of challenges TED had to embrace and the obstacles they had to overcome. The risky business of radically open models, which June believe...
Datum: 20.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 9.9 MB
An open API for all government functions would be a transformative achievement, and Tim O'Reilly and Chris Vein have been working to make it a reality. In this free-flowing Q and A format, Chris Vein shares his experience as CIO for San Fransisco, building IT as a platform for the 21st century ...
Datum: 18.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 9.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn explores the quirky science behind preparing a space crew for a mission with Mary Roach, author of 'Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void' and meets two space entrepreneurs, who have experiments flying on the International Space Station.
Datum: 16.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 14.3 MB
In this presentation, Leading Edge researcher Simon Wardley explores hypotheses about change, reflecting on cloud computing and organizational shape. Considering how companies deal with the consequences and emerging patterns of change, Wardley asserts that the cloud increases innovation and producti...
Datum: 15.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 14 MB
Michael Feathers asks his audience whether clean code is good code. Looking at examples from business and academic research his talk seeks to address the problem of legacy code in software development. Taking some lessons from engineering he suggests some ways to make code better and cheaper.
Datum: 14.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 11.4 MB
Dean Halstead of the Microsoft SharePoint Product Design Team talks about social networking within government organizations in this Gov 2.0 presentation. He describes how SharePoint's out-of-the-box Gov 2.0 kit meets many social networking objectives within the operational constraints of govern...
Datum: 10.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 5.5 MB
Steve Spence looks at where interactive marketing is headed by looking at patterns happening now. Steve reviews the three emerging principles: on demand, online, and cross device. He looks at the 4Rs that are empowering both the masses and the marketers. He explores the meaning of viral and instant...
Datum: 08.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 21.1 MB
Tim O'Reilly discusses the impact of the advancements made in Web technologies on the future. His speech highlights the impact of mobile devices on application requirements, the need for real time processing, and the essential role people play in Web applications. In describing the important fu...
Datum: 08.09.2010 04:00 •
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John Resig, creator of jQuery, discusses it's purpose and development as well as the upcoming jQuery Mobile. As jQuery is meant to help cross-platform JavaScript software development from one browser to another, jQuery Mobile will help serve the same purpose among multiple mobile devices. John ...
Datum: 07.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 20.1 MB
Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail and founder of FriendFeed, which was recently acquired by Facebook, talks with Sarah Milstein about Facebook as a platform, openness online, how he evaluates companies he invests in and why anyone can be important online.
Datum: 03.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 6.4 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn talks with co-authors Peter Rogers and Susan Leal about the state of the worlds water supply from the pages of their new book, Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource.
Datum: 02.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 16.4 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn chats with the CEO for Somnus Therapeutics, Gary Cupit, on a new use for an old drug which is helping the weary sleep better.
Datum: 02.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
Brewster Kahle offers a tour of present and proposed uses for the open architecture BookServer ecosystem. This project is part of Kahle's quest to provide universal access to all knowledge. As digital librarian and co-founder of the acclaimed Internet Archive, Kahle works for worldwide, distrib...
Datum: 01.09.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 9.2 MB
Skip Prichard's discussion of the future of the publishing industry uses a jar of jam, an NFL running back, and a jazz musician to offer lessons for the publishing industry. He discusses how the lines between print and electronic publishing have blurred and this has huge ramifications for the p...
Datum: 30.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 9.9 MB
Vic Chaudhary introduces MITE 2.0, currently available in beta, which offers expanded capability to test web page presentation for thousands of different client devices in real time anywhere in the world from your desktop. The software is useful for developers, QA and test professionals, and web ope...
Datum: 28.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn talks with Dr. Aaron Blackledge, Medical Director for Care Practice, who's medical practice is driven thru social media.
Datum: 26.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 16.8 MB
Carl Malamud, president of Public.Resource.Org, describes observations which indicate how the internet wave, created in the private sector, has triggered success and could be extremely beneficial in the public sector in the future. He suggests that access to information and public documents may lea...
Datum: 24.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 9.6 MB
James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services talks about some of the innovations emerging in data center infrastructure and how the scale of the Web and the competition are pushing technology forward. Speed equals money and he describes how advances in power efficiency, server loading, and temperature man...
Datum: 23.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 13.9 MB
Speed should be feature #1 on any website. Urs Holzle of Google lists some of the ways that individual websites and the Internet as a whole could be sped up. Google's effort range from advancing browser technology to hosting fast versions of public resources like DNS. They have also studied ho...
Datum: 20.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 12.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Nicholas Carr, to discuss the weird, new, artificial world in which we now live, through the pages of his new book, The Shallows: What is the Internet Doing to Our Brains.
Datum: 19.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 14.7 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with the Director of Community for Harvard Medical School, Jason Bobe, about the Personal Genomes Project and "Do It Yourself" Biotech.
Datum: 18.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 9.3 MB
Describing the codes used throughout MySQL and explaining their limitations, Sheeri K. Cabral -- founder of the MySQL user group in Boston, Massachusetts -- discusses the use of time zones by that data system. The majority of her lecture is technical, but her concepts are easy to follow and she offe...
Datum: 17.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 9.3 MB
Ben Huh of the website I Can Has Cheezburger, speaks about the Internet as a global trend that allows people to share what they have on their minds. People use the Internet every day and never stop to think that this can be called a "cultural action". What would happen if absolutely everyo...
Datum: 16.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 5.2 MB
William Patry has been working with copyright law for 25 years and has a number of observations on this continuously evolving challenge. He says we lose respect for the legal system when we use it to solve business problems. Exploring regulatory capitalism as a tool to shield and protect incumbents ...
Datum: 13.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 11.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with science journalist and author, Matt Ridley, to talk about his new book, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves' and explain why he believes it is probable that humanity will be better off in the next century than it is today, and so will the ecology of our ...
Datum: 12.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 16.3 MB
Steve Gillmor muses about the present and possible futures like a "blind man at the toes of an elephant". He makes insightful comments on the death of RSS, the next wave of value, and the need for gestures. Steve explores harnessing Social Cloud Dynamics, the challenges of collaboration an...
Datum: 11.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 23.7 MB
Technology reporter Glenn Fleishman discusses a number of current networking and mobile issues. Beginning with an examination of a newly found hole in the 802.11 standard, he also discusses WiFi security issues and how both enterprises and the personal users are dealing with them. Glenn also reviews...
Datum: 10.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 25.4 MB
Beginning with a bit of history, Michael Widenius, co-founder and CTO of MySQL AB, gives a lecture on MySQL, MariaDB, and the purpose of his company. The topics branch to include developments and improvements in the MariaDB, as well as the general direction of the company.
Datum: 07.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 19.4 MB
These rapid fire talks feature two innovations in healthcare. Founder Carleen Hawn discusses some of the stories from Healthspottr, a website that showcases innovative patient technologies from around the world. Also PatientsLikeMe co-founder James Heywood explains how the platform creates communit...
Datum: 06.08.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 6.7 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the future with inventor, author, filmmaker and futurist, Ray Kurzweil. He tells us what science and technology have in store over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
Datum: 05.08.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 17.7 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn talks with columnist and author David Ewing Duncan about what happens and who suffers when a prestigious journal publishes flawed science.
Datum: 05.08.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 6.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about CO2 with President and CEO, Glenn Kelly,how the human body manages CO2, and how his cleantech company, CO2 Solutions, copies it.
Datum: 05.08.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 7.6 MB
Greg Wilkins, CTO of Webtide, the main developers of Jetty, discusses the ins and outs of so-called "long polling" or "server push" techniques and the technologies and projects that make them practical. Greg talks about the CometD project, websockets, and some of the problems th...
Datum: 03.08.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 22.3 MB
Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Architect of Bing Maps, discusses its structure and "information ecology," of content, users, and apps. By extracting the semantic content of 2D images and mapping them in 3D, Bing Maps continually improves a rich infrastructure of surface data about the world on whi...
Datum: 31.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 9.6 MB
Lili Cheng and her team at Microsoft's Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Lab take the challenge of making social networking more engaging while increasing productivity. Cheng, in this recording from the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (May, 2010), demonstrates the various social networking tools ...
Datum: 30.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 5.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Cornell professor and author, Spencer Wells, discussing the contents of his new book 'Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization' where he voices misgivings about the breakthrough to farming 10,000 years ago, spurred by climate change.
Datum: 29.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 12.7 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Axial Biotech President, John Climaco, about a new test for pre-determining the severity of the back condition scoliosis, which mostly affects young girls.
Datum: 29.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 11 MB
Brian Aker, an open-source hacker and former Director of Architecture at MySQL AB, gives an analysis of No-SQL -- a class of non-relational data stores. Adding humor and a blunt comparison of the pros and cons of these data stores, he explains the basics of the No-SQL system and its applications.
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Datum: 28.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 12.1 MB
Describing the past, present and future of his business, Enhanced Editions, Peter Collingridge uses this platform to explain deeper issues as well: ebooks as a whole, publishing, and technology's effect on reading. He also discusses the specifics of his business and market.
Datum: 27.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 12.6 MB
In this series of short talks from the Gov 2.0 Summit, four pioneers of open geospatial data share their experiences in encouraging collaboration through data sharing. From Virtual Alabama to "Beer for Data" in Afghanistan, it's an eye-opening look at the doors which can be unlocked ...
Datum: 21.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 13.1 MB
Tim O'Reilly describes the state of the internet operating system. As more services and data move from computers onto the internet, there are new opportunities to create value as well as new risks for lock-in. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook: which has the right strategy?
Datum: 20.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 11.4 MB
Beginning with a short history of his understanding the Internet, Jon Udell of Microsoft, and host of the Conversations Network's Interviews with Innovators, discusses the history of the Internet as a whole. This history is also framed within the context of context, and how cyberspace is shapin...
Datum: 19.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 24.2 MB
Mark Callaghan of Facebook describes some of the uses Facebook makes of MySQL and the challenges Facebook's database team has in their large-scale deployment of MySQL. Facebook has thousands of MySQL database servers, which gives them unique insights and challenges.
Datum: 16.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 9.8 MB
Creating and growing a community is an art, but there are known best practices. Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, lists some of the best ways to build a community, the mechanics of making a community work, and the difference between an evangelist and a community manager.
Datum: 14.07.2010 04:00 •
Größe: 21.8 MB
Beginning the lecture with a description of Drizzle, Brian Aker, an open-source hacker and former Director of Architecture at MySQL AB, continues on to fully discuss the merits of this open source database management system (DBMS). Also central to this lecture are the three key success points of Dri...
Datum: 13.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 9.4 MB
Journalists tell stories. In this Where 2.0 presentation, Matthew Ericson talks about how the New York Time's team of designers, cartographers, and developers worked as journalists to create interactive maps and charts that told stories about the 2008 presidential election.
Datum: 09.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 7.3 MB
Do you set up feeds and alerts, and jigger social sites as headline aggregators? How do you get news on your favorite topics and find out about things you didn't know you wanted to know? And how do you stay informed without showing your hand? Mark Drummond, CEO of Wowd, offers 'a discovery...
Datum: 07.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 4.3 MB
Publishing is the main topic at hand in this lecture by Arianna Huffington, with subjects running from her online news source, the Huffington Post, to the emergence of writing as the new form of entertainment. Snippets of personal history, stories and ideas are also featured in this presentation, su...
Datum: 05.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 8.7 MB
Software is reorganizing the world, according to Joe Vito in this presentation from the 2010 Kynetx Impact Conference on how technology and apps are changing the relationship between businesses and consumers. With a bit of social commentary and a few anecdotes, he explains how companies should keep ...
Datum: 02.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 21.8 MB
Eric Ries talks about the elements that allow startups to succeed, what causes them to fail, and how entrepreneurial management can effect the outcome. The idea of pivot, reasons why lean startups are better at it, and how pivot can be built upon by startup managers are discussed briefly, but in dep...
Datum: 01.07.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 5 MB
Sebastian Stadil discusses how Scalr assists businesses in expanding their use of cloud computing. In addition to his appearance at Gluecon he reviews both technological and economic aspects of what business have to consider. He reviews some of the more difficult aspects of cloud computing and detai...
Datum: 28.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 18.7 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and professor, Dan Simons, about his new book, The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, where he and his partner, Christopher Chabris, explore the limits of human perception.
Datum: 24.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 15.8 MB
The future is at hand in this lecture by Mark Callaghan, the leader of Facebook's MySQL engineering team. He discusses MySQL, the host company of the conference, and considers future trends, forks, and ideas.
Datum: 23.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 3.8 MB
Sam Lightstone, author of the the book, Making it Big in Software, discusses the process of moving up from initial education through eventual job success. He talks about the importance of the mentoring process for apprentice software engineers, as well as how crucial innovation is to success.
Datum: 16.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 22.1 MB
John Podesta and James Fallows discuss Gov 2.0 communication challenges for presidential candidates and administrations, and how messaging strategies and tactics affect international perceptions of America.
Datum: 14.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 12.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the science behind the decision making process, with noted author, Dr. Sheena Iyengar, from the pages of her new book, The Art of Choosing.
Datum: 10.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 10.4 MB
In this interview from the 2009 Web 2.0 conference, Tim O'Reilly talks with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. Berners-Lee talks about his expectations for the Web when he created it, his thoughts on how it has changed with growth and ...
Datum: 09.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 16.2 MB
Brad Jupp, a veteran teacher, administrator and union leader in the Denver school system, discusses how the Department of Education means to use data collection to propel schools from 'school district 1.0' to 'school district 1.2'.
Datum: 04.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
On this week's Tech Nation the focus is on the recent International Biotech Conference, BIO 2010 from Chicago. We'll hear from Bob Klein, the BioHumanitarian of the Year, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who was named BioGovernor of the Year, Wisconsin Governor Jim Boyle, and BIO&#...
Datum: 03.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 23.5 MB
Adam Denton discusses his participation in the Race Across America, one of the most respected and longest running annual endurance events holding legendary stature the world over. Riding as part of the Sharp4Prostate team, Adam will use a number of technologies to assist in the race. He talks with P...
Datum: 01.06.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 18.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and Nobel Laureate, Dr. Burton Richter, about the science behind the earths rapid warming.
Datum: 27.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 15.4 MB
According to Tim O'Reilly, of O'Reilly Media, the Internet is full of information and is capable of using that information to make connections and trends. The real question, as Tim points out, is whether this information will be open sourced, or owned by companies such as Google and Micros...
Datum: 25.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 16.4 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn chats with anthropologist, Brian Fagan, about his research into Neaderthals and how they relate to modern humans, from the pages of his new book, Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans.
Datum: 20.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 13.4 MB
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, tells us why she thinks that a climate of economic gloom such as the current one is the best time to start your own business, why simplifying a design and taking things away from it adds more power, and what her most recent New York based Web 2.0 venture, named ...
Datum: 18.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 13.5 MB
Clay Johnson, Director of Sunlight Labs, reviews several entries from the 'Apps for America II' development contest which make exclusive use of the Data.gov knowledgebase.
Datum: 16.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 4.6 MB
Gilad Lotan is a world citizen who contributes to Global Voices Online and explores means to visualize the ebb and flow of conversations and memes online. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he explains why and how he surveys the Hebrew blogosphere for readers of English, and discusses his work...
Datum: 14.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 19.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with author, Susan Krieger, about her new book, Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side, where she introduces readers to the world of true human-animal interaction.
Datum: 13.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 13.1 MB
In this Gov 2.0 presentation Clay Shirky explains why an L.A. Times wikitorial effort went wrong and compares it with the continuing success of Apps For Democracy.
Datum: 12.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 5.4 MB
Anthony Fassero talks about Wild Style City, a whimsical demo of 3D street-level imaging technology. As CEO of earthmine, Fassero focuses on developing accurate digital representation of environments which facilitate better human interaction. In this Where 2.0 Conference presentation, Fassero discus...
Datum: 11.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 3 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn visits with Mark Sherman, CEO of ZoomAtlas, and Wiki inventor, Ward Cunningham, to talk about the latest social networking trend, geo-social networking.
Datum: 06.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 15.6 MB
Social networking expert Jesse Stay joins Phil and Scott to discuss recent changes and issues with Facebook and other networking sites. In addition to reviewing recent Facebook announcements, he also talks about data retrieval, as well as related privacy issues. He also assesses how political candid...
Datum: 04.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 30.4 MB
Linda Stone coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" and has long been concerned about the psychological effects of computers and networked information systems. Now she's exploring the physiological effects too. In this conversation with Jon Udell, she explains what "emai...
Datum: 01.05.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 26.6 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn celebrates the 10th birthday of decoding the human genome with author and journalist, David Ewing Duncan.
Datum: 30.04.2010 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn visits with author, George Prochnik, to talk about his new book, In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, where he examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.
Datum: 30.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 17.6 MB
The term "Web 2.0" refers to the changes in the structure and composition of the Internet as it moves toward greater accessibility and participation. In this speech to the Web 2.0 conference, danah boyd, who has spent her professional career researching the Web's development, gives h...
Datum: 27.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 9.3 MB
The group discusses tablet-style computers, including the Entourage eDGe, comparing them with the newly released iPad. They also review various apps, as well as the App Store concept. In addition, they assess some recent JavaScript changes and issues.
Datum: 27.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 22 MB
Joel and Jeff sit down with our new community coordinator, Robert Cartaino, to discuss the future of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange 2.0.
Datum: 26.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 29.1 MB
Greg Skibiski explains CitySense, a mobile app for the Blackberry and the iPhone that predicts movement over time by mapping observed behavioral similarities rather than just geography. In this presentation from the Where 2.0 Conference, Skibiski discusses how location data using SMS from carriers a...
Datum: 24.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 6.6 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews author and Director of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, John Hagel, about his new book, The Power of Pull, which the Harvard Business Review calls an exhilarating read as the authors sublimely reinvent the world of enterprise.
Datum: 22.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 16.8 MB
Kevlin Henney, editor/author of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, discusses the book and the programming process. He talks about how he compiled the essays for the book and lists some of the items he found most surprising and thought provoking. He also assesses the issues related to programmer...
Datum: 20.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 24 MB
Herbert Van de Sompel is a digital librarian who wonders why the web has no memory, and wants to do something about that. In this conversation he tells host Jon Udell about the Memento project, a proposed protocol that browsers can use to scroll through historical versions of web resources.
Datum: 19.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 20.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author, Ted Conover, about the importance of roads in the evolution of human history, from the ancient Romans and Incas to modern day Israel and Palestine.
Datum: 15.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 19.5 MB
Join Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer for Microsoft, as he talks about the future of IT in government. With continued advances in microprocessing and radio connectivity over the next five to ten years, IT will soon be capable of providing novel solutions to government problems. From...
Datum: 14.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 10.9 MB
The 2009 presidential election was the most closely monitored election in US history, thanks in part to the efforts of tech entrepreneurs like David Troy. Troy speaks at the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference about how he and his teams were able to create the Twitter Vote Report, which allowed...
Datum: 12.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
If you were pestered with a dozen or more phone calls a day from people in your locality asking what was on your menu for the day, or inquiring about the delivery of their order, and you were definitely not the local Thai Kitchen but just an innocent guy or gal, what would you do? Well, you'd l...
Datum: 11.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 8 MB
PowerPivot, a new add-in for Excel, can absorb and analyze vast quantities of data. And it can ingest that data from sources that support that Atom-based OData protocol. John Hancock, who led the charge to add support for data feeds to PowerPivot, tells host Jon Udell how it works, why it supports O...
Datum: 10.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 12.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan talk personalized medicine with Wired magazine Executive Editor, Thomas Goetz.
Datum: 08.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 9.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with author and science journalist, Shankar Vedantam about his new book, The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives, touching on how the brain functions automatically during times of heightened emotion.
Datum: 07.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 14.5 MB
In this presentation from eComm 2009, LiMo's Open Source Committee Chairman, David "Lefty" Schlesinger discusses the meaning of governance, and the advantage of LiMo's approach over those of Google and Apple for their Android and iPhone application development platforms, before o...
Datum: 05.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 10.4 MB
Developing software solutions for the defence and intelligence industries is not normally open to public discussion. In this exciting talk Lena Trudeau interviews experts from Homeland Security, the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on how their org...
Datum: 03.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 15.6 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn talks with author, David Shenk, about his book, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong, reviewed by the New York Times Book Review as 'a deeply interesting and important book.'
Datum: 02.04.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 13.6 MB
Join Alex "Sandy" Pentland as he talks about the indoor spaces of the city and the answers that can be gleaned from human movements within the interiors of buildings. From the movement of bees to the layout of boardroom locations, software can be used to predict and prevent communication f...
Datum: 31.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 12.1 MB
In this episode Scott Rosenberg discusses two of his books. Say Everything (2009) is a history of blogging, and Dreaming in Code (2006) is an inside account of the Chandler project. He also talks about his latest project, MediaBugs, a Knight Foundation-funded effort to crowd-source the correction of...
Datum: 27.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 21.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Duke University professor, Henry Petroski, about his new book, The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems, where he explores science and engineering and how they must work together to address our world's most pressing issues.
Datum: 25.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 18.8 MB
Joel and Jeff sit down with Anton Geraschenko of Math Overflow to discuss the unique qualities of a community of expert mathematicians, how to capture a sphere in a knot, and the importance of off-site backups.
Datum: 24.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 25.5 MB
Broadband in the USA is considered to be anything above 200 kb/sec. In Japan and South Korea broadband is defined as 100 mb/sec and above. This Ecomm presentation by Benjamin Joffe discusses striking differences between the Western world's current technological capability and Asia's. From ...
Datum: 22.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 11.1 MB
Join Ellen Millar as she talks with Vivek Kundra, the 'rockstar of government data', about the data transparency initiatives currently occurring within the Federal Government. From data.gov to booking a campsite online, Kundra is the mastermind behind much of the more promising initiatives...
Datum: 20.03.2010 05:00 •
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Dr. Moria Gunn tracks down Intelligence and Homeland Security correspondent, Shane Harris, to review information technology and surveillance in America today.
Datum: 18.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 17.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn discusses food safety with Mike Doyle, Director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia. They dive into the challenge, prefaced by the statistic that 15% of our food is imported from other countries.
Datum: 18.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 5.8 MB
"The opportunity to innovate starts with doing something that hasn't been done yet", Chris Brogan presses in this lively, sardonic speech about ten minutes in length, in which the blogger and President of New Marketing Labs, a social media agency, advises businesses and individuals al...
Datum: 17.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 5.5 MB
Jonathan Ellis discusses Cassandra, an open source distributed database system, used by Facebook and other sites. An Apache Software Foundation top-level project, it is designed to handle very large data sets spread out across commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no sing...
Datum: 16.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 21.2 MB
Digital broadcasting networks are being developed worldwide to deliver high-bandwidth, real-time content to and from mobile platforms. Francois Lefebvre describes the tension between telco- and broadcast-driven services; telcos tend to promote subscription based services while broadcasters try to ex...
Datum: 15.03.2010 05:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
Digg.com, one of the most successful social media websites, has over 40 million users, amounting to about 20,000 submissions a day, but young CEO Jay Adelson wants more. In this candid conversation with Brady Forrest "serial entrepreneurs" Adelson and his Partner Kevin Rose share with us w...
Datum: 14.03.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 9.7 MB
Join best-selling author Steven Berlin Johnson as he discusses the changing face of online journalism, one in which citizen journalists and bloggers are news gatherers and information curators. Both journalists and techies alike are providing new ways to share and consume content, and creating rich ...
Datum: 13.03.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 12.2 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss the pursuit of venture capital, why Joel is ending his blog, and the hidden power of Google's web spider.
Datum: 12.03.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 28.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Peter Hessler, to discuss the new car culture that has emerged in China, as 90 million new drivers take to the streets each day.
Datum: 11.03.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 13 MB
Author David Siegel discusses his book Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business, in which he reviews the concepts for a future version of the web. He defines the idea of the semantic web and how Pull is a model for it. Siegel reviews how businesses in the future can take advant...
Datum: 09.03.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 28.8 MB
The Government is no longer a secluded center of power that rules the citizenry. Government agencies now try to actively connect with the public and interact with them. Allan Holmes, Executive Editor at Government Executive, talks about how some of the well-made government websites are not only succ...
Datum: 08.03.2010 06:00 •
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Dr. Moria Gunn tracks down author and unlikely environmentalist, Brenda Peterson, who takes her through her book of memoirs, I Want To Be Left Behind.
Datum: 05.03.2010 06:00 •
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Dr. Moria Gunn learns about the uses for chemical genomics from Dr. Greg Roth, Director of Medicinal Chemistry from the Burnham Institute for Medical Research. She then sits down with GeoVax Labs Senior VP, Dr. Harriet Robinson, where they study HIV and AIDS vaccines.
Datum: 04.03.2010 06:00 •
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Henri Asseily, CTO of Telnic discusses the company's work as the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for .tel, a new sponsored Top Level Domain awarded on May 30th 2006 by ICANN. He reviews the background of .tel's establishment, the company's business model, and technical d...
Datum: 03.03.2010 06:00 •
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Mapping space and the heavens is harder than anything found on Earth. Chris Spurgeon introduces us to the measurement tools for tracking the moving objects as they march across the sky. From major celestial objects as close as our Moon to the far out reaches of Jupiter and beyond. The science of spa...
Datum: 02.03.2010 06:00 •
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Networks of people, information, things, and energy are coming together in ways that redefine the practice of architecture. Duncan Wilson, an engineer with the global consulting firm Arup, joins host Jon Udell to discuss a variety of projects that illustrate the new synthesis.
Datum: 26.02.2010 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn analyzes the changing face of corporate culture with Grant McCraken, author of Chief Culture Officer, where he combines a mastery of marketing, culture, anthropology, and modern business practice.
Datum: 25.02.2010 06:00 •
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Thomas Petersen discusses his experience in designing for startups and established companies. In addition to discussing the problem with the ever increasing amount of data available on the Internet, he also reviews designing principles, listing steps of good practice.
Datum: 23.02.2010 06:00 •
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How is open-source closed? Andreas Constantinou talks about the relative openness of the "eight centers of gravity" in the mobile industry, and says it's not the licensing, which concerns source control, but the governance, which concerns the product, that developers must watch out fo...
Datum: 22.02.2010 06:00 •
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Flat World Knowledge is pioneering a new way to create and distribute textbooks. The model combines open licensing, online access, and print-on-demand. In this week's episode, host Jon Udell discusses the model with co-founder Eric Frank and CTO Jon Williams.
Datum: 20.02.2010 06:00 •
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Joel sits down with the Stack Exchange team, who are working on the hosted version of Stack Overflow.
Datum: 19.02.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 26.6 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author and CEO, Dan Roam, to learn how he is teaching people to solve complex problems using simple pictures, from the pages of his new book, Unfolding the Napkin, the Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures.
Datum: 18.02.2010 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Executive Vice President, Thomas Nagy about the positive environmental impacts which occur when manufactures choose to engineer more natural products.
Datum: 18.02.2010 06:00 •
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What makes an application platform a lasting success? Vint Cerf, the co-inventor of TCP/IP, Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, and Tim Sparapani, Facebook' Director of Public Policy, talk about their experience building international, highly adopted platforms in a discussion moderated by J...
Datum: 16.02.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 15.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author, Jeremy Rifkin, about his research on economics, technology, progress and sustainability, published in his new book, The Empathic Civilization - The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis.
Datum: 11.02.2010 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the promise and peril of Email (both social and technical), Google Buzz, and the value of training material.
Datum: 10.02.2010 06:00 •
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As the release of smart phones and tablet PCs fill technology reports Brian Roberts reminds us that cable TV is still a part of most people's lifestyle. Talking about the development of On Demand television and an impending application store for your TV, the idea of technological convergence be...
Datum: 08.02.2010 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff sit down with Mac developer Daniel Jalkut to discuss Mac development and the new iPad.
Datum: 05.02.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 30.3 MB
Recorded the day after Apple's announced the iPad, the group discusses the new device, based on their initial impressions. They applaud certain visual and usage aspects, but also talk about why they were disappointed with it. They also assess the iPad's value as a book reader, particularly...
Datum: 03.02.2010 06:00 •
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Michael Calabrese argues that the FCC's apportioning of the airwave spectrum gives a false impression of scarcity. The government's spectrum apportioning doesn't take into account the capabilities and accuracy of today's digital radio equipment, carving unnecessarily wide detours...
Datum: 02.02.2010 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the value of Deep Blue, the Five Whys process, and whether programmers should blog.
Datum: 01.02.2010 06:00 •
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Sal Khan's response to the crisis in education is Khanacademy.org, a site that lists a vast and growing collection of his YouTube video lessons in math, physics, chemistry, biology, and economics. In this conversation he discusses his teaching philosophy and methods with host Jon Udell, and exp...
Datum: 29.01.2010 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with UC Berkeley Psychology Professor, Dacher Keltner and the editor of Greater Good magazine, Jason Marsh, about how humans are naturally programmed to be good and what separates those who are from those who are not.
Datum: 28.01.2010 06:00 •
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Congressman John Culberson R-TX is TWL - Tweeting While Legislating. Espousing the power of the "fun" of "town meetings and tea parties," he's committed to bringing the real-time, blow-by-blow of Congressional deliberations to his subscribers. This moderated speech and discu...
Datum: 27.01.2010 06:00 •
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Ricky Yuen of Qualcomm catalogs some of the OEM sensors currently or soon available in cell phones. He explains how they are being used, from enabling new UI such as in the Nintendo Wii, to improved navigation. He argues that they can be employed separately and together to improve handset applicatio...
Datum: 25.01.2010 06:00 •
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Dr.Moira Gunn catches up with internet pioneer and author, Jaron Lanier to discuss his new book, You Are Not a Gadget...a Manifesto, where he discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design.
Datum: 21.01.2010 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss GitHub, the value of formal code documentation, and how to decide what features belong in the next version of your software.
Datum: 20.01.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 30.6 MB
In this audio interview from the 2009 Web 2.0 Expo in New York, O'Reilly Media founder and tech guru Tim O'Reilly speaks with Deputy CTO of the United States and Director of the Open Government Initiative Beth Noveck. The two discuss successes, challenges and a culture shift that is happen...
Datum: 19.01.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 18 MB
Brad Templeton, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks about privacy issues, his company's wiretapping suit against AT&T, the history of anti-surveillance laws and judicial structure in the US, what it knows about current surveillance, the state of the suit today, and why privacy issu...
Datum: 18.01.2010 06:00 •
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of PLATO, the pioneering educational courseware system that was also, for certain lucky individuals at certain universities, a preview of an online culture -- one that many others would not encounter for decades to come. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, ...
Datum: 15.01.2010 06:00 •
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Everyone uses Linux: if they use Google, trade on-line, or use ATMs. Linux is the most ubiquitous OS in everything from cell phones to TVs, precisely because, Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation argues, it is free. As convergence between connectivity and device happens, network carriers and device-ma...
Datum: 14.01.2010 06:00 •
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Tech journalist Mitch Ratcliffe discusses the future of books, reading, and publishing. He talks about how Booksahead.com is a platform to discuss authors and publishing, as well as news about the industry. Calling from the 2010 CES he also reviews new mobile devices, including E-Book readers and ta...
Datum: 12.01.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 20.8 MB
At the 2009 eComm, Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer of Frog Design, talks about a new phase in design exemplified by the likes of Wii and the Android open OS. We currently live in two worlds, the real and the virtual, mediated by 'white boxes' less and less limited by functional distin...
Datum: 11.01.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 18.4 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss open sourcing Markdown, the necessity of barriers on the open internet, and the importance of design in the software process.
Datum: 09.01.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 35 MB
For many years, Greg Wilson has taught a course called Software Carpentry: to scientists, to university students, and to working programmers. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he discusses the digital and mental tools in the software carpenter's kit, and he reflects on how the course mi...
Datum: 08.01.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 24.5 MB
The FCC is scheduled to deliver a national broadband strategy to Congress in February 2010. Scott Mace and attorney Jim Baller discuss the FCC strategy, early-round stimulus funding, the role of municipalities, and success stories such as Bristol, Virginia's fiber-to-the-home service.
Datum: 07.01.2010 06:00 •
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Although the definition of cloud computing can seem somewhat cloudy, it's a good thing to understand for business. Canonical's Simon Wardley argues with humor that "the cloud" represents a natural marketing-cycle progression for IT; from innovation, to product, to service utility...
Datum: 05.01.2010 06:00 •
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In his densely informative presentation, Cullen Jennings, Cisco's Distinguished Engineer talks about Network Address Translations (NATs), how they work, what's going on and more importantly, why we should care. Jennings looks at if and when we're really going to run out of IP addresse...
Datum: 04.01.2010 06:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down to talk science with writer, James Schwartz about his new book,In Pursuit of the Game:From Darwin to DNA,digging into the world of science and the personalities behind it. From Darwin's belief in pangenesis to explain the inheritance of physical variations to Hermann M...
Datum: 01.01.2010 06:00 •
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Doug Day is the author of an open source library for reading and writing iCalendar files. He has also created an online validator for the venerable -- but still underutilized -- calendar format. In this conversation, Doug Day and host Jon Udell discuss why and how the validator can help bootstrap a ...
Datum: 01.01.2010 06:00 •
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Tony Hey, head of Microsoft External Research, talks about how open access and open tools help build bridges between academia, industry and government to advance computer science, education and scientific research. Modern science increasingly relies on computation to collect, process, and analyze co...
Datum: 31.12.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
The Barack Obama administration ushered in a new model of cooperation between citizens and their government. In this audio interview from the Gov 2.0 Summit, O'Reilly Media founder, Tim O'Reilly, speaks with America's first Federal Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, about using ...
Datum: 29.12.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 10 MB
With the arrival of the Obama administration, a new attitude of openness and transparency of the Internet and other technologies is being espoused. In an overview of this new change of position, Maura Corbett outlines the government's desire to establish a non-discrimination policy and thus kee...
Datum: 28.12.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 14.6 MB
Joel and Jeff sit down with the developers of LitmusApp and DocType to discuss ASCII vs. pixels, the power of Amazon EC2, and the unglamorous but critically important topic of backup.
Datum: 23.12.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 30.7 MB
In this end-of-year discussion, Jesse Stay and Tyler Whitaker discuss a number of tech topics with Phil and Scott. In addition, to reviewing some recent books and reviewing some computer geek Christmas lists, they also talk about some of the recent software developments surrounding Twitter and Faceb...
Datum: 22.12.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 24 MB
Every year, the United States government spends a huge amount of money on its web projects. At somewhere on the order of tens of millions of dollars per project, the majority of this money goes to few select software vendors. It would be nice, though, if some of it were to come to the open source co...
Datum: 21.12.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 4.9 MB
Howard Eglowstein, a principal engineer with Climate Energy, LLC -- and former BYTE colleague of host Jon Udell -- has always worked at the intersection of hardware and software hacking. In this conversation he discusses freewatt, a micro-CHP (combined heat and power) system. He also reflects on the...
Datum: 18.12.2009 06:00 •
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Dr. Moria Gunn talks with author, Graeme Gibson about his new book, The Bedside Book of Beasts, in a fascinating discussion on survival, mortality and natures chain of life through the lives of beasts, both real and mythical.
Datum: 17.12.2009 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss how to (accidentally) destroy your software business, Google's new DNS and page speed rankings, and why the most productive employees aren't paid 10 times as much.
Datum: 16.12.2009 06:00 •
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You've heard about the real-time communication and collaboration tool Google Wave, but did you know that wave is actually a technology, not a product? In this audio lecture from the Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) 2009, David Wang, one of the lead architects of Google Wave, tells us ...
Datum: 14.12.2009 06:00 •
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Randy Julian founded Indigo BioSystems in order to bring a modern style of information management -- flexible schemas, linked data -- to the business of drug discovery. In this conversation he explains to host Jon Udell that it's not enough to represent experimental data in standard ways. We al...
Datum: 12.12.2009 06:00 •
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Is the web entering a dark time of struggle and strife? Tim O'Reilly reflects on the astonishing power of the early internet as an open platform, and worries that escalating competition between large companies may drive it towards a battle ground of locked down services and proprietary data. T...
Datum: 11.12.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 11 MB
On this weeks TechNation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the Purdue University Science Journalism Laureates Program Panel about the reality of science journalism in the age of Twitter
Datum: 10.12.2009 06:00 •
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David Kaneda discusses JQTouch, a jQuery plugin for mobile web development, optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. He reviews the background of the project as well as why he chose this way to create the plugin. He also talks about his work with the WebKit browsing engine.
Datum: 08.12.2009 06:00 •
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What's it like to be a woman in an open source project that's 99% men? What's it like to be a woman in a project that's 75% women? Kirrily Robert has worked on both kinds of projects. She talks about the differences and what one can learn from majority-female open source communit...
Datum: 07.12.2009 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the Stack Overflow Careers philosophy, online community growth patterns, and how to tell if you're Sid Meier or not.
Datum: 03.12.2009 06:00 •
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Dr.Moira Gunn catches up with author, James Workman to talk about his book, Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushman Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought and what many feel has become the primary resource battleground of the twenty-first century: the supply of water.
Datum: 02.12.2009 06:00 •
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According to science fiction author Karl Schroeder, it is sometimes possible to get things done more efficiently by relinquishing the traditional methods of control. Open source, democracy, government 2.0, and the invisible hand of the free market are mechanisms that demonstrate of the success of th...
Datum: 01.12.2009 06:00 •
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Google Wave is early in its introduction and testing phase. In this presentation from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Stephanie Hannon, along with Lars Rasmussen, leads this highly interactive demo and Q&A session, giving attendees a look at Wave's features, profile, and direct...
Datum: 30.11.2009 06:00 •
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Dr.Moira Gunn speaks with author and columnist, David Ewing Duncan and gets the scientific scoop on what he calls, the evolution of overconfidence.
Datum: 26.11.2009 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with New Yorker Magazine columnist, Ken Auletta about his views on technology and pop culture in his book, Googled:The End of the World as We Know It.
Datum: 25.11.2009 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff sit down with sysadmin extraordinaire Tom Limoncelli of Everything Sysadmin to discuss IPV6, dumb things for System Administrators to check, and the sysadmin community as reflected in Server Fault.
Datum: 24.11.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 32.1 MB
With new commons-based approaches to radio spectrum regulation like Wi-Fi, UltraWideBand and TV White Spaces battling against the interests of broadcasters and the mobile phone industry, what is likely to occur over the next two to five years and beyond? At the 2009 Emerging Communications Conferenc...
Datum: 23.11.2009 06:00 •
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In this conversation with Martin Hepp, host Jon Udell explores GoodRelations, the e-commerce ontology that was also discussed in an earlier interview with Kingsley Idehen. When annotated using GoodRelations, pages describing products and services can be found and compared far more effectively than i...
Datum: 20.11.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 28.8 MB
In The Laws of Disruption, Larry Downes, author of the best-selling Unleashing the Killer App, provides an invaluable guide for these confusing times, exploring nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life.
Datum: 19.11.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 16.3 MB
Joel and Jeff sit down with Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates backstage at the Business of Software 2009 conference.
Datum: 18.11.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 29.5 MB
The Obama administration is trying to create a new model where governmental openness is the norm, and collaboration between the open source community and the federal government may be a key to its success. Gunnar Hellekson says that by encouraging the government to adopt open source practices, the o...
Datum: 17.11.2009 06:00 •
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What are the key pieces policy makers must understand about the intersection of technology trends and digital economics to create broadband policies that make sense? What are the best roles of regulators, users, and industry in creating a rich environment for the powerful convergence of media and c...
Datum: 16.11.2009 06:00 •
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Gavin Bell's new book, Building Social Web Applications, synthesizes a wealth of practical knowledge gleaned from his own long career as a web developer and from interviews with fellow practitioners. In this conversation he reviews the key principles and patterns that define what we today call ...
Datum: 13.11.2009 06:00 •
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In this Where 2.0 talk Ted Morgan, co-founder of Skyhook Wireless, has three things to say about the explosion of location based applications: the breadth of apps now available is excitingly diverse (and he has examples to prove it), fascinating usage patterns are emerging (and he has the data and a...
Datum: 12.11.2009 06:00 •
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Communications coach Carmine Gallo discusses his new book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, in which he shows how people can improve their public speaking skills. He first presents an overview on why he chose Steve Jobs as a subject and continues with specific pointers and methods that anyone...
Datum: 10.11.2009 06:00 •
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Seven time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong and serial entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt have at least one thing in common: they both believe in social connections in social media. Rosenblatt interviews Armstrong at the 2008 O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference about how they con...
Datum: 09.11.2009 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the meaning of "professionalism" online, the divide between ad-subsidized and pay business models, and the five things everyone should hate about their favorite programming language.
Datum: 06.11.2009 06:00 •
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Peter Maass speaks with Moira about his book on the global state of oil, and how technology plays a role. Oil is central to our world, but what role does it play in violent conflicts and the divide between rich and poor?
Datum: 05.11.2009 06:00 •
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There is big money to be made in the telecommunications industry by optimizing how businesses connect, interact and complete transactions with their customers. In his keynote address at the Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) 2009, industry futurist Martin Geddes shares his thoughts on how a...
Datum: 04.11.2009 06:00 •
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Ben and Dion join Scott and Phil to discuss their move from Mozilla to Palm. They review how Palm uses web technologies to build Palm Pre apps. They also assess developer programs and talk about Palm's to present examples of good ones.
Datum: 03.11.2009 06:00 •
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The web - vast, open, participatory, independent - is an unprecedented human construction. But could forces already be at work to rob it of its very essence? In this presentation from the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention Mark Surman discusses how this marvelous, open, self-governing resour...
Datum: 02.11.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
Po Bronson talks with Moira about what science has learned about parenting. Co-author of NutureShock, which asserts that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring because key twists in the science have been overlooked.
Datum: 31.10.2009 05:00 •
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Clipperz is an online password manager that knows nothing about you or your data, and transmits no secrets over the wire. How? In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Clipperz co-founder Marco Barulli explains that recent improvements in JavaScript engines have enabled a new generation of zero-kno...
Datum: 30.10.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff sit down with Jon Skeet, software engineer at Google London, and the first Stack Overflow user to achieve a reputation of 100,000.
Datum: 29.10.2009 05:00 •
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Sramana Mitra believes in the importance of entrepreneurship to the world economy. As a writer and entrepreneur, she assists others in learning how to build an organization. She joins Phil and Scott to discuss her strategies. In addition to presenting her thoughts on entrepreneurship, she also offer...
Datum: 27.10.2009 05:00 •
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There's a revolution in the way doctors and medical researchers share information outside of annual conferences. At Health 2.0, Scott speaks with Lance Hill, whose company, Within3, announced the first year-round forum for a medical society, the 11,000-member American College of Gastroenterolog...
Datum: 26.10.2009 05:00 •
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Perry Evans, CEO of Local Matters, discusses the differences between the daydream of LBS advertising and the reality in this Where 2.0 presentation. If 'more precision is better', then highly targeted geographic advertising that location based services (LBS) and applications allow should m...
Datum: 23.10.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Ray Anderson, the founder and chair of the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet. He discusses his book, "Confessions of a Radical Industrialist", and talks about his personal epiphany around the environmental impact of carpet.
Datum: 22.10.2009 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Peggy Willcocks, a Parkinsons patient and advocate, about The Parkinsons Pipeline Project and helps those who wish to volunteer for scientific studies.
Datum: 22.10.2009 05:00 •
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A collection of clips recorded at the San Francisco DevDays conference including Joel Spolsky, Mark Harrison, Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman and Rory Blythe.
Datum: 21.10.2009 05:00 •
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Google's web scale problems are too large to rely on physical hardware. In this talk from the 2008 Velocity Conference, Sean Quinlan of Google describes their software-based approach to reliably retrieving data that's distributed across millions of machines around the world.
Datum: 20.10.2009 05:00 •
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Everyone knows Google crawls websites - but did you know they also crawl your source code? Google's Open Source Programs manager Chris DiBona provides a quick but insightful look into the state of open source code on the Internet.
Datum: 19.10.2009 05:00 •
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Rob Shanks discusses web based GIS technology and the features available in Arc GIS online. Showcasing the free databases and webkits available within the online community for publishing and sharing data this short talk gives a small preview on the future of GIS within the cloud.
Datum: 16.10.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Kevin Maney about the trade-off we make when we buy products. Are the products hip, cool, or high-quality? Or is cheap and easy more important? This is the subject of his book "Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't".
Datum: 15.10.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss DevDays, the diversity of Stack Exchange sites, the debut of CVs and careers on Stack Overflow, and the viability of WiFi at tech conferences.
Datum: 14.10.2009 05:00 •
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Built for portability, netbooks may represent the first computers conceived from the outset with Linux in mind. Intel's Dirk Hohndel describes the firm's strategic vision for Open Source using the netbook OS Moblin as an example.
Datum: 12.10.2009 05:00 •
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How can you solicit honest feedback from friends and business associates? Rypple co-founder Daniel Debow says that his company's new service is the answer. It's quick, it's easy, and it's anonymous. It's true that online anonymity can often lead to trouble online. But Daniel...
Datum: 09.10.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Greg Papadopoulos, co-author of Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. The book focuses on two topics that are becoming vitally important in the day-to-day work of engineers: eco engineering and intellectual property (IP).
Datum: 08.10.2009 05:00 •
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Eve Maler discusses her work on User-Managed Access (UMA). In addition to discussing the concept of UMA, she gives examples of its use, as well as her work with the User Managed Access Working Group at the Kantara Initiative and how UMA relates to Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM), p...
Datum: 06.10.2009 05:00 •
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Mobile application developers usually groan at having to support yet another operating system, so in this eComm 2009 talk why does Voxmobili's Director of Product Management, Florent Stroppa, applaud the arrival of Android?
Datum: 05.10.2009 05:00 •
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If you're a writer, a musician, or an artist, you can use Creative Commons licenses to share your digital works. But how can scientists license their work for sharing? In this conversation, Victoria Stodden -- a fellow with Science Commons -- explains to host Jon Udell why scientific output is ...
Datum: 03.10.2009 05:00 •
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Moira talks with Gorden Bell and Jim Gemmell about what it means to digitally record everything in our lives. The authors of Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything discuss how new technologies allow average people to record their entire lives.
Datum: 01.10.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Dr. Bill Cheliak, Vice President for Business Development, Neurodyn about how the environment can affect genetics and contribute to disease.
Datum: 01.10.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff sit down with Peter Seibel to discuss his new book Coders At Work, the effect of listening to music while coding, and the future of programming books.
Datum: 30.09.2009 05:00 •
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Microsoft's Eric Lawrence describes Fiddler, his free Web Debugging tool that enables capture, replay, and modification of HTTP and HTTPS traffic from virtually any application.
Datum: 29.09.2009 05:00 •
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In this OSCON presentation Michael Lopp, author of the blog Rands in Repose, takes a trip down memory lane to 1992, and brings a few lessons in software development back to the future. He discusses the well intentioned 'forces of evil' that can make us stray from the path of tight coding, ...
Datum: 28.09.2009 05:00 •
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Much of the web's implicit connectedness is never made explicit because we refer to the same things in many different ways. In this conversation, Metaweb's Stefano Mazzocchi explains to host Jon Udell how Freebase reconciles web namespaces to expose useful connections.
Datum: 25.09.2009 05:00 •
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Moira interviews Kathy Reichs, forensic anthropologist and author of the popular Bones detective series.
Datum: 24.09.2009 05:00 •
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Matt Drance of Bookhouse Software discusses Cocoa, Apple's name for the collection of frameworks, APIs, and accompanying runtimes that make up the development layer of Mac OS X and also used for iPhone Apps. He reviews the process of developing for the iPhone, including some of the mistakes tha...
Datum: 22.09.2009 05:00 •
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There are two distinct ways to develop applications for Apple's iPhone, the top tech gadget of the year, with either web apps or native programs using the iPhone SDK. In this talk from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Christopher Allen of iPhoneWebDev.com encourages developers to co...
Datum: 21.09.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss outsourced DNS, virtual machine "appliances", and programmers as library users versus library writers.
Datum: 17.09.2009 05:00 •
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Moira interviews Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon about their book I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job. In it they have selected and analyzed the ten most troublesome types of people likely to appear in the workplace.
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Datum: 16.09.2009 05:00 •
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Improving performance is impossible without good measurements, especially on a complex platform like the Web. In this presentation from 2008 Velocity Conference, Eric Goldsmith of AOL demonstrates their browser plug-in AOL Pagetest, which gathers and displays data about web requests and page loadin...
Datum: 15.09.2009 05:00 •
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From tracking flu outbreaks to traffic updates a tremendous amount of information available within a city is open to exploitation by savvy citizens. Adapting the decentralized chaotic morass of the Internet to the modern city John Geraci discusses adapting rich data about the city through the open s...
Datum: 14.09.2009 05:00 •
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Inspired by the success of LibriVox, a project in which collaborators record free audiobooks, Hugh McGuire has embarked on a commercial project: BookOven. In this conversation he tells host Jon Udell about how the new venture enables writers, editors, and proofreaders to work on long-form texts that...
Datum: 11.09.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the ethics of Craigslist, the pitfalls of customer-installable software, and caching for anonymous web users.
Datum: 10.09.2009 05:00 •
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Moira interviews Chris Mooney, co-author of Unscientific America, in which he and Sheril Kirshenbaum plead for scientific literacy. The book lays the groundwork for reintegrating science into the public discourse.
Datum: 09.09.2009 05:00 •
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For over 100 years, telecom has been ruled with a monopolist mentality. Russ McGuire, VP of Strategy at Sprint, calls this the Big Bell Dogma and tells how mobile communications break the monopoly and will free us from the past.
Datum: 08.09.2009 05:00 •
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Tim O'Reilly's advice: pay attention to the disruptive forces of Ellen Miller and the Sunlight Foundation. Why? Because, as Executive Director Miller explains in this Web 2.0 Expo keynote, the Sunlight Foundation is using the internet to create greater transparency and openness, and in tur...
Datum: 07.09.2009 05:00 •
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Kingsley Idehen thinks the semantic web should make us masters of our own search indexes. Structured data, in other words, is the new SEO (search engine optimization). In this conversation with host Jon Udell, you'll learn how a web-friendly format called RDFa, along with business-friendly voca...
Datum: 04.09.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Brian Arthur, author of The Nature of Technology. The former Stanford professor discusses his theory of technology's origins and evolution.
Datum: 03.09.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss reverse proxies, the pitfalls of self-support communities, and designing for engagement.
Datum: 02.09.2009 05:00 •
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Imagine a world in which a single runtime application dynamically publishes your content and services to the mobile, desktop and TV screens. In this eComm 2009 presentation Anup Murarka, Director of Technical Marketing for Mobile and Devices at Adobe, tells developers this dream is becoming a realit...
Datum: 01.09.2009 05:00 •
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What's on the O'Reilly Radar this year? In this OSCON keynote Tim O'Reilly, co-founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc., peers into the crystal ball to foretell a future of sensor driven interfaces combining with co-operating cloud databases; the unlikely emergence of Government as...
Datum: 31.08.2009 05:00 •
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BBC Backstage is the umbrella term for an evolving set of feeds and APIs that the BBC has been offering since 2005. Ian Forrester updates Jon Udell on what progress has been made, and what obstacles remain, as the BBC navigates toward its digital future.
Datum: 28.08.2009 05:00 •
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Moira interviews Zack Lynch, co-author of the Neuro Revolution. The book reviews how history has already progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and an information revolution. The Neuro Revolution foretells a fast approaching fourth epoch, one that will radically tra...
Datum: 27.08.2009 05:00 •
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Moira interviews Dr. Eddy Littler, CEO of DomaineX about the process involved in dissecting large, complex molecules.
Datum: 27.08.2009 05:00 •
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Brian Ellin from JanRain and Doug Kaye of the Conversations Network discuss some of the technical issues related to implementing OpenID and other identity systems. Doug first talks about some of the problems he experienced when trying to add OpenID to SpokenWord.org and how he was able to solve issu...
Datum: 25.08.2009 05:00 •
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What would you talk about if you had only 5 minutes? This group of talks from the first Ignite event at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention covers an eclectic range of topics, from hacking the Amazon Kindle to DIY wheelchair hacks to repairing a rigged election.
Datum: 24.08.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks woth John Hagel about the long term trends in technology and the economy. Hagel is Co-chair of Deloitte's Center for the Edge and the lead author of the Shift Index Report 2009: Measuring the Forces of Long-Term Change.
Datum: 20.08.2009 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Belinda Clarke, Life Science Manager of the East of England Development Agency. She discusses the issues of biotech and healthy aging.
Datum: 20.08.2009 05:00 •
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Silona Bonewald discusses the issue of data and how it can be used and shared. Beginning with how it is used or misused by banks, she reviews the problems of transparent vs. accessible data and talks about how defining the terms is likely part of the problem. She also discusses the concepts behind o...
Datum: 18.08.2009 05:00 •
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Jonathan Christensen is Skype's General Manager for Video and Audio. Listen in as he discusses the history of audio compression, the human voice and Skype's new audio codec to be released for free. Achieving higher quality sound at a more efficient rate included partnership with hardware a...
Datum: 17.08.2009 05:00 •
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Silona Bonewald wishes that every government website would offer stable permalinks for all published documents. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, she describes her proposal for making that wish come true.
Datum: 14.08.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about the role that corporations have started to play in every aspect of our lives.
Datum: 13.08.2009 05:00 •
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Moira interviews Dr. Malcome Devine of Performance Plants, a Canadian firm that is tinkering with plants to make them more robust.
Datum: 13.08.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss lessons from a year of building Stack Overflow, the mysteries of COBOL, some YSlow website optimizations, and magic numbers.
Datum: 12.08.2009 05:00 •
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For those who thought Microsoft had become a sleeping giant resting on the laurels of its popular Office franchise, Stephen Elop has news for you. In this frank discussion with Tim O'Reilly, Elop discusses Microsoft's intention to embrace interoperability and apply the results to its busin...
Datum: 11.08.2009 05:00 •
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Is the traditional economic structure of the wireless communications space finally coming to an end? In this talk from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Mark Roettgering, Lead Director of Corporate Strategy at T-Mobile examines the fundamental sources of value creation in the mobile valu...
Datum: 10.08.2009 05:00 •
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HTTPWatch is a commercial add-in for Internet Explorer that provides detailed statistics on HTTP traffic. In this presentation from the 2008 Velocity conference, Simon Perkins of Simtec Limited demos HTTPWatch and outlines its key features, including the ability to see the effect of local caching a...
Datum: 07.08.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Sarah Dunant, the bestselling author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan. Her new novel, Sacred Hearts, takes place in a 16th century Italian convent. The story helps to give a view of the medical science and technology of the day.
Datum: 06.08.2009 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Andrew Balber, Chief Scientific Officer of Aldagen about the concept of banking mature stems cells, as well as LSU professor Dr. Nicholas Goeders about a new approach to treating addictions.
Datum: 06.08.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the disappointment of Google AdWords, the difference in skillset between programmers and testers, and the value of standards groups to working programmers.
Datum: 05.08.2009 05:00 •
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One drawback of most maps is that they only show two dimensions. In this program from Where 2.0, Brandon Martin-Anderson discusses examples of maps which attempt to depict events in three or four dimensions.
Datum: 03.08.2009 05:00 •
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Cathy Marshall is fascinated by how people manage, and avoid managing, their digital stuff. In this conversation with host Jon Udell she discusses her research on the efficacy of Flickr tags for image retrieval, and explains why we're rediscovering the virtues of loss and forgetting.
Datum: 01.08.2009 05:00 •
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Moira talks with Sir Michael Rawlins, the chair of the United Kingdom's National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence. He discusses how Britain makes decisions on how medical treatments are determined for individuals.
Datum: 31.07.2009 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn discusses corn ethanol with Lars Hansen, President & CEO of Novozymes North America. He reviews how corn ethanol can affect the overall price of food.
Datum: 30.07.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the Mythical Man Month problem, keeping communication in check, Windows 7, and web scaling.
Datum: 29.07.2009 05:00 •
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"Code against the eBay and PayPal APIs; make money," is Mark Carges' message to developers. About eight years ago eBay realized that there was a huge business potential in providing an economic opportunity for developers to leverage their API. Today, there are 85,000 developers that c...
Datum: 28.07.2009 05:00 •
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Like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff, the banking, real estate, and other major industries in the U.S. are realizing too late that their inability to take into account changing demographics has caused the economy to suffer. In this program, Ed Fontana shows the need to look ahead and examine proc...
Datum: 27.07.2009 05:00 •
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In this talk from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference, Harald Prokop of Akamai describes the design principles and architecture of the Akamai network and how it enables the Internet to deliver large libraries of HD content and accelerates dynamic transactions.
Datum: 24.07.2009 05:00 •
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Mike Dunn, a veteran technologist in the media industry, recently attended and spoke at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. In this episode he and host Jon Udell review the highlights of the conference and discuss some emerging practical uses of semantic tools and techniques.
Datum: 24.07.2009 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Bruce Jenett, Co-Chair, Global Life Sciences Sector of DLA Piper about his a definition of biotechnology that anyone can understand.
Datum: 23.07.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Stanford Law professor Larry Lessig about trying to make our old laws work with the new technology of the Internet.
Datum: 23.07.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, the most-widely used email encryption software in the world. In his latest effort, the Zfone Project, Phil enables any two individuals to carry our a secure telephone call over the Internet.
Datum: 23.07.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss software updates, the power of APIs and plugins, and leading by example.
Datum: 22.07.2009 05:00 •
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Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer of Mozilla discuss the status of browser development, particularly as it relates to Firefox. They review a number of current open development tools as well as the specifications for HTML 5, particularly as they relate to video. They also talk about Google Chrome, both a...
Datum: 21.07.2009 05:00 •
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Android is the new player in the smartphone segment and the Android Developer Challenge gave its winners cash and exposure from the launch of the platform. In this talk from 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Mary Ann Cotter, founder of one of the top 20 applications, Cooking Capsules, descri...
Datum: 20.07.2009 05:00 •
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There's a new effort to define an XML representation for iCalendar, the venerable standard for exchanging calendar information. In this interview, host Jon Udell talks with the authors of the proposed specification -- Mike Douglass and Steven Lees -- about why it's needed, what kinds of pr...
Datum: 17.07.2009 05:00 •
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Moira Gunn discusses nanotechnology with Dr. Mike Fisher of Bio Nano Consulting and Tony Cass, professor of chemical biology at the Imperial College, London. They review both its reality and its potential.
Datum: 16.07.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with author and scientist James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia Theory. Once controversial, it has reached mainstream acceptance, and he has more predictions now.
Datum: 16.07.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff sit down with Miguel de Icaza of the Mono project to discuss Mono, Silverlight / Moonlight, and the pros and cons of open sourcing your code.
Datum: 15.07.2009 05:00 •
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Michael DeHaan discusses Cobbler, a Linux server that can be used to set up networks quickly. He gives the background of the project and reviews how it is installed and used. He talks about developing software in an open source environment. Michael also discusses where he wants to go with the projec...
Datum: 14.07.2009 05:00 •
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There are many ways to go about consulting, but how do you do it, and how do you do it successfully? Engineer and consultant John Carter says most consulting companies fail because they can not attract the clients who need their services. Failed strategies include calling on their former associates,...
Datum: 14.07.2009 05:00 •
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Luke Hohmann thinks teams should engage more productively and creatively in the product design and development process. His career commitment to agile methods complements his latest professional focus: Innovation Games, originally designed as in-person, goal-directed, serious games. Now, Luke is tr...
Datum: 14.07.2009 05:00 •
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Cloud computing can be a powerful tool in academic research but the costs associated with commercial implementations and the established hardware available at most universities has left a gap in the development of solutions for academic environments. Join Rich Wolski, a Professor of Computer Science...
Datum: 13.07.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor Dara O'Rourke, founder of GoodGuide.com. He tells us what it takes to understand the impact of everything we use, requiring the tracking of the global supply chain.
Datum: 12.07.2009 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Jay Keasling, Professor of Chemical Engineering and BioEngineering at UC Berkeley and first recipient of the Biotech Humanitarian Award. They discuss the growing worldwide challenge of malaria and a completely new approach which may make it manageable.
Datum: 12.07.2009 05:00 •
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Can electronic medical records really help us deliver better care at lower cost? Maybe, says Peter O'Toole, but it'll require plenty of clueful cooperation between software and medical professionals. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he discusses expert systems, knowledge represent...
Datum: 10.07.2009 05:00 •
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In these two interviews, Dr. Moira Gunn reviews the recently concluded International Biotechnology Conference (BIO 2009). She first talks with former Congressman Jim Greenwood, the President of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, sponsor of the conference. She then speaks with Dr. Steve Sherwin...
Datum: 09.07.2009 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn reviews the recently concluded International Biotechnology Conference (BIO 2009) with David Ewing Duncan, chief correspondent of Biotech Nation.
Datum: 09.07.2009 05:00 •
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In the conversation with Tim O'Reilly at the 2008 O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Monty Widenius and Brian Aker discuss the integration of MySQL into Sun Microsystems. Some of the biggest surprises have come from watching the ways that MySQL's open source culture has spread througho...
Datum: 07.07.2009 05:00 •
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Jonathan Taylor's company, Voxeo, was started so that anyone could create applications for the phone. In this short program, Taylor introduces his company's new API, Tropo. With Tropo, developers will not be limited to XML based telephony but will be offered a core API that allows applicat...
Datum: 06.07.2009 05:00 •
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Moira interviews Daniel Goleman about his new book, Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. His book discusses the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all mu...
Datum: 05.07.2009 05:00 •
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Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Tony Coles, President and CEO of Onyx Pharmaceuticals, about the challenges to a company that depends on a single drug for business success.
Datum: 05.07.2009 05:00 •
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User research often catalogs findings and implications, but stops short of generating specific design improvements. Designers increasingly involved with contextual research may find themselves holding onto a trove of raw data but with little awareness of how to turn it into design. Steve Portigal i...
Datum: 05.07.2009 05:00 •
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Moira talks to author David Helvarg about his book, Rescue Warriors: The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes. He tells the story of the Coast Guard and how their missions range from saving fishermen in the icy waters off Alaska to rescuing thousands in the wake of Katrina.
Datum: 02.07.2009 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks to JJ Bienaime, President & CEO of BioMarin Pharmaceuticals about the problem of orphan diseases, diseases not yet under research by pharmaceutical companies because of a lack of financial incentive to market new medications for treatment.
Datum: 02.07.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the value (or lack thereof) of meta-discussion, how much "big iron" popular websites need, and whether code forking is sometimes inevitable.
Datum: 01.07.2009 05:00 •
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Even without deep technical knowledge or a fat Rolodex, you can be a community superhero. In this talk from the 2009 MySQL Conference, Sheeri Cabral, the 2007-2008 MySQL Advocate of the Year, shares some pointers on things anyone can do to help the technology and community of your favorite open sou...
Datum: 30.06.2009 05:00 •
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Paul Hastings, president and CEO of Oncomed Pharmaceuticals, discusses the controversial topic of cancer stem cells, what he calls the root of the tumor. He also talks about how his company is working with other pharmaceutical companies who are helping with Oncomed's biotech work.
Datum: 28.06.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Fresh Air commentator and linguist Geoff Nunberg, who discusses his book The Years of Talking Dangerously and assesses the impact of words in a dynamic, changing world. In the book, he explains why grammar buffs are drawn to sarcasm, and deftly unpacks the telling phrases of our na...
Datum: 28.06.2009 05:00 •
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It's been approximately 6,500 days since Tim Berners-Lee created the first Web page. In such short a time, the Web has achieved far more than could be thought of at the time. What will the next 6,500 days bring us? Noted author, and former editor of the Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly, speculates o...
Datum: 26.06.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler about his book The End of Overeating, in which he discusses what has been invisibly added to the American supply, leaving some of us obese, and many of us, unexpectedly overweight. He tells us the science behind what ha...
Datum: 25.06.2009 05:00 •
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Moira interviews Matt Gardner, President & CEO, BayBIO, the Northern California Life Sciences Organization, about the organization's the new free online Impact 2009 Report about all the biotech companies in California and everything they are working on.
Datum: 25.06.2009 05:00 •
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Moira speaks with Rory Cooper and Oz Osborn about quality of life technology. The Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) who's mission is to transform lives in a large and growing segment of the population, people with reduced...
Datum: 25.06.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff sit down with Damien Katz to discuss non-conventional databases, non-conventional programming languages, and taking on non-conventional programming projects.
Datum: 24.06.2009 05:00 •
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Dave Winer discusses how Twitter and other social networking tools are changing the way that people read and react to the news. He talks about how the new ways to keep track of events have changed over the years and how these new methods are also likely to change. He also reviews his work in Twitter...
Datum: 23.06.2009 05:00 •
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The Open Invention Network is a collaborative enterprise formed to promote Linux, and protect the open source community from the threats of patent assertion and litigation. Keith Bergelt's job as the CEO is to ensure that the edges of this network are not intruded upon, and that the self-regula...
Datum: 22.06.2009 05:00 •
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Ruby on Rails has been around for five years and three major versions, and while many small things have changed, the major principles are still the same. In this talk from the 2009 RailsConf, David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails, lists some of the things that failed to "kill" Ra...
Datum: 20.06.2009 05:00 •
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There's growing awareness of the need to publish data online, and to support programmatic access to that data. In this conversation, host Jon Udell talks with Steven Willmott about how his company, 3Scale, helps businesses create and manage application programming interfaces to their data.
Datum: 19.06.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss HTML encoding, designing "safe by default", whether a question can be too simple, and the art of beta testing.
Datum: 17.06.2009 05:00 •
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As more individuals have an online presence, developers continue to come up with new ways for people to post items. Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan discuss Posterous, a rich microblogging platform. They talk about how the service was developed, the architecture of the process, and the security methods ...
Datum: 16.06.2009 05:00 •
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Voice is the most natural, comfortable form of communication, but most customer interaction is done through text. In this presentation from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Peter Diedrich of Mobivox describes their new voice CRM platform that improves customer satisfaction and retention...
Datum: 15.06.2009 05:00 •
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Alexander Saint-Amand and Thomas A. Desmond describe how their firms use social networking techniques to meet the unique challenges of investment research and online trading. Saint-Amand explores how Gerson Lehrman Group qualifies & engages a global network of experts. Desmond details how TradeK...
Datum: 13.06.2009 05:00 •
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Scott Ruthfield describes Jiffy, a new open source performance measurement tool for measuring true client-side performance of web sites. Ruthfield identifies the components of website performance problems and the decision process that led WhitePages.com to develop their own solution. Jiffy's go...
Datum: 12.06.2009 05:00 •
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In this eComm talk, Alan Quayle talks about the pressures driving operators to open their network and how, whilst not groundbreaking, there is a justifiable business case. His presentation highlights some of the services operators can enable, and make profitable, through opening their network, whils...
Datum: 11.06.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the relationship between speed and skill, iPhone development, and the value of programming fundamentals.
Datum: 10.06.2009 05:00 •
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What happens to your online assets when you die? How can you make sure that your family can gain access to your digital identity? Jeremy Toeman, founder and CEO of Legacy Locker, talks about how the company has developed a way to protect your online assets. He discusses the background of the service...
Datum: 09.06.2009 05:00 •
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If you're looking for a Linux initiative that is truly open source, where you can download the source, contribute without censorship, and drive the project, check out Moblin.org. The Moblin project was conceived in order to drive innovation on the new breed of Internet-enabled mobile devices, t...
Datum: 08.06.2009 05:00 •
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Today there are tools for testing web applications, but they are difficult to use, costly, and poorly integrated with web browsers. In response to these limitations, Vik Chaudhary and Abelardo Gonzalez of Keynote Systems announce their new web testing product, the Keynote Internet Testing Environme...
Datum: 06.06.2009 05:00 •
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As Business Intelligence becomes more and more popular as a way for companies to achieve an advantage, some companies ahead of the curve are adopting open source BI software. Analysts have not been positive in their predictions of open source use, but they may be mistaken. Mark Madsen describes the ...
Datum: 05.06.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff sit down with Jason Calacanis to discuss the business side of software, including Mahalo's "Skee-Ball" economy, when VC funding is appropriate, and whether SEO matters.
Datum: 03.06.2009 05:00 •
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Cloud computing has become the most discussed methods of infrastructure deployment. George Reese, author of Cloud Application Architectures, joins Phil and Scott to discuss the style. In addition to giving an overview, he reviews the specific issues related to it, including storage options, security...
Datum: 02.06.2009 05:00 •
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Anyone who has developed applications for mobile phones knows that dealing with the phone companies takes much longer than writing the software. In this presentation from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Jamie Siminoff announces the launch of GRID.com, a service made to replace the tedi...
Datum: 01.06.2009 05:00 •
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Capitalism and society have developed the way they have over the last several hundred years because of a few outdated assumptions. In this presentation from the Web 2.0 Expo, author Douglas Rushkoff explains how currency and corporations have warped society and how the internet has given us a chanc...
Datum: 30.05.2009 05:00 •
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At PatientsLikeMe.com, people share data about their illnesses, the drugs they're taking, and the effects (and side effects) of their treatments. In this conversation, co-founder Jamie Heywood tells host Jon Udell that selling this data to drug companies is more than a good business. It aims to...
Datum: 29.05.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss killer IDEs, how much interview feedback is appropriate (for both parties), and how to teach young programmers who think they know it all.
Datum: 27.05.2009 05:00 •
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Data centers are becoming more costly and complicated, and that rate is only going to continue increasing. In the presentation from the O'Reilly Velocity conference, Bill Coleman describes the unsustainable path data centers are on and the ways that they can be managed in the future.
Datum: 26.05.2009 05:00 •
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MySQL is not quite ready to run enterprise scale Internet applications, but Mark Callaghan and the MySQL team at Google are working on addressing its shortcomings. In this presentation from the 2009 MySQL Conference, Callaghan describes some of the requirements that Google's scale creates, the...
Datum: 25.05.2009 05:00 •
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In the current web-based data explosion, buyers and sellers of financial data are struggling to stay relevant and ahead of the competition. What data matters any more? What doesn't? How do you know? Where do you look? Keith Ackerman and Eric Christiansen answer these questions during this talk...
Datum: 23.05.2009 05:00 •
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Stamen Design's data visualization projects bring a Tuftean sensibility to the realm of fast-moving realtime online information. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, founder Eric Rodenbeck talks about how his studio creates interactive experiences that enable people to ask, and answer, unf...
Datum: 22.05.2009 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss bespoke software development, URL routing, the God Algorithm, and getting your database under version control.
Datum: 21.05.2009 05:00 •
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Christine Peterson is a founder and Vice-President of Foresight Institute, and focuses effort on educating the public on nanotechnology issues. In this emotionally-charged presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Peterson lays out the potential privacy concerns of using nanotechnol...
Datum: 20.05.2009 05:00 •
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Entrepreneur and evangelist Malcolm Matson traces the evolution of today's captive network access model and describes the nature of an intriguing alternative: the open public local access network. Matson posits a simple, but profound question: will our conversations be truly ours, or will they ...
Datum: 18.05.2009 05:00 •
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Intel has built its business by creating new markets with advanced technology. In this talk from the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference, Paul Otellini talks about Intel's plans for the next few years. He says that two major businesses that will be created are enterprise collaboration and the pers...
Datum: 16.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 17.7 MB
For Linden Lab's founder and chairman Philip Rosedale, the open-ended social experiment that is Second Life doesn't end at the borders of the virtual world he envisioned and brought to life. The company itself is an evolving social and organizational experiment. In this conversation, Phili...
Datum: 15.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 20.5 MB
Quantitative analysis of market data produced great returns in the past, but what should computing power of the future be used for? In this presentation from the O'Reilly Money:Tech conference, David Leinweber of UC Berkeley explains how the future edge in financial markets will come from extr...
Datum: 14.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 16.5 MB
Joel and Jeff sit down with Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster to discuss the shifting sands of Apple and Microsoft APIs, the value of software development conferences, intuition versus empiricism for developers, and "parrot programming".
Datum: 13.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 27.9 MB
Dan Bricklin discusses his new book, Bricklin on Technology, in which he talks about the human aspect of technology: how it is created, how it is used, and how it evolves. He talks about how the book came about and how he decided what content to include. He also reviews the particular issues in tryi...
Datum: 12.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 26.6 MB
Only 9 percent of the electorate thinks the U.S. Congress is doing a good job. Lawrence Lessig talks about the damage that arises from politicians focusing on raising funds to get themselves reelected. This constant attention to making money feeds the Washington 'economy of influence'. The...
Datum: 11.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 6.5 MB
New Web software applications perform and are used differently. Consequently, the hardware and infrastructure of yesterday is insufficient. In this presentation from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference, John Fowler of Sun Microsystems discusses the new Web application architecture components tha...
Datum: 09.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 8.3 MB
David Glazer says that people are the killer app of the web. That is, finding ways to connect people easily and seamlessly is the next great wave in computing. There are barriers to overcome, but the desire to see it happen is great. In this presentation Glazer offers a snapshot of how we got to thi...
Datum: 08.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 14.6 MB
Moira speaks with UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff about the psychology and biology of our emotions. Orloff discusses her book Emotional Freedom, a road map for those who are stressed out, discouraged, or overwhelmed as well as for those who are in a good emotional place but want to feel even bet...
Datum: 07.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 13.5 MB
In this humorous talk from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Damian Conway combines quantum mechanics and general relativity with Perl to write code that executes in constant time, zero time, and finally backwards in time.
Datum: 06.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 29.4 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss the launch of Server Fault, how you determine if your code is smelly (or just aromatic), how programmers learn by doing, and how good ideas are too crazy to copy until it's too late.
Datum: 06.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 29.9 MB
Language is the way we understand things. In his 2009 Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) presentation in San Francisco, widely-read blogger, columnist and open source advocate Doc Searls examines how we talk about the Internet and how we can move past the outdated language and concepts of t...
Datum: 04.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 9.7 MB
In this conversation with Joan Peckham, host Jon Udell continues a discussion about computational thinking that began in an earlier episode with Jeannette Wing, who now heads the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Joan Peckham, who is on ...
Datum: 02.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 18.4 MB
Artur Bergman, VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia, talks about what it really means to be a player on the Internet. Bergmen believes that here is a real value in reliability and operations that is not always clear to the service providers. Operations is as much a part of the brand as the cont...
Datum: 01.05.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 7 MB
Moira speaks with a panel of nationally-recognized engineering deans and professors, eliciting big ideas to meet the National Academy of Engineering's grand challenges.
Datum: 30.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 15.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Craig Wheeler, CEO of Moementa Pharmaceuticals, who discusses biologics and the new biosimilars bill in Congress.
Datum: 30.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 8.2 MB
Joel and Jeff sit down with Joel's business partner Michael Pryor to discuss the wonders of the Computer History Museum, the value of meta, the D.I.Y. ethos, and whether studying black hat techniques is important to programmers.
Datum: 29.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 27.6 MB
Under Tony Hsieh's leadership as CEO, Zappos.com has grown gross merchandise sales from $1.6 million in 2000 to $840 million in 2008. In this presentation at the Web 2.0 Conference, Tony Hsieh talks about his initial business background and how those experiences influenced him to focus on corp...
Datum: 28.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 8.5 MB
Chris Messina has been an advocate of an open, social Web for many years. In this talk at the Graphing Social Patterns conference, Chris outlines potential problems with the current "walled garden" ideology of the major social networks and how the DiSo project aims to tackle them.
Datum: 27.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 13.9 MB
You know you've been there! You're pulling your hair out trying to debug some Javascript code that's making your company's home page crash, but you just can't find the error. Before you end up bald, or balder, then maybe Firebug can offer some help. With a powerful, yet easy...
Datum: 26.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 5.2 MB
Do virtual worlds provide us the best tool to learn about the real world? While geo-location technologies let us create and play GPS-enabled adventures in the real world, they also allow us to simulate and model real physical geography within the virtual worlds of MMO's. Jeremy Irish, CEO of G...
Datum: 25.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 11.2 MB
When the economy turns sour, websites for job seekers and career changers become more popular then ever. At Path101.com, the tagline is community-powered career discovery. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Path101's CEO Charlie O'Donnell and Scientist/Data Wizard Hilary Mason disc...
Datum: 24.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 19.9 MB
Moira speaks with Dr. Alan Boss about his book The Crowded Universe and how NASA's Kepler Mission expects to discover possible life-supporting planets.
Datum: 23.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 17 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews David Ewing Duncan about his work in trying to help develop a personalized medicine project. He talks about how it is possible to have a project in place within ten years, using the human genome project example, where scientists worked together on a worldwide basis to accom...
Datum: 23.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 7 MB
Joel and Jeff sit down with Steve Yegge to discuss his JavaScript compilation project, a generalized "Google-y" approach for plugging language support into editors, and the overall importance and philosophy of language tooling.
Datum: 22.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 35.6 MB
Three participants in the Utah Open Source Foundation discuss how smaller local computer user groups can build into organizations that reach people in larger areas. They give some background about the foundation and talk about how the Utah Open Source Conference has become a useful way for interest...
Datum: 21.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 20 MB
Today's human-computer interaction paradigms are not enough; they are clunky and not very efficient. We should instead follow Mother Nature and approach it in a more 'neural-like' way to make the human-computer interaction experience as smooth and natural as possible. Robert Nevin bel...
Datum: 20.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
Moira Gunn interviews Ed Humes, Pulitzer Prize winning author, about his book Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet. The book features profiles of visionaries who have dedicated their lives and their fortunes to saving the planet from ecological destruction.
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Datum: 19.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 15.1 MB
John Doerr discusses a range of topics including technology policy in the new Obama administration and his thoughts on the economy and the effect on innovation. He also gives specific advice for startups in the current economic climate. He also talks about recent VC investment direction in the Inte...
Datum: 18.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 16 MB
Jeremy Kemper, one of the largest contributors to the Ruby on Rails framework, talks about various techniques to improve performance in this presentation at the O'Reilly European Rails Conference. This is a must-listen presentation for anyone who is interested in optimizing the performance of ...
Datum: 17.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 28.3 MB
Moira interviews Dr. Joe Miletich, Senior Vice President, R&D, Amgen, about how new DNA technologies are changing on-going scientific studies. She also speaks with Carlos Riva, CEO, Verenium Corporation, about how ethanol is moving from small farms to full commercialization.
Datum: 16.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 10.3 MB
Moira speaks with Scott Thompson, the President of PayPal. He tells us what it takes to make PayPal global.
Datum: 16.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 13.4 MB
Joel and Jeff, with guest Alex Papadimoulis of The Daily WTF, discuss the distinction between IT/sysadmins and programmers, online justice for webforums, user-friendly IDs for databases, and the future of software distribution.
Datum: 15.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 31.9 MB
Cydni Tetro of NextPage discusses the Scrum methodology of software development and how it is used at her company. She talks about the various phases and the responsibilities of each person on the development team. She also talks about the use of Twitter in marketing, as well as the role of women i...
Datum: 14.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 26.2 MB
Economic activity is now driven by creativity. More value is created by communities than by companies, but much of this value is not monetized. In this talk from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation discusses the balance between openness and proprietary...
Datum: 13.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 16 MB
We play many roles in our daily lives: colleague, friend, parent, consumer, family member. Yet, says Charlene Li, our multidimensional lives are not currently accessible or integrated in any significant way. In this presentation Li discusses what she sees as the future of social networks, where the ...
Datum: 11.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 13.7 MB
When a crime occurs in cyberspace, how do you cordon off the scene and process the evidence? Erin Kenneally is a lawyer who helps law enforcement agencies think about forensics in a connected world. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, she discusses how existing practices do -- and don't -...
Datum: 10.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 18.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Alva Noe, author of the book Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, in which he challenges the assumptions underlying neuroscientific studies of consciousness.
Datum: 09.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 10.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews David Ewing Duncan, author of the book Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World, in which he became the ultimate guinea pig, putting every aspect of his physical makeup under the microscope.
Datum: 09.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 13.2 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss planning your career, the importance (or not?) of localization, what makes a good moderator, and dealing with programmers who lack interpersonal skills.
Datum: 08.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 35.9 MB
Timothy Fitz joins Phil and Scott to discuss the concept of Continuous Deployment in software development. He believes that it is better to send out constant small changes, allowing for problems to appear quicker and be solved easier. He gives real world examples of how the process works and also ...
Datum: 07.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 24.9 MB
Nathan Eagle describes the research he has been conducting with mobile phones beginning with his PhD program at MIT and since. The work has included analyzing data coming from mobile devices in order to model and predict social behavior. For the past two years Eagle has been teaching mobile phone pr...
Datum: 06.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 8.2 MB
Seth Grimes is a business intelligence expert with a special interest in text analytics. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he discusses how a new breed of tools is enabling companies to build "voice of the customer" applications that extract useful signals from the noisy chatter th...
Datum: 03.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 22 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Cliff Reid, Chairman of Complete Genomics about DNA data and large scale genome studies. He discusses how his company's high quality, affordable DNA sequencing enables commercial-scale research of the genetic mechanisms underlying drug responses and complex diseases.
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Datum: 02.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 9.5 MB
Moira speaks with psychologist and author Dr. Ken Dychtwald, about re-writing the script for aging, especially in these economic times.
Datum: 01.04.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 14.1 MB
The market for Internet and mobile use is growing at a rapid pace in India, which makes it ripe for solutions aimed at its unique population. Rajesh Jain is at the forefront of this growth, seeking out ways to reach as many users as possible. In this presentation he outlines how his companies addres...
Datum: 31.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
Jim Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com, talks about the democratization of financial data access and its impact of on the investment landscape. He discusses how the information advantages that once underpinned hedge fund activities have given way to a freer flow of data. Cramer dissects the fate o...
Datum: 30.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 16.3 MB
Moira speaks with Astrophysicist Mario Livio, who asks and answers the question: "Is God a Mathematician?"
Datum: 29.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 14.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Holady of QRX Pharma. He reviews the company's work in creating new applications for old blockbuster drugs.
Datum: 29.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 9.6 MB
Andrew Rasiej is a social entrepreneur who believes that the abundant connectivity we're creating and experiencing can transform education, politics, and society as a whole. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he discusses several of the projects he has founded, including MOUSE, an educati...
Datum: 27.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 22.4 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss Eclipse, plugin architectures, sketching mockups, and optimizations that don't optimize.
Datum: 25.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 32.4 MB
Legacy software is usually seen as a burden, but in this talk from RailsConf Europe, David Heinemeier Hansson flips that idea on its head. In order to recognize bad software, you have to become a better developer, so if your old code is "legacy", that means you have progressed. Legacy shou...
Datum: 24.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 30.5 MB
At some point while trying to get companies to adopt open source practices, Robert Lefkowitz realized that there was no specific open source software development methodology. In this presentation Lefkowitz discusses how he used Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory as a starting point to establish...
Datum: 23.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 10 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Rohit Shukla, CEO of the LARTA Institute. He discusses how some governments are helping struggling biotech start-ups.
Datum: 21.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 8.2 MB
This week host Jon Udell interviews IT Conversations executive producer Phil Windley. His new company, Kynetx, provides structured, contextualized browsing experiences. In this interview Phil explains how Information Cards, jQuery, a universal browser extension, and a cloud-based ruleset work togeth...
Datum: 20.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 21.1 MB
Joel and Jeff record a podcast in front of a live audience at MIX09.
Datum: 19.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 32.2 MB
Carl Malamud discusses his campaign to be appointed as the Public Printer of the United States. As the head of the Governmnent Printing Office, he would continue the work he has done at Public.Resource.Org, where he has made easily available millions of pages of government documents, as well as vid...
Datum: 17.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 9.9 MB
Adrian Cockcroft has coined the term 'Millicomputer' to cover any computing device that uses less than a watt of power; small enough to fit in your pocket, cool enough not to burn your leg. In this presentation, he takes us on a tour of the amazing technologies that already exist and gives...
Datum: 16.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 7.6 MB
Changes in the size, speed, and capabilities of databases underlie every major technology change in capital markets. Investors want to store more, do it faster, and be able to compare the present to any arbitrary period in the past--and do it all in real-time. While that has never been possible, ent...
Datum: 15.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 12 MB
There is an interaction between changes that happen in technology, changes in economics, and changes in society. The software industry is at the heart of these fundamental economic and social changes. More than any other time in history, software matters. In his keynote speech at the 2008 O'R...
Datum: 14.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 12.8 MB
Neocartography, neogeography, the geospatial web: These words and phrases evoke the unfolding drama at the intersection of physical and virtual space. Andrew Turner is in the thick of the action. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he discusses GeoCommons, pocketmaps, collaborative data curatio...
Datum: 13.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 22.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Eric Simons, author of the book Darwin Slept Here, a portrait of a young Charles Darwin. 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.
Datum: 12.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 12.9 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss what a program manager does, the value (or lack thereof) of a functional spec and vision statement, building developer community, and planning your development time.
Datum: 11.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 33.6 MB
Scott Lemon discusses TopFollowFriday, a website that can be used to filter and choose to trust or not trust something, based on the reputation of the person who created the content. Based on #followfriday, a growing Twitter ad-hoc event that occurs each Friday, Scott's new site tracks #follow...
Datum: 10.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 16.7 MB
Simonie Wilson, a senior speech scientist working at Intervoice, shares her thoughts about, and experiences in the field of VUI's (Voice User Interfaces). Today's VUI's aren't really that good, and people know this; or do they? Simonie, an expert in the field, would like us to be...
Datum: 09.03.2009 05:00 •
Größe: 7.5 MB
Sara Nelson of Publishers Weekly takes a closer look at some of the things you think you know about the book business. She also raises the questions, "Why should we care about books any more?" and doesn't anyone read books for pleasure today? Topics range from what kinds of books we r...
Datum: 08.03.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 13.9 MB
LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, is building an application platform aimed at maximizing user value and business success. In this presentation from O'Reilly's Graphing Social Patterns conference, Adam Nash describes LinkedIn's strengths as a professional communication ...
Datum: 07.03.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 10.8 MB
Susan RoAne, author of the book Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World, talks to Moira Gunn about how basic conversational and social skills have deteriorated. RoAne's book offers simple steps to more effective communication.
Datum: 05.03.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 11.3 MB
Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith discuss the status of Bespin, a project of Mozilla Labs. The company states that Bespin aims to increase developer productivity and promte the use of open standards. Dion and Ben talk about the development of the project and its early prototype. The group also discus...
Datum: 03.03.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 22.1 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss the enduring influence of C, the questionable value of the title "Software Architect", and the evolution of Java.
Datum: 03.03.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 31.7 MB
Jim Van Meggelen gives a talk about Asterisk, the world's leading open source PBX telephony engine and telephony applications toolkit, as well as the tough challenges of running a telecom business and how one can deliver telephony infrastructure to small companies. He shares with us his insight...
Datum: 02.03.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
John Ingram, Chairman of Ingram Book Group, discusses the challenges facing the publishing industry today. How do publishers decide how to divide investments between the physical printing of materials and digital publishing? What questions must be asked in order to effectively allocate resources to...
Datum: 01.03.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 10.9 MB
Global technology team leader at Morgan Stanley Mary Meeker gives her update on all things tech and internet in her presentation at the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. In this short, data-rich presentation she also gives her thoughts on the economy and the current recession.
Datum: 28.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 8.8 MB
Microsoft's "Oslo" initiative aims to make it easier for developers, for IT professionals, and for ordinary computer users to define, share, and reason about the data representations that underpin software, services, and business logic. In this conversation, Doug Purdy and host Jon Ud...
Datum: 27.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 23.4 MB
Moira speaks with Neil Degrasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium Director and author of The Pluto Files. He talks about all the flack he took for downgrading Pluto from a planet to a dwarf.
Datum: 26.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 14.8 MB
Most people would rather take a pill than deal with injections. Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Andrew Hopkins about why this issue is affecting the field of biotech pharmaceuticals.
Datum: 26.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 9.2 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss dealing with incompetent programmers, whether salaries should be public, dealing with technical debt, and programming for small businesses.
Datum: 25.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 32.8 MB
Doug Kaye joins Phil and Scott to discuss the recently launched SpokenWord.org, a free service that helps you find, manage and share audio and video spoken-word recordings. In addition to giving a basic description of the site, Doug also discusses the technical aspects of the project, including how ...
Datum: 24.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 26 MB
In this Q&A session the Rails core team discuss trends in the Rails community, the challenge of SproutCore, framework competition, and how to pick a Ruby implementation. Along with insights into the team's personal technology interests and the folly of micro-optimisation, the dangers of ove...
Datum: 23.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 27 MB
Mark Baker has always worked with distributed systems, starting with DCE and CORBA. When he learned about the Web's REST architectural style, he embraced it as a better way. When the Web Services movement veered away from key RESTful principles -- a uniform interface, hyperlinked representation...
Datum: 20.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 17.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews David Young of FermiScan, a company that is developing a new method of breast cancer detection using a snip of hair. He talks about the benefits of the test and its current market status.
Datum: 19.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 10.7 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Ken Brill about a paradox of modern life. He discusses how we traded in our big gas-guzzling automobiles, while dealing with the surprise energy downside of surfing the Internet.
Datum: 19.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 13.3 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss ethical email, backup strategies, how to learn new programming languages, and dealing with underperforming developers.
Datum: 18.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 33 MB
Jesse Stay joins Phil and Scott to discuss SocialToo, described as "your companion to the social Web". Jesse talks about how the site can help you become a social power user by using SocialToo's tools to help members of such sites as Twitter and Facebook better take advantage of the c...
Datum: 17.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 22.5 MB
Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath of Yahoo! Brickhouse, gives a brief talk about the very exciting work he is doing on Fire Eagle, a Yahoo! owned service that acts as a store for user location (in real-time!) information. A backbone for other location and geo-aware based services and application...
Datum: 16.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 7.5 MB
In this talk from the 2007 Singularity Summit, James Hughes predicts that while artificial general intelligence is likely, it is also likely to seem alien to our way of thinking and difficult to control. He also discusses some of the rarely mentioned negative impacts AGI could have on society.
Datum: 15.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 12.8 MB
While the number of Facebook apps is increasing, activity is flattening out and concentrated in the most popular apps. In this presentation from O'Reilly's Graphing Social Patterns conference, Roger Magoulas of O'Reilly Media breaks down some statistics and opportunities on Facebook ...
Datum: 14.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
Nathan Torkington gives a very humorous talk about how we can spawn (pun intended) the next generation of open source hackers and teach kids how
to use computers. He talks about various aspects of teaching kids and teachers alike. He further explores many different facets of a modern computer enviro...
Datum: 13.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 9.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Zachary Shore of the Naval Postgraduate School about blunders, looking back through history and gleaning insights on life in the present. The techno-snafu's start with no other than Thomas Alva Edison.
Datum: 12.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 10.2 MB
Jim Greenwood, President of BIO, joins Moira Gunn to discuss the state of biotech today. In particular, he talks about what we can expect from the new Obama administration.
Datum: 12.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 13.5 MB
Joel and Jeff sit down with Robert Martin aka "Uncle Bob", and discuss software quality, the value of software engineering principles, and test-driven development.
Datum: 11.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 29.8 MB
Anne Thomas Manes joins Phil and Scott to discuss whether Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is dead. In addition to talking about why people are bad at architecture, she reviews examples of concrete architectural practices and makes it clear that spectacular gains come from spectacular efforts.
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Datum: 10.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 20.1 MB
Javier Solter talks about the importance of measuring the health of any cloud solution that might be entrusted with the running of mission critical applications. He talks about the problems inherent in the current generation of cloud computing offerings and why comprehensive, transparent performance...
Datum: 09.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 6.8 MB
Ken Brooks of Cengage Learning discusses the challenges of mixing digital and print media publishing together efficiently and economically. He also discusses how moving from a low scale craft process to a high scale impact process model improves not only productivity but profitability.
Datum: 08.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 14.6 MB
Andy Singleton is an entrepreneur who has long studied and practiced the art of distributed software development. Influenced by the open source and agile movements, he has arrived at some startling conclusions about how to manage commercial projects. Among them: don't interview people, don'...
Datum: 06.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 18.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Don Elmer about a new approach for fighting HIV now being developed by Koronis Pharmaceuticals. The company is pioneering the development of a new class of anti-viral therapeutics based on a novel mechanism called Viral Decay Acceleration (VDA).
Datum: 05.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
Moira speaks with Darrel Rhea, the CEO of Cheskin Added Value. He tells us that even in an economic meltdown, we need to study the marketplace. They also discuss the importance of user-centered design and the current state of innovation.
Datum: 05.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 15.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with two scientists involved with new companies formed to work with new medical discoveries. Dr. Carolee Barlow discusses newly updated knowledge about anti-depressants and how they work. Then, Dr. Paul Rubin talks about the science of fish oils.
Datum: 05.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 11.5 MB
Joel and Jeff sit down with Michael Lopp, aka Rands, to discuss how a geek manages other geeks, the dangers of working remotely, the pitfalls of offshoring, and some techniques for continual learning.
Datum: 04.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 31.4 MB
Aaron Iba joins Phil and Scott to discuss EtherPad, a real-time collaborative text editing tool currently in beta. In addition to giving details about EtherPad, Aaron talks about how it uses AppJet as a platform. He gives a great deal of technical background information and reviews the future of the...
Datum: 03.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 22.6 MB
Just as the PC subsumed the typewriter, Peter Sisson predicts the inevitable integration of the phone and PC. He describes a PC phone integration model for the small office, home office huge market. The model is simple and requires only a PC, a phone, and a hosted service, allowing the customer to d...
Datum: 02.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 6.8 MB
Robert Laughlin talks about his new book "The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind." Professor Laughlin explores the inherent conflict between the government's efforts to support and protect the commercialization of Intellectual Property and the scientific researcher...
Datum: 01.02.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 7.6 MB
From the Greeks to the geeks, everyone loves to complain says former Sun chief open source evangelist Danese Cooper as she uncovers the role of whinging in the open source ecosystem. She paints the current state of open source cooperation and delivers a snapshot of beneficial directions for the comm...
Datum: 31.01.2009 06:00 •
Größe: 7.6 MB
Phil Long is on a five-year mission to find out more about how technology can enhance active learning. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he reviews lessons learned from MIT's TEAL (technology-enabled active learning) initiative, and discusses the related work he and his team are doing a...
Datum: 30.01.2009 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss database design and the shell game of performance, the value of short, focused presentations, and the importance (or not) of a prestigious degree for software engineers.
Datum: 29.01.2009 06:00 •
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Moira speaks with Van Jones about what it takes to build a green collar economy. Remember that 10 pounds each of us Americans put on over the last decade? Well, he's computed what it's costing us in terms of gas in our cars and fuel in our jets.
Datum: 28.01.2009 06:00 •
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How would you react if a company you owned shares in decided to invest 1% of its equity, 1% of its profit, and 1% of its manpower to solve big problems? Larry Page and Sergey Brin included these provisions into the original IPO for Google. This seeded Google.org with nearly $1 billion. In this sessi...
Datum: 27.01.2009 06:00 •
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Allen Hurff tells the inside story of the creation of the MySpace platform, the genesis of OpenSocial. Hurff discusses MySpace's focus on developer relations and the APIs available and gives some clues to future enhancements. He emphasizes the balance required to provide powerful developer tool...
Datum: 26.01.2009 06:00 •
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Geo is impacting many industries including automotive, retail, telecom and advertising. Emerging from these current technologies are applications for the GeoWeb, GeoMobile, GeoCar, and GeoVoice. These entrenched industries are wide-open for investments and this presentation provides some guidance ...
Datum: 25.01.2009 06:00 •
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Peter Kogge of the University of Notre Dame discusses the obstacles to reaching exascale computing and the benefits of achieving it. He describes how supercomputing researchers have set a goal to increase computing power by one thousand times by 2015, but that won't be possible with current har...
Datum: 25.01.2009 06:00 •
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When Andy Boutin couldn't find a wood-fired boiler compatible with the steam heating system in his new home, he decided to mate a pellet burner to the existing boiler. Now his company, Pellergy, has brought the solution to the market. In this interview with host Jon Udell, the former marine eng...
Datum: 23.01.2009 06:00 •
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David Recordon announces the creation of the Open Web Foundation. The open web is all about the data and protocols behind the web services in the cloud; the open web needs open data, and open data needs open specifications. Modeled after the Apache Software Foundation, the Open Web Foundation'...
Datum: 22.01.2009 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss YSlow optimizations for large websites, the value of unit testing, and the hidden pitfalls of asking questions to programmers.
Datum: 21.01.2009 06:00 •
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At the beginning of the new year, Phil, Dion, Ben and Scott discuss new products and projects, including business startups, new computers and computing devices, and other upcoming activities. Beginning with the problems with funding new companies, they move on to talk about some of the new CES and ...
Datum: 20.01.2009 06:00 •
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Amit Desai describes the first nationwide voice-activated phone service for delivering driving directions to cell phone callers available from Dial Directions. In his short talk, Desai explains the usage model and then touches on two other spoken location services available from the company.
Datum: 19.01.2009 06:00 •
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Kathy Sierra and Tim O'Reilly discuss the principles behind "creating passionate users" and how this energizes and increases consumers. They discuss how in today's competitive marketplace, every business is looking for an edge. This typically forces business leaders to face the c...
Datum: 18.01.2009 06:00 •
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Luiz Barroso discusses the opportunities for improvement in energy efficiency in three areas of computer operations: data center efficiencies, server energy efficiencies, and computing efficiencies. What should we look at before energy cost in computing becomes a constraint? Based on his research i...
Datum: 17.01.2009 06:00 •
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In this conversation with Bob Jennings, a longtime user and designer of alternative heating systems, host Jon Udell reviews the rationale for his own recently-installed wood gasification boiler. And Bob Jennings explains why trees and the sun will be key ingredients of New England's renewable e...
Datum: 16.01.2009 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the expansion of Stack Overflow into non-programming IT topics, the pernicious problem of "systemitis", and how to reach the next generation of programmers.
Datum: 14.01.2009 06:00 •
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Greg Ness talks about how the internet network infrastructure may have serious issues in supporting the new services and products now being offered to users. He reviews how the current system may be handling the load, he gives examples on why upgrades and changes are needed. He also discusses how ...
Datum: 13.01.2009 06:00 •
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Twelve speakers, five minutes each, speak what's on their minds on topics as varied as email apnea, how to be successful, a digital fairy tale, and nine other sessions in this hour of mind jamming discussion.
Datum: 12.01.2009 06:00 •
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As Christine Peterson, cofounder of the Foresight Nanotech Institute puts it, "It is a scary world ahead." With threats possible by traditional, biological, and nano-technological means, Peterson questions the current approaches to security in this speech from the 2007 Singularity Summit. ...
Datum: 11.01.2009 06:00 •
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In this IEEE Spectrum Radio Special, automotive editor John Volker gives his list of the top 10 tech cars for 2008. While most of the tech is about the environment, some are not, like the $2,500 Tata car meant to put India on wheels or the 200mph Corvette ZR1.
Datum: 10.01.2009 06:00 •
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In the wake of the epic December 2008 ice storm, the majority of New Hampshire's homes and businesses fell off the power grid. The best source of information about the outage, and the ongoing effort to restore service, was Martin Murray's @psnh Twitter feed. In this conversation with host ...
Datum: 09.01.2009 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff, with special guest Eric Sink of SourceGear, discuss source control present and future, why writing a compiler is an important rite of passage for programmers, and how budding software engineers should be educated.
Datum: 07.01.2009 06:00 •
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Bill Burger describes the social disruption happening in the publishing industry because of new technologies and business models for content distribution. He shares several examples of these disruptive new models for content publishing and gives advice to publishers on staying relevant in these chan...
Datum: 06.01.2009 06:00 •
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While some believe that the Web 2.0 wave is winding down, in this panel discussion from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, there are clear signs that Web 2.0 is spreading and reaching new markets and users. As it spreads, it is moving into new industries and encompassing more applications....
Datum: 05.01.2009 06:00 •
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On this edition of Interview with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with the Chief Scientist of IBM Entity Analytics, Jeff Jonas, who discusses a set of themes woven through his work, explored on his blog, and captured in a series of evocative phrases: perpetual analytics, non-obvious relationship a...
Datum: 02.01.2009 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Maria Giudice, CEO and founder of Hot Studio, about the democratization of the internet, and the principles of human centered design.
Datum: 01.01.2009 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Professor Jesse Schell, from the Entertainment Technology Center, about the serious task of designing video games.
Datum: 01.01.2009 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with various leaders of industry of the biotech industry in the San Diego BioTech Cluster and asks them how to attract biotech venture capital in a place where the venture capitalists don't live.
Datum: 01.01.2009 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the mysteries of server hardware, anomalous voting patterns, change fatigue, and whether or not Joel is the Martha Stewart of the software industry.
Datum: 31.12.2008 06:00 •
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Design or evolution? In building complex, artificial intelligence systems, is it best to use top down design, a gradual evolutionary process, or a combination of the two in order to maintain some level of control? Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is placing his money on...
Datum: 30.12.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 9.9 MB
Steve Jelley, Eric Lindstrom, Matt Locke, and Jeremy Silver discuss digital media in the context of teen social networking, books, activism, and predictions of what the digital future will look like. Because we are a social race and need to communicate, content will remain even when platforms mutate...
Datum: 30.12.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 11.6 MB
Mark Jacobstein discusses a solution that brings together VoIP and mobile like peanut butter and chocolate. Mobile voice does not mean running VoIP over the cellular data channel. Instead Jacobstein reveals how the iSkoot solution uses the voice-optimized, circuit-switched network for delivery of vo...
Datum: 29.12.2008 06:00 •
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Bionic people, facial scanners, and artificial organisms: What do these things all have in common? They're all on "the edge" - new territory just waiting to be explored, and they might be closer than you think. That's exactly what O'Reilly Radar is all about.
Datum: 26.12.2008 06:00 •
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What do you get when you apply Moore's law to robotics and GPS? Chris Anderson, of Wired magazine, explains what you get in this Where 2.0 presentation. Cheap and ubiquitous location technologies combined with robotic toys have given birth to a thriving amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles communi...
Datum: 24.12.2008 06:00 •
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Craig Burton discusses innovation by reviewing three of his essays on the topic. He talks about how to distinguish innovation myths from realities, reviews how technology companies make mistakes with customer demographics, and how Novell created software infrastructure as a new software category.
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Datum: 23.12.2008 06:00 •
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Elizabeth Churchill, researcher at Yahoo, discusses a project to connect online community activity with offline community activity in the physical world toward a goal of building relationships and trust between two groups of colleagues in different time zones. She shares observations about people�...
Datum: 22.12.2008 06:00 •
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Although host Jon Udell isn't an avid gamer, and neither is his wife Luann, he was intrigued when she came home from a physical therapy session raving about the Nintendo Wii. In this episode Luann talks about how the Wii, the Balance Board, and the Wii Fit application are helping her retrain th...
Datum: 19.12.2008 06:00 •
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Herbert Needleman has received numerous awards for his work in documenting the effects of lead poisoning in children. Dr. Moira Gunn asks Needleman why we have unleaded paints and gasoline, and how neuro-developmental changes are caused by lead poisoning.
Datum: 18.12.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Wayne Pisano, the CEO of the world's largest flu vaccine producer Sanofi Pasteur, and asks him whether Americans receive the same vaccination as Europeans do, and how you can prepare for a global flu epidemic.
Datum: 18.12.2008 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss whether programmers should spend time working with customers, the value of easter eggs, and how to define elegant code.
Datum: 17.12.2008 06:00 •
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Eric Norlin is an expert on how social networking data from one source is broken down and being reaggregated in other ways. He talks about how tools and websites, such as Twitter and Zemanta, are being used to create new concepts and how this new information is being used.
Datum: 16.12.2008 06:00 •
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Brough Turner describes residential internet speeds of 100 MB per sec for only 16 dollars a month in Sweden as illustration of how we are falling behind in the United States. Turner, a telecommunications expert, believes there is only one thing we should fight for - owning the dark fiber ourselves o...
Datum: 15.12.2008 06:00 •
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Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, discusses the growth of commerce around Ubuntu and the key drivers and themes for the coming year. Shuttleworth makes announcements and delivers commitments from Ubuntu in the commercial ecosystem, the consumer market, and the developer community. Their goal is ...
Datum: 14.12.2008 06:00 •
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Kathy Sierra talks about expertise and neuroscience. The study of the differences between the world class performer and the average performer reveals something more important than genetics. Sierra shares several tips on how everyone can improve their performance and the most important factors in get...
Datum: 13.12.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 14 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Judy Estrin, author of "Closing the Innovation Gap" and Cisco's CTO, about the state of the innovation ecosystem in the United States following the dot-com bust.
Datum: 11.12.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Robert Walsh, the president of LS9 Inc., about their innovative new process of turning any kind of biomass into biodiesel.
Datum: 11.12.2008 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff sit down with special guest Babak Ghahremanpour, the lead developer for FogBugz.
Datum: 10.12.2008 06:00 •
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Jeremy Silver discusses why the world of music in the internet age is on the edge of enormous change, but not on the edge of disaster. Silver reviews the recent difficult history of the music industry since the growth of the internet. He sees positive signs in the many areas of experimentation in mu...
Datum: 08.12.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 12 MB
Mozilla is developing new open web tools for developers that will make it easier to deal with browser differences. Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith discuss their new jobs with the company and what they hope to achieve both short-term and long-term. Tyler Whitaker also talks about his internet trouble...
Datum: 08.12.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 23.2 MB
Five years from now, chances are you'll be dependent upon web-based GIS applications at home and in the office. And it's likely that those GIS applications will evolve from the work of John Hanke. In this session from the 2008 O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference, Hanke discusses the progres...
Datum: 07.12.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 13.2 MB
Ubuntu has emerged in the last few years as the most popular Linux distribution, but despite its potential, it is a long way from being a dominant presence. In this keynote from the 2007 O'Reilly Ubuntu Live conference, Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst at RedMonk, describes some of the ...
Datum: 06.12.2008 06:00 •
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In this 2003 archive interview, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the late Michael Crichton about his then latest book, Prey.
Datum: 04.12.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Gregory Mitchell, a research biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, about the economics of algae, and why it forms to basis of most bio-fuel research.
Datum: 04.12.2008 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss software piracy, dealing with public criticism, how to get people to answer your questions, and the ideal programmer office.
Datum: 03.12.2008 06:00 •
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RDFa helps bloggers and website authors make their web pages smarter by adding computer-readable information to a site. RFDa provides a set of XHTML attributes to augment visual data with machine-readable hints. Elias Torres and Ben Adida discuss RFDa, including its history, what problems it is mean...
Datum: 02.12.2008 06:00 •
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Christopher Allen, founder of the iPhoneWebDev community, provides an update on the success of the iPhone today, new features added this year to support the Enterprise market, and details about the release of the iPhone SDK. Allen outlines Apple's iPhone apps business model, the questions that ...
Datum: 01.12.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Russel Shorto, author of "Descarte's Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason," about the peculiar role played by Descarte's bones.
Datum: 27.11.2008 06:00 •
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What many Dell customers don't know is that the company is making a major effort in biotech, as Dr. Moira Gunn finds out when she speaks with Scott Jenkins, the director of the Dell's Healthcare & Life Sciences program.
Datum: 27.11.2008 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the importance of pure math to the average software developer, the importance of status reports, SQL parameterization and pulling yourself out of a programming slump. Now with one more Turkey than usual!
Datum: 26.11.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 32.1 MB
Andre' DiMino of the Shadowserver Foundation discusses the darker side of the Internet and how Shadowserver is working to gather, track, and report on malware, botnet activity, and electronic fraud. In addition to giving its background, he talks about methodology and presents examples of some o...
Datum: 25.11.2008 06:00 •
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We've become so used to the idea of telecom as a service in the style of the railroads that we don't realize that we don't need depend on service providers to assure that we can communicate. It's just the opposite - the Internet has demonstrated that it's hard to prevent con...
Datum: 24.11.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
Harold McGee, a gastronomic guru and author of On Food and Cooking, discusses his background and inspiration for writing the book. He shares a cooking experiment which involved a copper bowl, his reason for not having a fancy kitchen, his favorite kitchen tool, and his connection to the molecular ga...
Datum: 23.11.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 7 MB
Saul Griffith relates two intertwined energy stories, the impersonal story about climate change, global energy consumption, and fossil fuels, and the personal story about how every decision you make impacts the planet. Griffith lays out a logical approach to conversations about energy and presents ...
Datum: 22.11.2008 06:00 •
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Just over 35 years ago, Carl Hewitt and his graduate students published a model for computation based on concurrent message-passing Actors. Now the demands of many-core computers and cloud-based software are thrusting that model to the forefront. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Hewitt expl...
Datum: 21.11.2008 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff sit down with Richard White of UserVoice.com to discuss software bug and feature tracking, Web 2.0 style.
Datum: 19.11.2008 06:00 •
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In this session from the 2008 Where 2.0 conference, Sean Gorman discusses Finder!, the browser-based application for finding and sharing GeoData. Gorman gives a bit of history about GeoCommons, a product which brings geo-content to the web. He proposes a federation of the data of all the companies d...
Datum: 18.11.2008 06:00 •
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Much of the meaning behind what people say comes from the context, not just the words. Elephant 2000 is a computer programming language project designed to incorporate the meaning of language, not just its structure. In this talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, John McCarthy, ...
Datum: 17.11.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Charles L. Harper, Jr. asks some "off the wall questions" to challenge readiness of the scientific community to recognize the potential risks and implications of rapid human technological development. Where should our concerns lie given the potential ofsuper intelligent machines that c...
Datum: 14.11.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Gary Small, the director of the UCLA Memory & Aging Research Center, about gaining understanding of the technological alteration of the modern mind through FMRI.
Datum: 13.11.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lyle Armstrong, a stem cell researcher and senior lecturer at Newcastle University, who reminds us what stem cell scientists actually do.
Datum: 13.11.2008 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the productivity loss of being both a gamer and programmer, relying on Google as your primary site search provider, non-English programming languages, and hiring great programmers.
Datum: 12.11.2008 06:00 •
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Eric Lindstrom, cofounder of VideoJuicer, believes that story telling in the television industry is going to change because of the Internet. He talks about what a hub site and an aggregator site is, and which one you'd need at which stage in building your brand. He also talks about the impact o...
Datum: 11.11.2008 06:00 •
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Dean Bubley addresses the challenges facing innovators looking to create openness and choice in the mobile communications market. Bubley, an analyst specializing in the field of mobile and wireless, reminds mobile communication innovators who hold a Utopian view of openness that they must consider t...
Datum: 10.11.2008 06:00 •
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Most people don't think of liquid nitrogen or ink jet printers as kitchen utensils, but most cooks aren't like Homaro Cantu. In this special edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, follow Chef Cantu from his family's fast food kitchen to his restaurant Moto, one of the most innovative in the...
Datum: 09.11.2008 06:00 •
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Have you ever asked yourself, "What's happening in my neighborhood?" If you think your local newspaper has the answers, think again. Adrian Holovaty, who created one of the earliest Web mashups, believes there is a better way to find the answers. In this presentation from the 2008 O&#...
Datum: 08.11.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Keith Devlin, author of "The Unfinished Game," who talks about the letters exchanged between two mathematicians -- Pascal and Fermat -- changed our lives.
Datum: 06.11.2008 06:00 •
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Viruses are everywhere, so how do we identify the ones that are problematic? Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Joseph DeRisi, professor in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, about the promise of an innovative new technology: the virus chip.
Datum: 06.11.2008 06:00 •
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Twine is a new service that "helps people track their interests using the Semantic Web and collective intelligence." In this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell interviews Nova Spivack, CEO and founder of Radar Networks. They discuss how Twine works and where it's h...
Datum: 06.11.2008 06:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss Windows Azure, full text search in SQL Server 2008, Bayesian filtering, porn detection, and project management -- among other things.
Datum: 05.11.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 32.1 MB
Effective search engine optimization and search engine marketing is now crucial to the success of a modern business. Authors Mike Moran and Bill Hunt discuss their book Search Engine Marketing, Inc., giving the fundamentals of search engines as well as guidance on how organizations can better reach...
Datum: 04.11.2008 06:00 •
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While many recall Marshall McLuhan's prophetic pronouncement that the "medium is the message", few people and companies are actively involved in examining how this concept applies to today's Internet-centric world. In this session from the 2008 O'Reilly Emerging Technology C...
Datum: 03.11.2008 06:00 •
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Compounding the health care crisis is a huge wave of aging populations. Health care needs tech-based solutions based in communities and homes, focused on empowering patients to manage their own health and change their behavior as necessary. Eric Dishman of Intel describes the new technology and plat...
Datum: 02.11.2008 05:00 •
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Jeff Waugh reaches back to the Middle Ages to bring the lessons that three giants of distant history can teach the free software community. A passionate advocate for software freedom and open source, he speaks about the historical influences on Ubuntu. Waugh also describes how the modern giants Pyth...
Datum: 01.11.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, about the value of the information we get for free from the internet, and that which for scientists is not out there for any price.
Datum: 30.10.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo and the inventor of plastics derived from corn, about corn derived biofuels. Also, Dr. Bill Gerwick and his graduate student Cameron Coates talk about producing fuel from algae.
Datum: 30.10.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff interview Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, the founders and co-creators of Reddit.
Datum: 30.10.2008 05:00 •
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Computer gaming is a fast growing market and an important means of expression for an entire generation, but new online games are unstable and expensive to develop. In this presentation from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Office of Sun Microsystems po...
Datum: 29.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.7 MB
Ben Rushlo of Keynote Systems discusses how organizations should work to make their websites better. He talks about the status of the web and reviews how perceived performance is often different from actual performance. He gives tips for better operation and gives a number of suggestions that comp...
Datum: 28.10.2008 05:00 •
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Despite major advances in technology, the experience of using a telephone hasn't changed much over the last 100 years. In this presentation from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, Nitzan Shaer, COO of Mobivox, tells how modern speech recognition technology and personalization can mak...
Datum: 27.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 8.4 MB
Defense journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger have traveled globally to visit sites where the infrastructure of the nuclear arms race still remains. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, Hodge and Weinberger, who are husband and wife, talk about nuclear tourism and their motivations for ...
Datum: 26.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 6.2 MB
How do you create a friendly Artificial Intelligence? Eliezer Yudkowsky, Co-Founder & Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, has focused his work on overcoming some of the mathematical impediments to building a self-improving AI. In this presentation he discuss...
Datum: 25.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 25.9 MB
Jon Udell speaks with Granicus co-founder Tom Spengler, who explains how his company's streaming media system enables governments to manage the capture and synchronized presentation of video and text, making the proceedings usefully transparent.
Datum: 24.10.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Robert Martensen, author of "A Life Worth Living," about the good and bad of technology in healthcare in general and as we approach the end of life.
Datum: 23.10.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks cellulose with Tjerk de Ruiter on a "trade-up" kit for Iowa farmers to cellulosic ethanol, and Thomas Videbaek on a surprising cellulosic ethanol plant in China.
Datum: 23.10.2008 05:00 •
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Insurance expert Karl Susman discusses how bloggers and other Web 2.0 users are beginning to deal with and better minimize the financial risk of their activities. He talks with Denise about how the industry is now offering ways for people and businesses to protect themselves in this age of instant ...
Datum: 22.10.2008 05:00 •
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Matt Asay of Alfresco discusses the continuing issues related to the economy of open source software. He talks with Phil and Scott about his current projects and characterizes Microsoft as a possible software development underdog. They also review an article about DNS poisoning and assess a web to...
Datum: 21.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 19.4 MB
The media has changed drastically in the last ten years, both in the explosion of choices and the ability for interaction and self expression. In the presentation from the Thinking Digital conference, Matt Locke of Channel 4, one the UK's primary television channels, discusses the blurring of ...
Datum: 20.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 11.7 MB
On February 17, 2009, all analog television broadcasting in the United States will convert to digital. Millions of households will need to either replace their televisions, sign up for cable or satellite service, or install a digital signal converter. While the Federal government has subsidized th...
Datum: 19.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 6.7 MB
Doug Fisher of Intel speaks about Intel's joint efforts with Ubuntu to deliver rich capabilities in a MID, a mobile internet device. After giving a summary of Intel's activities in support of the open source space, Fisher focuses on the growing relationship between Intel and Ubuntu to inn...
Datum: 18.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 12 MB
On the Tracks4Africa website, travelers pool their data, enrich it with textual and pictorial annotations, and collectively create a GPS map that natives and tourists alike can use and enhance. Jon Udell interviews one of the co-founders of Tracks4Africa, Johann Groenewald, who describes how a commu...
Datum: 17.10.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Business Week journalist and author, Steven Baker, about his latest book, "The Numerati." In his book, Baker discusses the impact of digital technology in the world: toll booths, credit cards, and immediate access to information.
Datum: 16.10.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Lori Andrews, the director of the Insititude for Science, Law and Technology in Illinois, about the use of DNA in a court of law.
Datum: 16.10.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff answer five listener questions, mostly about social software design. Warning: this podcast features a cowbell. Really.
Datum: 15.10.2008 05:00 •
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What are the benefits of using Javascript frameworks such as Prototype and jQuery? What are some of the challenges? Tyler Whitaker joins Phil and Scott to discuss software development and other related technology issues.
Datum: 14.10.2008 05:00 •
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Hardware has not seen the same level of innovation and variety that software has, due to the high costs of manufacturing and distribution. In this presentation from the Emerging Communications Conference, Jeremy Toeman, Head of Marketing at Bug Labs discusses the emerging open source hardware movem...
Datum: 13.10.2008 05:00 •
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Dictionaries may look like books, but they don't act like them. In this presentation of the O'Reilly Tools For Change conference, Erin McKean, Chief Consulting Editor for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, explains the characteristics of books, why the book isn't a goo...
Datum: 12.10.2008 05:00 •
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The Technological Singularity - the moment when artificial intelligence overtakes human intelligence - is coming. According to Vernor Vinge, who invented the term, it will occur sometime around 2030. In this interview with Spectrum Radio's Harry Goldstein, mathematician and science fiction auth...
Datum: 11.10.2008 05:00 •
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November 2008 marks the tenth anniversary of RFC 2445, the iCalendar specification that governs the exchange of calendar information on the Internet. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell invites one of the authors of RFC2445, Derik Stenerson, to reflect on the history of the...
Datum: 10.10.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Frank Wilchen, Nobel laureate and professor at MIT, about his latest book, "Lightness of Being," and how the recently activated Large Hadron Collider might confirm or dispel some of his most recent theories.
Datum: 09.10.2008 05:00 •
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Gaining weight leads to increased risk of becoming a diabetic. Dr. Moira Gunn asks Dr. Christian Weyer, of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, to explain their new combined treatment for diabetes and obesity.
Datum: 09.10.2008 05:00 •
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It's a Yeggethon! Joel and Jeff sit down with Steve Yegge to discuss Google, programming languages, writing code, and just plain writing. This episode runs long as a tribute to Steve.
Datum: 08.10.2008 05:00 •
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Micah Sifry discusses his work with the Sunlight Foundation, an organization using the power of the Internet to strengthen the relationship between citizens and their elected officials and to foster public trust in Congress. He talks about the technical details of the site, including its API and how...
Datum: 07.10.2008 05:00 •
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Steve Cousins, President and CEO of Willow Garage, wants to build an open source platform that will allow enthusiasts to get inside the code and experiment with robotic devices in the same way that early automobile enthusiasts were able to tinker with their cars. The goal is to provide more opportun...
Datum: 06.10.2008 05:00 •
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Rails 2 has a lot of things to feel happy about. Jeremy Kemper, one of the earliest and one of the largest contributors to the Ruby on Rails framework, gives a detailed explanation of the new features in Rails 2.0 and 2.1.
Datum: 05.10.2008 05:00 •
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Allvoices bills itself as "the first open media site where anyone can report from anywhere," but two things that really set it apart are its geolocated citizen media posts from any device, and the zeal of its founder, Silicon Valley veteran Amra Tareen. Learn how her journey from computer...
Datum: 04.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
Many of us feel that the Web is ushering in a new era of global consciousness. But Howard Bloom thinks life has been a collective mind from the very beginning. He made the case in his book "Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang To the 21st Century." Host Jon Udell spea...
Datum: 03.10.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Tim Sanders, author of "Saving the World at Work," and asks how to combine doing good, with working.
Datum: 02.10.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Mari Baker, CEO of Navigenics, about their latest service: they take your DNA, examine it with current and future science, and inform you about any possible health risks for the rest of your life.
Datum: 02.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 12.8 MB
Joel and Jeff conduct a special NYC roundtable discussion with every member of the Stack Overflow team present: Jarrod Dixon, Geoff Dalgas, and Michael Pryor.
Datum: 01.10.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 29 MB
Bob Blakley of Burton Group discusses relationships and how they are important to identity, privacy, and digital security. He gives an overview of how relationships and identity are related, as well as his belief that the primary purpose of a digital identity is to enable relationships.
Datum: 30.09.2008 05:00 •
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TerraNet hopes to bring cell phones to villages in developing nations. CEO Anders Carlius describes TerraNet's ad hoc GSM mesh networking technology and business model. He envisions local entrepreneurs rolling the technology out one village at a time.
Datum: 29.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
Behind every successful boss there is a trusted advisor. The TV series "West Wing" illustrated just how important and exciting this role can be. At last, someone has written a book about it. Spectrum Radio's Susan Hassler interviews management guru Jim Lukaszewski about his new book &...
Datum: 28.09.2008 05:00 •
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The Singularity is near; it will arrive in 10, 50, or 100 years depending on whom you talk to. Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, examines the value of expertise in predicting the future, and discusses his thoughts on artificial general intelligence, based on his past experiences at NASA ...
Datum: 27.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 19 MB
One of the presentations at the DEMO fall 2008 conference was not like the others. Amidst a flock of Web 2.0 startups, Microstaq showed a MEMS (microelectromechanical system) device that controls the flow of coolant in air conditioners. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell s...
Datum: 26.09.2008 05:00 •
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Brian Greene is well known for writing about our universe. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Greene about his latest book "Icarus at the Edge of Time," and asks him why it is an entirely different book than we are used to.
Datum: 25.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 9.7 MB
BioMS is working on a number of ways to treat multiple sclerosis. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the President & CEO of BioMS Medical about two of the most promising ways of treating MS.
Datum: 25.09.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn asks Deborah Eppstein, from Q Therapeutics, to explain what exactly having multiple sclerosis (MS) means for a patient.
Datum: 25.09.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the Stack Overflow team's expedition to NYC, the seven crucial mistakes we made during development, and how to bridge the skill spectrum between beginning and expert software developers.
Datum: 24.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 30.3 MB
Other frameworks have cloned features of Rails. But according to its creator, David Heinemeier Hansson, the Rails philosophy of convention over configuration and abstracting the user from making choices, continues to give its developer community a competitive advantage. The only parallel that can co...
Datum: 22.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 24.5 MB
Clayton Christensen tells all about his work at a semiconductor fabrication plant which was in a need of a rethink. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, the Harvard Business School Professor of Business Administration, and author of "The Innovator's Dilemma," outlines his principle...
Datum: 21.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 11.9 MB
Do you appreciate when someone brings a fresh perspective to a complex and daunting issue? Well can you imagine an issue more impenetrable or discouraging then the Singularity? From the "How Far are We from Advanced AI?" session of the 2007 Singularity Summit, Paul Saffo offers some new ad...
Datum: 20.09.2008 05:00 •
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Jock Gill is an entrepreneur who's thinking broadly and acting decisively to help create a decentralized energy system that makes appropriate use of biomass. In part two of a two-part interview, he and host Jon Udell discuss zero-energy houses, micro combined heat and power, peer-to-peer resour...
Datum: 19.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 18.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the author of "Crowdsourcing," Jeff Howe, who explains the concept of sourcing work or requests out to a crowd on the internet.
Datum: 18.09.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Patrick Casey, from Therapy Cell Limited, about the new technique of growing tendons from our own cells -- it's being done right now on horses.
Datum: 18.09.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff cover the launch of Stack Overflow, and have an extended discussion with Josh Millard of MetaFilter on how to design social software on the web.
Datum: 17.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 30.7 MB
The economic realities of hardware development often stifle innovation. Peter Semmelhack, CEO of Bug Labs, discusses a change in approach, similar to the open source software model, that will promote innovation in the hardware space. Based on the Lego model, Bug Labs is creating a set of tools they...
Datum: 16.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 6.3 MB
Open the telephony network and create a platform accessible to a community of developers. Crick Waters, co-founder, SVP Strategy and Business Development for Ribbit, believes this vision will lead to a new generation of hybrid communication tools and high value applications, and deliver on the premi...
Datum: 15.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 9.3 MB
Using a touch of black humor and irony to convey a noble idea, Nathan Torkington, the chair of OSCON, lightens up the mood as he wraps up the conference, frequently throwing his audience into fits of laughter. He rapidly weaves three keynote messages together into a refreshingly therapeutic open so...
Datum: 13.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7 MB
Jock Gill is an entrepreneur who's thinking broadly and acting decisively to help create an decentralized energy system that makes appropriate use of biomass. In part one of a two-part interview, he and host Jon Udell discuss alternatives to fossil fuel for residential heating in New England, i...
Datum: 12.09.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Greg Bear, about his latest book, "The City at the End of Time."
Datum: 11.09.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the Industrial and Environment Technology VP of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Brett Erickson, about the recent farm billed passed by the United States Congress.
Datum: 11.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 4.9 MB
Joel and Jeff discuss Rock Band 2, the "big universe of dumb programmers", and the general anthropology of developing social software.
Datum: 10.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 32.4 MB
Google's new browser Chrome is one of the topics of discussion with Phil, Scott, and Ben. In addition to its terms of service, that talk about its background, including Google's comic that introduced the new software. They also discuss Perl, Apache modules, and Ajax programming.
Datum: 09.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 27.3 MB
Can you recall the frustration you last felt trying to navigate through a poorly designed IVR system? What if there were an automated web-based solution that would take you directly to the option you need and then sent the call to your phone? Well, that's exactly what Shai Berger, President and...
Datum: 08.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.1 MB
Information technologies weave their way into every aspect of our personal, professional, and civic lives. There's a growing need for informed public discussion of their public policy implications. Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is one emerging forum for that c...
Datum: 08.09.2008 05:00 •
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If you think that Sun Microsystems is that Java company, then you've a lot of news to catch up on. Charles Nutter, co-lead on the JRuby project at Sun, gives a quick round-up of a plethora of initiatives that Sun is working on, for the individual open source developer and the little start-up gu...
Datum: 07.09.2008 05:00 •
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Government corruption affects all aspects of society. At the 2008 O'Reilly ETech Conference, Lawrence Lessig discusses government corruption, especially in the United States Congress. What does government get right, wrong, and where does dependence compromise effective government? Also, Lessig ...
Datum: 06.09.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Kris Kimmel, founder of the Idea Festival, and what's coming up at IF 2008.
Datum: 05.09.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michael Meyer, author of "The Last Days of Old Beijing," about the transformation of a city.
Datum: 04.09.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Alan Sachs, about new medical treatments in development at Merck Pharmaceuticals based not on DNA, but RNA.
Datum: 04.09.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss deadlocks, logging philosophy, the value and risks of taking dependencies on your project, and why you want to work with people who don't always do what you ask them to. Really!
Datum: 03.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 29.8 MB
Attorney Daniel Solove discusses his book Understanding Privacy. He gives an overview of the difficulties involved in discussions of privacy, one of the most important concepts of our time. He talks about how scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many conceding...
Datum: 02.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 29.1 MB
Wouldn't it be amazing if you could hold a "book" in your hands which had hyperlinks? Why would that be amazing, you ask? Well, what if the hyperlink triggered a process that makes a nearby computer, for example, play an MP3 of animal sounds that match the story? In this keynote prese...
Datum: 01.09.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 15.1 MB
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge." That is the goal of Wikipedia's creator, Jimmy Wales. He has set his sights on Google and the other corporate Search Engines with his new project "Wikia," a p...
Datum: 31.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 10.5 MB
Joel Spolsky is a highly revered software pundit, an eminent author, the host of one of the most widely read blogs, the co-founder of New York based FogCreek Software, and a witty and intelligent person to listen to. He believes that the three key ingredients that make great software are: making use...
Datum: 30.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 21 MB
People learning to read will soon be able to use a handheld device to practice their reading skills when trained teachers and the Internet are not available. Using inexpensive hardware, Literacy Bridge plans to provide Talking Book audio players/recorders in developing nations starting this fall, wi...
Datum: 29.08.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Pete Blackshaw, author of "Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends," about consumer megaphones -- the folks who get extremely displeased and upset with products or services.
Datum: 28.08.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. David Lacey, Senior Vice President of Research at Amgen, who talks about a new treatment for bone loss, no matter what the cause.
Datum: 28.08.2008 05:00 •
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Identi.ca is an open microblogging service. Users can post short messages about themselves to Identi.ca, which are then broadcast to friends in their social network using instant messages (IM), RSS feeds, and the Web.
The product's developer, Evan Prodromou, joins Phil and Scott to discuss the ...
Datum: 27.08.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss scaling and social effects in Stack Overflow, how to handle growth and the launch in a controlled way, and answer listener questions about backups, database design, and maintenance programming.
Datum: 27.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 32.5 MB
David Recordon, Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart, pitches the telephony community on grassroots efforts as a means for the development of open standards. Grassroots community groups can serve as the catalyst for addressing challenges that corporate groups have chosen to ignore, and begin to br...
Datum: 25.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
"Nine years to the Singularity, if we really, really, try," says Dr. Ben Goertzel, chief science officer and acting CEO of Novamente. Is this really possible? Dr. Goertzel believes the path to the development of Artificial General Intelligence - a real thinking machine with human level int...
Datum: 24.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 12.5 MB
On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, explore the fascinating energy technologies of the present and future. Listen to specials on "Wind Energy," "Vertical Wind Turbines," and "The Solar Challenge" where the ups and downs of Europe's wind energy are discussed and...
Datum: 22.08.2008 05:00 •
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For MIT's Project SIMILE, David Huynh built an amazing series of web tools for exploring and organizing structured information. Two months into his new gig at Metaweb, he's done it again. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Huynh about his Parallax prototype,...
Datum: 21.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 12.8 MB
Sxipper is a free Firefox add-on that saves you time by keeping track of an unlimited number of usernames and passwords as well as the personal data you share every day over the web. Dick Hardt, founder of Sxip, joins Phil, Scott, and Ben, to discuss the product, as well as the entire issue of priv...
Datum: 20.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 23.7 MB
In the eighteenth episode of Stack Overflow, we finally meet Michael Pryor, the co-founder of Fog Creek Software -- and discuss the progress of the Stack Overflow beta in some depth.
Datum: 20.08.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich about his latest book, "The Dominant Animal," which looks at human evolution and the environment.
Datum: 19.08.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with AgResearch's Dr. Ian Boddy, about the contribution of livestock to global warming and what their biotech research center is doing about it.
Datum: 19.08.2008 05:00 •
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In this special green automotive edition of IEEE Spectrum radio, join John Voelcker at the LA Auto Show, the Electric Vehicle conference, and ride an electric motorcycle. At the LA Auto Show, all of the major car companies showed electric or fuel cell models. At the Electric Vehicle conference, th...
Datum: 17.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
Relating anecdotes from the past, Kent Beck, the father of Extreme Programming and JUnit, reflects back on the impact his ideas have had in the last 20 years, especially with respect to the history of Test Driven Development (TDD), Design Patterns, and Extreme Programming (XP). According to him, goo...
Datum: 16.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 29.1 MB
Second Life is not a game - it is a social, interactive, 3D version of the Internet. In this talk from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Philip Rosedale, CEO and Founder of Linden Lab, discusses the implications of the virtual world Second Life, his company's move towards open source, a...
Datum: 15.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 8.9 MB
On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with W. David Stephenson, who reflects on how Web 2.0 technologies -- and mindsets -- are transforming the relationship between citizens and governments.
Datum: 14.08.2008 05:00 •
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In this special "developer edition" podcast, Jeff and the Stack Overflow development team discuss the development processes and decisions that go into building a public community web site for programmers.
Datum: 13.08.2008 05:00 •
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Independence Year is the year between the next two Independence Days. The fireworks began on July 4th, 2008 at iYear.US. Independence Year (iYear) is a new way to interact with your government at every level. It's where you can gather or join a crowd around your concerns. Britt Blaser, Doc Sear...
Datum: 12.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 24.7 MB
What is the impact of the world going on line? By any measure, it's huge. In order to thrive, argues MySQL's Marten Mickos, we must preserve two key types of freedom: the freedom to do things, and the freedoms that protect us. Highlighting key attributes of Ubuntu and MySQL that reflect ...
Datum: 11.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 13.8 MB
Maurice Franklin, a Microsoft software engineer who is passionate about the space elevator, recently organized and hosted a conference on that topic at Microsoft's Redmond conference center. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, Franklin discusses the reasons to build a space elevator,...
Datum: 08.08.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Ori and Rom Brafman, authors of "Sway," in which they discuss when and why people make irrational decisions.
Datum: 07.08.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Alan Lewis, CEO of Novocell, about yet another innovative new approach to treating diabetes: delivering insulin producing cells using a fine nano particle mesh.
Datum: 07.08.2008 05:00 •
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In this talk from the Emerging Communications Conference, Tim Panton of PhoneFromHere.com describes how social networks can be improved by appropriate integration of telephone services. His company makes it easy for users to embed phone services in web pages without any additional setup, and he sha...
Datum: 05.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 4.3 MB
Dale Dougherty, General Manager of the Maker Media Division of O'Reilly Media tells why he looked past the web and chose a printed format as the most compelling one through which to communicate to tech-savvy builders. His ventures, Make and Craft magazines, then formed a springboard for blogs, ...
Datum: 04.08.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 8.1 MB
As our lives increasingly straddle the physical and the virtual worlds, the management of identity becomes increasingly crucial from both a business and a social standpoint. John Clippinger, Kaliya Hamlin, and Reid Hoffman examine how online identity can foster relationships and deepen value creati...
Datum: 02.08.2008 05:00 •
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More than 1000 used computers will gain new life at Installfest at LinuxWorld, where volunteers will install new Linux and open source software over four days. The refurbished computers are donated to needy schools. Andrew Fife explains how it works, and how you can help this effort.
Datum: 01.08.2008 05:00 •
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Lee and Sachi are CommonCraft, the husband-and-wife company that produces short online videos which explain concepts like RSS, and applications like Twitter. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks LeFever about the elements of CommonCraft's distinctive style, the art...
Datum: 01.08.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Paul Swain, the inventor of the capsule you swallow; with a tiny little camera inside.
Datum: 31.07.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn checks in with Dr. Joshua Boger, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, who has made progress with rational drug design: how Vertex re-engineered their HIV/AIDS drug into one for Hepatitis C.
Datum: 31.07.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the perils of programmer design, the purpose of a private beta, the importance of quality chairs for programmers, and the mysterious cone of uncertainty on software projects.
Datum: 30.07.2008 05:00 •
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Eucalyptus (Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems) is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. Rich Wolski, the director of the project, joins Phil to discuss it. He talks about how Eucalyptus is co...
Datum: 29.07.2008 05:00 •
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Mark Rolston of Frog Design describes how technology is changing products from a single idea to a platform for other ideas. The most prominent example of this is the telephone, which has changed from being only about talking, into a multimedia tool and element of personal identity. From the O'...
Datum: 28.07.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 9.6 MB
Despite misconceptions to the contrary, early state AI systems are working in the real world and creating a lot of value for the companies that use them. Neil Jacobstein discusses practical uses of AI in many diverse industries and tasks. He compares the technology around early AI systems with the...
Datum: 26.07.2008 05:00 •
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Joshua Tauberer is the creator and operator of govtrack.us, a website that helps people track the activities of the U.S. Congress. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he discusses his ongoing efforts to acquire official information from various sources, provide useful tracking and analytical se...
Datum: 25.07.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with UCLA's Dr. Marco Iacoboni about mirror neurons: the cells in our brains which enable us to comprehend how others are feeling.
Datum: 24.07.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Stanford Law School's Lillick Professor Paul Goldstein, about his latest legal thriller: "A Patent Lie."
Datum: 24.07.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Colin Garner, CEO at Xceleron, about new technologies which would reduce the need for animal testing.
Datum: 24.07.2008 05:00 •
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It's the special listener question show! Joel and Jeff answer questions from the audience on making the transition from developer to manager, how to Get Things Done, the hidden value of in-person code reviews, and more.
Datum: 23.07.2008 05:00 •
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A year ago, Apple released the iPhone to both critical and consumer acclaim. On July 11, 2008, the company came out with an upgraded version that promised faster speeds as well as third party applications. Tech geek and blogger Robert Scoble joins Phil and Scott to discuss both the device itself, ...
Datum: 22.07.2008 05:00 •
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On this episode of IEEE Spectrum, learn about controlling a computer mouse by voice, a better alternative to electroshock therapy, and citizen clean water activism. A new software program designed to compliment voice recognition software lets users control a mouse by making vowel sounds and clicks....
Datum: 21.07.2008 05:00 •
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Lada Adamic, assistant professor at the University of Michigan, discusses the psychological impact of online social communication on individual behavior. She relates how information flow and information diffusion through the channels of online blogs, question and answer forums, and email communicati...
Datum: 19.07.2008 05:00 •
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Physician and medical informatician John Faughnan is an eclectic and engaging thinker and writer. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, he converses with host Jon Udell about the progress of knowledge representation and information exchange in the field of health care, and about personal st...
Datum: 18.07.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with William Gibson, author of the books "Neuromancer" and "Spook Country," about where we are headed in this post-internet age.
Datum: 17.07.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lee Goldstein, from Neuroptix Corporation, about a problem five million Americans cope with, and for which there is no definitive diagnostic test - until possibly now. Goldstein explains what we know today about Alzheimer's, and that which we didn't five year...
Datum: 17.07.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss hiding and disabling of menu items, whether conversational communication styles are destroying writing on the web, and the eternal flame of software engineering: the object to relational mapping problem.
Datum: 16.07.2008 05:00 •
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Scott Lemon is not happy with Firefox 3.0 and he, Ben, and Phil use his dissatisfaction to begin a discussion of browsers and other tech topics. Phil gives some statistics of browser usage on his blog Technometria, and they talk about Canvas (the HTML element, not the material), as well as a number...
Datum: 15.07.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 34 MB
At the Emerging Communications Conference 2008, Jonathan Christensen, General Manager of audio and video at Skype, speaks about the development of IP communications over the past 10 years, giving a brief history of VoIP. He talks about its evolution from being a technology for geeks only, to a mains...
Datum: 14.07.2008 05:00 •
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At the Tools of Change Conference 2007 Tim O'Reilly interviews Bruce Chizen, then CEO of Adobe Systems Inc., about the revolution in the publishing industry and Adobe's products. Through their publishing solutions, Adobe has a strong influence on both the print and online worlds. Listen to...
Datum: 12.07.2008 05:00 •
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On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with VisiCalc co-creator Dan Bricklin. They talk about one of the key challenges of capturing and publishing spoken-word audio: enabling non-experts to make good audio recordings. Discussed are tools and techniques for recording, a...
Datum: 11.07.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Carl Zimmer about Ecoli: the good, the bad, and the under appreciated.
Datum: 10.07.2008 05:00 •
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On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with BIO's Jim Greenwood, and Josh Boger from Vertex Pharmaceuticals during the anual International BIO Conference 2008.
Datum: 10.07.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Paul Tan, CEO of Living Cell Technologies, who have a new innovative approach to diabetes.
Datum: 10.07.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss whether or not Joel is a Kiwi, how to have a meaningful beta (with versioning, even), some techniques for building engaging social websites, revisit the classic 12 part Joel Test, and the amazing-- but all too short-- life of Alan Turing.
Datum: 09.07.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 30.6 MB
Puppet is an automated administrative engine for systems, performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification. Luke Kanies, who founded Reductive Labs, has been doing server automation for years, and Pupp...
Datum: 08.07.2008 05:00 •
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If you're a software developer, you probably already know who Steve Yegge is. Developers all over the world spend a lot of their time reading or commenting on his blog when they're not writing code. A senior software engineer at Google, an ex-Amazon employee, one of the most widely read bl...
Datum: 07.07.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Stephen Omohundro tells what characteristics a self improving artificial intelligence will need and how we can shape it to include human values. The economic rational theory that has trouble explaining many human actions is the key theory that will guide the actions of a self improving AI. He ...
Datum: 04.07.2008 05:00 •
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Rick Falkvinge is a Swedish politician who recently founded a new party. Its values include freedom, upholding laws, and rights to privacy. These may sound like safe and just laws - things that are constant and don't need defending; so what's jeopardizing them? According to Falkvinge, that...
Datum: 03.07.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss Macbook Air overheating and undervolting, constructive criticism, and engage in an extended discussion of Joel's management training program reading list. If you love classic books, this is the podcast you're looking for.
Datum: 02.07.2008 05:00 •
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Sony's Blu-Ray defeats HD-DVD, but will downloadable movies make that victory moot? On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, targeted trojan horse attacks are a growing security threat and have expanded the spyware vocabulary. Also, an interview with Ash Nehru of UnitedVisualArtists on their int...
Datum: 01.07.2008 05:00 •
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Cell phone handset manufacturers don't know what features future applications will use, and developers can't build those applications without having hardware support. In this talk from the Emerging Communications Conference, Michael Shiloh of OpenMoko tells how their open hardware platfor...
Datum: 30.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.4 MB
During the first stage of Linux, openness and a superior development methodology created a new technology product that changed the world. The next stage will be a battle between two platforms and ideologies, with Linux representing openness and Microsoft representing closedness. Jim Zemlin of the ...
Datum: 29.06.2008 05:00 •
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With the web upending traditional distribution models, publishers need to understand how their content is valued by the audience. In this talk, Jeff Patterson, CEO of Safari Books Online, shares research on the information seeking habits of their client base of IT professionals. As users weigh the ...
Datum: 28.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 10.4 MB
As macular degeneration erodes Susan Gerhart's vision, she's shifting into audio mode. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks about what she has learned about adaptive technologies, and ask her about her blog, As Your World
Changes.
Datum: 27.06.2008 05:00 •
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Attempting to predict how technology will impact business in the future, is a daunting task. However, with the Internet, many consider the rate of change too rapid to even accept the challenge. Still, there are precedents to understand hyper-change and guide our expectations. Controversial analysts ...
Datum: 26.06.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff try to avoid talking over each other while discussing data generation, full text searching, cross-site scripting, Markdown, Microsoft's Silverlight, and how to get a job at Fog Creek software.
Datum: 25.06.2008 05:00 •
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In a recent Business Week article, writer Olga Kharif discussed the changes to the mobile phone industry that will take place because of the iPhone. Brian Fling of Fling Media clearly agrees with Kharif's premise. In a discussion with Phil and Scott, he talks about his recent Web 2.0 Expo pre...
Datum: 24.06.2008 05:00 •
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We live in a world of cognitive biases and polarized opinions. We consider ourselves to be largely rational, yet we are often prone to systematic errors such as overconfidence, wishful thinking, and the attraction of strong opinions. This means decisions are often driven more by personalities and p...
Datum: 23.06.2008 05:00 •
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Jean-Claude Bradley, an associate professor of chemistry at Drexel University, is a pioneering practitioner of open notebook science. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, Bradley explains to host Jon Udell that he believes scientific research happens better and faster when the entire proce...
Datum: 20.06.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss the fine art of listening, source control, the risks of being an internal IT developer, and the state of current mobile platforms. Oh, and how to clean the toilet.
Datum: 19.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 30.9 MB
A high speed wireless network deployed throughout rural areas of San Diego county has changed both the quantity and quality of research done there. Most prominent is the repurposing of the Palomar telescope to rapidly respond to astronomical events. Following that is a review of some of the best t...
Datum: 18.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 9.5 MB
In this talk at the Emerging Communications Conference, Rich Miner, manager of the Wireless Platforms group at Google discusses the ways that increasing openness will bring an explosion of innovation in the mobile industry. Carriers, manufacturers, and software companies are beginning to open up th...
Datum: 17.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 17.6 MB
As we anticipate the possibility of a coming singularity, we ask "What shall our investments bet on and how will the financial climate differ?" Peter Thiel, investor and cofounder of PayPal, however, has a different view. He argues that singularity-like behavior is already here - as seen ...
Datum: 16.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 9.2 MB
Mark Shuttleworth began Ubuntu in 2004 with a dedicated group of developers intent on creating a revolutionary new Linux desktop. Now, many in the Linux community are calling it the Linux desktop for real people. After three years of phenomenal growth, Shuttleworth sat down with Tim O'Reilly at...
Datum: 14.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
David Mindell of MIT shares his experience with reading Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow. The novel, which tells the story of the design, manufacture, and use of the German V-2 rockets in World War II, shows the fruits of a complicated technical endeavor and contains symbols ...
Datum: 13.06.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Rick Smolan, author of "America at Home," who tried to capture how Americans live through pictures of their homes.
Datum: 12.06.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Peter Lee, CEO of UniServices, about the computers which model biology, some of which has reached all the way to Hollywood.
Datum: 12.06.2008 05:00 •
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Joel and Jeff discuss Apple's WWDC (and the correct pronunciation of OS X), the use of JavaScript on modern web sites, affiliate programs, and much more.
Datum: 11.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 29.6 MB
On the fifth anniversary of IT Conversations, founder Doug Kaye joins Phil to discuss the past, present, and future of both IT Conversations and the Conversations Network. He reviews the technical aspects of how shows are assembled and also assesses the challenges with trying to produce quality pro...
Datum: 10.06.2008 05:00 •
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Despite the increased visibility that the Web provides, many small businesses would rather receive a phone call from a customer than a page view or an email address. Irv Shapiro of IfByPhone demonstrates powerful, easy to create telephone services that take advantage of the ubiquity of telephones.
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Datum: 09.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with biologist and author Stuart Kauffman, about his latest book "Reinventing the Sacred," which discusses a new way to look at science, the universe, and the mystery of life.
Datum: 07.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 17.8 MB
On this edition of Bio-Issue of the Week, Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan discuss some interesting news from the United States' Food and Drug Administration. The US Congress believes the FDA is underfunded, but why might it need more money?
Datum: 07.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 5.1 MB
Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis are co-authors (with Hal Abelson) of the forthcoming book "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion." All three authors are veteran information technologists. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks...
Datum: 06.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 24.5 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with psychiatry lecturer and author Charles Barber, who recently wrote "Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation." She asks him why Americans account for two thirds of the anti-depressant drug market.
Datum: 05.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with media futurist Gerd Leonhard about the next stage of online music, and asks him to give a peek into the future of online media distribution.
Datum: 05.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: unbekannt
Phil and Scott discuss the recent Telecosm 2008 conference, where attendees debated, discussed, decoded and deciphered the digital and communications technologies and policies vital to the build-out of the global Internet infrastructure. They also talk about a number of other topics, including Goog...
Datum: 04.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 22.9 MB
In the first episode hosted by the IT Conversations, Joel and Jeff discuss Joel's keynote address at the recent Rails conference, the attitudes of some of those who don't use Macs, and Clay Shirky's recent book, "Here Comes Everybody".
Datum: 04.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 31.2 MB
During past few years we have witnessed a drastic reduction in competition for network services in the US. David Isenberg, author of the essay "The Rise of the Stupid Network", a paper that shook the telecom world in 1997 and continues to have an impact today, puts the blame squarely on de...
Datum: 04.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 6.4 MB
The Connected Innovators program showcases emerging technologies and new business ideas likely to make an impact on the networked future. After a competitive application process, Supernova's Kevin Werbach and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington invite a dozen top company leaders on stage to pre...
Datum: 03.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 48.2 MB
In this talk from the Ubuntu Live conference, Chris Kenyon of Canonical discusses the values of the Ubuntu project, the role of Canonical in promoting those values, and the importance of cultivating a partner ecosystem. What is already a successful project with millions of users and tens of thousan...
Datum: 02.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 10.9 MB
As the Geospatial Web evolves from two dimensions to 3-D we are seeing a host of rich new applications and uses appear. Six leaders in the field talk about the Geospatial web and 3-D applications, and how their individual organizations fit into the 3-D puzzle. Ranging from Tele-Atlas' creation ...
Datum: 01.06.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 19.1 MB
John Buckman founded Lyris, an email list management company, and more recently Magnatune, an online music service that uses Creative Commons licenses and pays artists 50% of its revenue. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Buckman about the common thread to his passio...
Datum: 30.05.2008 05:00 •
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Phil, Ben, and Scott are joined by Tyler Whitaker to discuss some of their current projects and activities. They first talk about alternate uses of mobile phones and how cellphone usage in other countries is quite similar to the United States. Scott then talks about the status of his work with Ast...
Datum: 28.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 28.6 MB
The goal of Artificial General Intelligence is to create a machine with the abilities to learn, use common sense, and solve general problems. And it must do this better than humans. Peter Voss has been working in AGI since the 90s and in 2001 started Adaptive A.I. Inc. specifically to develop a comm...
Datum: 27.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 10.3 MB
In this panel discussion from the Emerging Communications Conference, experts from wireless carriers, application developers, and entrepreneurs discuss the potential, and the obstacles to wireless innovation. They present a range of viewpoints on topics from open networks to software for handsets.
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Datum: 26.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 40.1 MB
Greg Wilson recently gave a talk entitled High-Performance Computing Considered Harmful. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, Wilson explains why HPC can't be all about speed and power. Instead, we must also care, more than we have in the past, about human productivity, correctness, a...
Datum: 23.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 16.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Steve Cone about his new book "Power Lines," in which he writes about words that sell, grip fans and sometimes change history.
Datum: 22.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 11.4 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Bio-Link's Director, Dr. Elaine Johnson, about the easiest way to get a career in biotech.
Datum: 22.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 10.7 MB
The explosion of free user generated content on the internet is both a threat and an opportunity to the traditional publishing industry. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, tells how his new company Wikia will "fill in the rest of the library" around the Wikipedia. Wikia is a collection o...
Datum: 21.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 10.3 MB
Software concurrency is hard to get right, and the main tools programmers have to deal with it are over 30 years old. Simon Peyton-Jones of Microsoft Research discusses a new technique called Transactional Memory that is simple to program and removes many of the possibilities for error inherent in ...
Datum: 20.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
Reconstruction of the electric grid in Iraq is seen as the most important project in that country. Over $60 billion have been pledged, but even three years after the end of the war, there is still a long ways to go. IEEE Spectrum executive editor Glenn Zorpette discusses the progress and challenges...
Datum: 19.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 23 MB
Mathematician, magician and lightening fast human calculator Arthur Benjamin delights and amazes the Etech crowd with some stunning numerical acrobatics. In an interactive, high energy performance, he demonstrates and explains the secrets of rapid mental calculation, providing a fascinating window ...
Datum: 17.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 28.9 MB
Shan Carter and Gabriel Dance create interactive graphics and multimedia for the New York Times. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks them to explain how some of their favorite projects were done, and discuss how these online tools enhance and contextualize the stories ...
Datum: 16.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 26.4 MB
An esteemed and historic group of Internet professionals debates a compelling question: "Does the Net Need an Upgrade?" For some the answer seems elusive. What does it mean to upgrade something when it is in a constant state of change? For others, there are clear signals that strike at the...
Datum: 15.05.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Tom Hayes, author of "Jump Point," about how network culture is revolutionizing business in Silicon Valley.
Datum: 15.05.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan interview Ian Wilmut, of the Scottish Center for Regenerative Medicine, and ask him about the progress which has been made since they cloned Dolly.
Datum: 15.05.2008 05:00 •
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In his recent presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Adam Jacob talked about why a start-up needs an automated infrastructure. He covered the components necessary for any automated infrastructure to be successful and also presented use-cases. Along with Jesse Robbins, Adam joins Phil a...
Datum: 13.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 26.3 MB
According to Yale University Professor Charles Perrow, it is time to start learning from recent natural disasters in the United States like Hurricane Katrina. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, Perrow asserts that instead of simply responding to natural disasters, we should be reducing our vuln...
Datum: 12.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 9.4 MB
MapQuest is one of the four leading map publishers on the Web. As part of its market research, the company conducted a customer survey on the Geo community with the aim of finding out what users truly want, as opposed to what they get. James Greiner, the company's Vice President and General Man...
Datum: 10.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 5.1 MB
Lucas Gonze founded the playlist-sharing site webjay.org, and currently leads the development of the Yahoo! Media Player. He's also an amateur guitarist who records and performs 19th-century parlour music. In this wide-ranging conversation on Interviews with Innovators with Jon Udell, Gonze ref...
Datum: 09.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 27.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan host a panel at the seventh annual Bio-IT World Conference on Changing Biotech.
Datum: 08.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 22 MB
The first generation of Open Source has been a wild ride unimaginable at the time it began. But Mitch Kapor, President of the Open Source Applications Foundation and chair of the Mozilla Foundation, thinks the end is not in sight and that we can influence the future of Open Source by our actions an...
Datum: 07.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 10.5 MB
Phil, Ben, and Scott discuss recent technology conferences. Phil talks about his visit to China for WWW2008, while Scott reports on the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The group also has time to review other topics, including Wii remote programming using Java, using a cellphone to control re...
Datum: 06.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 23.6 MB
In contrast to the simplicity and ubiquity of the Web, developing telephony applications is complicated. RJ Auburn of Voxeo tells how their network interconnection stack will make it easier for developers to create new and creative telecommunications applications and gives a demo of how simple it i...
Datum: 05.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7.5 MB
Many of the current attributes of Web 2.0 were first exposed in work done on Wall Street. Bill Janeway and Peter Blook, two Wall Street veterans, discuss some of the changes that have taken place over the last three decades in the investment banking and trading industries, like the shift from sales...
Datum: 03.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 13.1 MB
Janis Dickinson directs the citizen science program at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators with Jon Udell she discusses the lab's various projects. One of them, eBird, is an online system that gathers bird observations from recreational and pr...
Datum: 02.05.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of "Physics of the Impossible" about the improbable, and the very likely in the near future: phasers, force fields and time travel.
Datum: 01.05.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 14.5 MB
Tim O'Reilly is known and respected in the technology community as a successful prognosticator of future trends. In 2004 he began referring to a variety of converging Internet trends as Web 2.0. While the phrase quickly became a lightening rod for attention and criticism, many believe that it a...
Datum: 30.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 11.6 MB
Enterprise social software is a term describing social software used in businesses and other enterprises. It includes such tools as blogging, people search, social network analysis, tagging, wiki, and collaboration/groupware. Christian Gray and Craig Honick join Phil and Scott to discuss their rese...
Datum: 29.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 22.3 MB
In this philosophical discussion of principle and policy, Eben Moglen talks about the essence of GPLv3 and argues we've wasted the last ten years talking about open source without talking enough about freedom. There's a lot of work to be done on the distortion of the software market, preve...
Datum: 28.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 14.1 MB
Raymond Yee is a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Information and the author of "Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services." On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Yee about teaching students how to work with existing data sources, and on ways to ...
Datum: 25.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 19 MB
Despite amazing strides, computers are still relatively poor at performing high level activities that come naturally to the human brain. Co-founder of Palm, Inc., Jeff Hawkins, describes recent breakthroughs in the modeling of brain functions based on the theory of Hierarchical Temporal Memory. New...
Datum: 24.04.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Mary Roach, author of "Bonk," and asks her how it is science and scientists go about the subject of human sexuality.
Datum: 24.04.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Herbert Hauptman, Nobel Laureate and mathematician, and asks how he and Dr. Jerome Karle opened a new era in research using data from crystallized material research.
Datum: 24.04.2008 05:00 •
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There has been a lot of talk about the difficulties of parallel programming, but Intel has decided to do something about it. Intel representatives announce the open sourcing of Threading Building Blocks, a product used to simplify parallel development. TBB has been around for several years as a pr...
Datum: 21.04.2008 05:00 •
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Quakr is building an on-line virtual world from user contributed photographs and metadata. Developer Peter Arbuthnott shares the inspirations for this project, and leads a whirlwind tour of its most compelling features. Given the converging advances in camera and geolocation technologies, and the ...
Datum: 19.04.2008 05:00 •
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Deepak Singh is one of a new breed of life scientists who are bringing Web 2.0 methods to the practice of science. He co-founded BioScreencast.com, a site where scientists share screencasts that illustrate how they use bioinformatics software tools.
Datum: 18.04.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Journalist Wagner Au, who embedded himself in the virtual 3D online world, Second Life, and talks about its incredible growth.
Datum: 17.04.2008 05:00 •
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There appear to be a 170 million people in the world with Hepatitis C, and most people don't know they have it. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. David Spencer, from Biolex Therapeutics, and asks him how so many people could have Hepatitis C and not even know it.
Datum: 17.04.2008 05:00 •
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Developers are increasingly using Amazon, not only as a source of technical books, but also as a web services platform to build robust and scalable infrastructure. Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, reveals how to make the most of the popular S3 service and uncovers some of the features underpinning the new...
Datum: 16.04.2008 05:00 •
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Ben Galbraith returns as co-host of Technometria and it gives Phil and Scott the chance to chat with him about recent travels and projects. Scott discusses his disappointing trip to the CTIA Wireless Conference. The group also discusses the iPhone and other current issues related to mobile devices. ...
Datum: 15.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 23.7 MB
On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, class A ranked chess player Paul Hoffman talks about his new book "King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game." Hoffman also discusses how he has been involved with chess, from playing in competitions, to using ches...
Datum: 14.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 11.1 MB
Mike Liebhold has a dream -- a dream of a decentralized mobile web consisting of a mesh of distributed ad hoc networks. Realizing this dream could unleash a wave of creativity and new services, but there are powerful business imperatives holding it back. Is there a way out of this dilemma? Mike thin...
Datum: 12.04.2008 05:00 •
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Anthony Ravitz, Project Coordinator for Real Estate & Workplace Services at Google, talks about some initiatives undertaken at the company to foster a healthy and productive workspace. In particular, he focuses on the steps Google took in setting up solar power that it believes will last for dec...
Datum: 11.04.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Scott Sigler, who talks about his bioterror thriller "Infected." While it's based on the premise of a biological weapon on the loose, he's actually a modern day Charles Dickens.
Datum: 10.04.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Newsweek's Technology Editor Steven Levy, about the best technology writing of 2007, and how to submit your own work for 2008.
Datum: 10.04.2008 05:00 •
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KC Claffy, the Principal Investigator and founder of Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), draws attention to a critical problem of the Internet. Maintenance of the robustness and stability of this critical communications infrastructure requires analysis of its performance metr...
Datum: 09.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 7 MB
In his long career as a technology journalist, Larry Magid has written on many contemporary issues. He is also an expert on child online safety, particularly as it relates to social networking. He joins Phil and Scott to discuss his activities in making the internet less harmful for young people....
Datum: 08.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 27 MB
Technology is becoming more entrenched in every part of our life, and we need to be aware of where that might lead us. Jamais Cascio gives four possible scenarios based on whether technology is used to augment or simulate reality and whether it is internally or externally focused. Because of the h...
Datum: 07.04.2008 05:00 •
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Phil Libin was the CEO of CoreStreet when he appeared as the first guest on Interviews with Innovators. Now he's back as CEO of EverNote, a company that aims to build the memex, or personal outboard memory, that Vannevar Bush famously imagined in his 1945 article "As We May Think."
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Datum: 04.04.2008 05:00 •
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Today a complement of new energy technologies exist, but are they economically feasible? Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, from the Environmental Defence Fund, about their new book, "Earth: The Sequel."
Datum: 03.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 10 MB
The incidence of cancer today is vastly greater than a hundred years ago. To find out why, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Devra Davis, of the Center for Environmental Oncology, and author of "The Secret History of the War on Cancer."
Datum: 03.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 12.9 MB
Matt Zimmerman delivers exactly what his title promises: a technical roadmap of where Ubuntu has been and where it is going. He discusses the collaborative development process, an overview of past and future releases, the expansion of Ubuntu from the desktop to server and mobile environments, and wh...
Datum: 02.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 9.5 MB
In this edition of Technometria, Phil and Scott talk to Joseph Smarr, the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo. Plaxo makes great use of AJAX in its product offerings and the conversation centers on techniques for overcoming cross-site scripting limitations along with performance considerations for We...
Datum: 01.04.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 27.8 MB
Over the last year or two, the Geoweb has graduated from something that was off the side, to being at the centre of attention. In this presentation, John Hanke, Director, Google Earth & Google Maps, and Bernhard Seefeld, Geo Software Engineer at Google, open the lid on some of Google's new ...
Datum: 31.03.2008 05:00 •
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As high quality spectrum is repurposed after the digital TV transition, what is the best way to ensure fair network access and promote innovation in this valuable new space? US Department of Commerce technology policy expert John Kneuer argues that market forces, not government regulation, are most...
Datum: 19.03.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 11.5 MB
Bruce Sterling suggested the creation of a new type of technological device, called "spime", that through pervasive RFID communications and GPS navigation can track its history and interact with the world. OpenSpime, a project of WideTag Inc., enables individuals and corporations to better...
Datum: 18.03.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 28.2 MB
In the quest for an artificial general intelligence (AGI), researchers should model their approach on human developmental psychology and neurobiology. Sam Adams of IBM Research led the development of an experimental AGI that would learn based on experience, bootstrap a mental model of itself and it...
Datum: 17.03.2008 05:00 •
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Doug announces a major new feature: the SmartPlaylist Manager. Now you can customize your Personal Playlist to receive and hear only the programs you select by keyword, series or channel. If you're a paid member, your Personal Playlist will automatically include the Premium Edition versions of ...
Datum: 16.03.2008 05:00 •
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Extensions are small plug-ins that add functionality to Firefox, ranging from simple toolbar buttons to completely new features. In this panel discussion, strategists from Mozilla and two companies who've built successfully on the Firefox platform share their perspectives on the mutual benefit...
Datum: 15.03.2008 05:00 •
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On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with wiki inventor Ward Cunningham, who discusses the two most recent phases of his career. At the Eclipse Foundation in 2006, he pioneered a transformative new approach to making software-supported business processes transparently...
Datum: 14.03.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, about the origin of CAPTCHAs on the internet - those squiggly series of letters which help us prove we are human.
Datum: 13.03.2008 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Terry Collins about endocrine disruptors, and a new technique used to take minute traces of these materials out of our drinking water.
Datum: 13.03.2008 05:00 •
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On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Avid Biotics' CEO Dave Martin, one of the many people looking to find solutions to rapidly rising staph infections.
Datum: 13.03.2008 05:00 •
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Although Java remains one of the world's most popular development platforms, Ruby and Rails are picking up on a steep upward curve. Why then, should Sun shower its love on Ruby? In this keynote presentation, Tim Bray, the Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, covers a broad range of...
Datum: 12.03.2008 05:00 •
Größe: 28.5 MB
Phil Windley regularly holds CTO meetings where IT professionals discuss current events in technology. In this show he talks with four individuals who work in and write about computing. The group reviews the current status of Twitter, whether companies are using blogging in useful ways, and other ...
Datum: 11.03.2008 05:00 •
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On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio: Energy and power. Hear how a Swedish energy company is burning Germany's dirtiest coal with clean emissions and testing a new way to reduce greenhouse gas. Learn how Google is using sunshine to power their search engine. Discover a car in Brazil that can ...
Datum: 10.03.2008 05:00 •
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"Practice safe VoIP," is Dan York's appeal to the new entrants in the digital telephony landscape. In a spicy, fictional anecdote, CISSP's Director of Emerging Communication Technology cleverly reveals the possible security vulnerabilities VoIP networks are amenable to. Like all ...
Datum: 08.03.2008 06:00 •
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Michael Lenczner is one of the founders of Ile Sans Fil, Montreal's community wireless network which comprises over 150 hotspots and serves almost 60,000 registered users. By any standards the project is a huge success. On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Lenczner...
Datum: 07.03.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Jigsaw's CEO, Jim Fowler, about keeping an online, global directory with millions of business contacts up to date.
Datum: 06.03.2008 06:00 •
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On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with InterMune's CEO, Daniel Welch, about bringing their innovative therapies for Hepatitis C and Osteoporosis to market.
Datum: 06.03.2008 06:00 •
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WiMAX, a new wireless broadband standard, is coming, and the buzz is growing. How is it different from what is available today, and where will it take wireless broadband in the future? These and other questions are answered by Tim Sanders, a leading industry expert and champion for this new wireless...
Datum: 05.03.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 11.9 MB
As more companies examine the issue of environmentally friendly products, it is not surprising that the concept of green computing would grow in importance. IT professionals are examining power consumption, the hazardous materials used in manufacturing computers, as well as how best to recycle olde...
Datum: 04.03.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 24 MB
Raph Koster, author of the book "A Theory of Fun for Game Design", describes the grammar of fun. He gives a checklist of ways to make social media more fun based on his work in online games. Most important is to give users context and feedback for every action they take, and that fun com...
Datum: 03.03.2008 06:00 •
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In the last few years, telephony prices have dropped to ridiculously low levels and today, one doesn't need a telephone instrument to receive or make calls. Personal services are disappearing from the landscape while technology rapidly replaces them, albeit with a divide between what a customer...
Datum: 01.03.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
Adrian Holovaty recently launched EveryBlock.com, a service that generalizes ChicagoCrime.org's style of hyperlocal news to other cities and to a broader range of data types. Six months into a two-year project funded by a Knight Foundation grant, he discusses EveryBlock's accomplishments a...
Datum: 29.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 19 MB
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Genomic Health's President Kim Popovits, about the importance of diagnostics: matching particular cancers to effective therapies.
Datum: 28.02.2008 06:00 •
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Matt Webb is a technology consultant, designer, and principal in the design firm Schulze & Webb. In an engaging and entertaining presentation, he explains how internet concepts can transcend the realm of pixels to inspire new products that will meet the expectations of a creative and networked g...
Datum: 27.02.2008 06:00 •
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In its short history, the Nintendo Wii has become one of the most popular game consoles available. In particular, its remote controller is sophisticated, containing a number of input devices that outperform regular personal computers. Johnny Lee, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University is...
Datum: 26.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 25.3 MB
On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, Suzan Hassler looks at the evolution of the vibrator from its initial use as therapy for hysteria, to today's more infamous role in human sexuality. Also learn about a revolutionary home energy generation solution that offers hope in the battle against cl...
Datum: 25.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 11.5 MB
From the Tech Nation archives: the 1993 interview with Sir Edmund Hillary, who together with Tenzing Norgay in 1953 was first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Datum: 24.02.2008 06:00 •
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Valdis Krebs has been mapping and analyzing social networks for over 20 years. He doubts that Facebook and LinkedIn will survive in their current form, because they require us to connect within artificial environments. But he sees them as stepping stones to a world in which technology and sociology ...
Datum: 22.02.2008 06:00 •
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No, this is not about Harry Potter, but danah boyd (who spells her name without capital letters) borrows the terms "wizards" and "muggles" to describe the relationship between the tech industry and real world users. This lively presentation discusses how the wizards of technology...
Datum: 21.02.2008 06:00 •
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OpenDNS is the world's largest and fastest-growing DNS service. The service is used by hundreds of thousands of schools, businesses and homes as they navigate the Internet, blocking phishing sites and also the power to block adult sites, proxies and individual domains. David Ulevitch, the comp...
Datum: 20.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 24.2 MB
Human interaction is driving POTS to PANS^2. Motorola's Dr. John Waclowsky takes a big-picture look at what is happening in the world of telecommunication technology, how the technology evolution is changing the way people interact on a daily basis, and what impact this has on the telecommunica...
Datum: 19.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 12 MB
How does Google come up with meaningful search results for a query like "B&B AB"? It's harder than you might think. Udi Manber, who heads the core search group at Google, discusses the challenges of interpreting queries and how Google handles them. This entertaining talk has plen...
Datum: 18.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Neil Shubin, provost of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He describes our 'inner fish,' a journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the human body.
Datum: 16.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 10.1 MB
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn takes a look at the state of BioTech in the world's largest BioTech cluster - the San Francisco bay area - together with BayBIO's Matt Gardner.
Datum: 16.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 9.8 MB
Dr. Joel Selanikio is the co-founder of DataDyne, a non-profit consultancy dedicated to improving the quantity and quality of public health data. He works mainly in developing countries where the dominant computer is the cellphone, and the dominant network protocol is SMS, a phenomenon that he calls...
Datum: 15.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 15.1 MB
Adobe's Apollo is a cross-platform runtime that allows a user to run a Web application on his desktop. Isn't that what a Web browser already does? But Apollo can work offline. You disconnect from the Internet and you are still able to use the Web application. It detects the presence of a n...
Datum: 14.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 12.5 MB
How close are we to the era where intelligent machines will make decisions for us? As systems become ever more autonomous, machine decisions may outstrip our ability to predict them, creating the need for an artificial morality. Yale bioethicist Wendell Wallach takes the role of friendly skeptic i...
Datum: 13.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 16.4 MB
eComm is a brand new telecom event for those interested in radical innovation and seizing the next opportunity wave. The initial keynote speech will be given by Jonathan Christensen, General Manager, Audio & Video, for Skype. Lee Dryburgh, founder of eComm Media, talks with Jonathan in prepara...
Datum: 12.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 12.6 MB
Ruby on Rails is planting the seeds of a much needed paradigm shift in Web application development. Real enterprises are now using Rails to quickly get their new ideas out to the market. Cyndi Mitchell, Vice President of Strategy at ThoughtWorks Studios, talks about the ways in which ThoughtWorks St...
Datum: 11.02.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and author of "Creating a World Without Poverty."
Datum: 09.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 19.3 MB
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks David Ewing Duncan, who looks at a new report on the state of the United States' Food and Drug Administration.
Datum: 09.02.2008 06:00 •
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Bill Buxton, a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, is the author of Sketching User Experience. In this conversation he talks about design thinking -- a way of producing, illustrating, and winnowing ideas about how products could work.
Datum: 08.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 22.1 MB
Ubuntu users and developers are passionate about it, almost on a religious level. Matt Asay describes the ten commandments of open source and how they relate to Ubuntu. He presents his points with examples from both the open source community in general and Ubuntu in particular. Matt's overvi...
Datum: 07.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 8.1 MB
Technical skill is just one piece of the open source consulting puzzle. Business skills are also crucial. Will Glass-Husain puts it all together in this popular tutorial on running a successful software consultancy. Combining business philosophy with practical tips and case studies, he highlights pr...
Datum: 06.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 19.8 MB
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. It is also one of the hottest websites in today's world, and is having a major impact on career and business. Jesse Stay, co-author of the upcoming book "I'm on Facebook--N...
Datum: 05.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 25.6 MB
At British Telecom, VoIP technology and the Internet are seen to provide some exciting opportunities to grow new business models. Jerry Thompson, Chief of Applications at British Telecom, talks about BT's transition from being a traditional voice-based telecommunications enterprise to a VoIP-ba...
Datum: 04.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 5.6 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Harvard professor Steven Pinker, who talks about how words relate to thinking, and how they also don't.
Datum: 02.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 13.5 MB
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Pere-Joan Cardona who talks about a new treatment for tuberculosis - important as over 2 and a half billion people are infected.
Datum: 02.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 4.6 MB
ITConversations executive producer Phil Windley, who teaches computer science at Brigham Young University, has worked with students to develop a general framework for online reputation. In this conversation with Jon Udell he discusses the goals and status of the project, and explores ways in which o...
Datum: 01.02.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 17 MB
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Hugh Forrest, Director of Events fo...
Datum: 30.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 12.4 MB
More and more Web sites are being rewritten as Ajax applications and traditional desktop software is rapidly moving to the Web via Ajax. But, often, this transition is being made with reckless disregard for security. Ajax developers desperately need guidance on securing their applications. Billy Ho...
Datum: 29.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 31.6 MB
When the marginal cost of producing something tends to zero, the smart thing to do is to treat it as zero and get ahead of the competition: give it away for free in order to sell something else. You can build whole businesses around giving stuff away for free. Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wire...
Datum: 28.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 13.7 MB
Stefano Mazzocchi, the creator of Apache Cocoon, is now an MIT research scientist working on SIMILE, a series of projects that take a pragmatic, grassroots approach to bootstrapping the semantic web. The SIMILE team has learned that you can't mandate coherence. But when people can create and mi...
Datum: 25.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 18.5 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Kao, the former Harvard Business School professor who believes America is losing its innovative edge.
Datum: 24.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 15 MB
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Don Debethizy, from Targacept, about our brains and how we can design molecules to directly affect them. On the Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan talks about the technological breakthroughs thanks to treating battlefield injuries.
Datum: 24.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 3.9 MB
Jeff Jonas of IBM explains enterprise intelligence by using his experience providing security in the gambling industry. When data is kept in separate silos, important connections can be overlooked. Jeff outlines the method he uses to manage connections in multiple large datasets.
Datum: 23.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 9.3 MB
OpenIDDevCamp was a gathering to develop web-based applications that use OpenID. Attendees included web designers, developers and testers all working together over the weekend to enable OpenID on their sites or just learn more about this technology. Scott joined Phil to discus the event as well as...
Datum: 22.01.2008 06:00 •
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Imagine yourself midway through your career. Now imagine that you're successful but emotionally unsatisfied with what you are doing. What do you do? In another episode of Cooking with IEEE Spectrum, Suzan Hassler speaks with Menelio Griffith to learn how he faced just such a situation and decid...
Datum: 21.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 9.6 MB
Topix.net is a local news aggregation website programmed a high degree of geo-sophistication. It serves over 32,500 communities with local news by aggregating news from all over the world, analysing the feed with a complex set of algorithms to determine the area the news relates to, down to the zip ...
Datum: 19.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 7.3 MB
IBM researchers Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg are the creators of Many Eyes, a new kind of social website dedicated to data visualization and analysis. Members upload batches of data - about politics, weather, or anything else - then chart, interpret, discuss, and even re-visualize one anoth...
Datum: 18.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 17.2 MB
On BioTech Nation all about biotech and wallabies. On Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan breaks the news which may take the controversy out of stem cell research.
Datum: 17.01.2008 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Dr. Fritjof Capra, about "The Science of Leonardo - Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance."
Datum: 17.01.2008 06:00 •
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has always been the place where companies announced and demonstrated the newest gadgets and electronic devices. Phil and Scott are joined by three attendees, Brad Baldwin, Scott Barlow, and Randall Bennett, to discuss some of the products. They talk about visual...
Datum: 15.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 18 MB
From the start, phones have been a point-to-point communication method: pick up the receiver, dial a number, hope for an answer. Jyri Engestrom's microblogging app, Jaiku, changes all that by interfacing your mobile phone with pervasive internet connectivity. What we get is a handset that is us...
Datum: 14.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 6.1 MB
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Stuart Smolkin's conveyor belt manufacturing company, Intralox, had no disaster plan in place. Although central operations weren't decimated, the company had to deal with the disruption of electricity, phones, and computer systems in order to organiz...
Datum: 13.01.2008 06:00 •
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Neil Giarratana, president of a small web software firm called Lucidus, is bucking a demographic trend. According to the United Nations, 2007 was the tipping point for world urbanization, and migration to big cities is expected to be a huge continuing trend in the 21st century. But Neil moved from F...
Datum: 11.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 13 MB
The O'Reilly Media founder and CEO presents one of his regular Radar updates, with the focus this time squarely on open source software. The world in which open source now operates is very different from the world in which it started. O'Reilly believes that the problems of scaling caused ...
Datum: 09.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 10.1 MB
In this talk, Giovanni Gallucci, a search engine optimization and social media expert, a speaker, blogger and co-founder of Dexterity Media, spills out the secrets of a successful online marketing philosophy that leverages the communal strength of social networks such as MySpace, Facebook, etc. He c...
Datum: 09.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 19.2 MB
Day in and day out, we are all actors in some sort of economy, be it local or global. With the advent of the Internet, we are also becoming more involved in e-commerce when we buy goods or services on-line. In this talk, a panel consisting of Ge Jin, Max Levchin, Andrea Matwyshyn, Elliot Noss and El...
Datum: 07.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 22.4 MB
In a keynote presentation from the 2007 O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, Brian Murray, Group President for HarperCollins Publishers, provides a textbook business strategy analysis of dealing with rapid change. During his presentation, Murray provides details of the 6 step pro...
Datum: 04.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 12.9 MB
Phil regularly holds a meeting that he calls the CTO Breakfast. It is an opportunity for people who work in technology to discuss current issues. In this episode, Phil holds an online version of the meeting. The group review such topics as the recently released Amazon SimpleDB, MIT's open co...
Datum: 03.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 28.2 MB
In this extremely funny RailsConf keynote, performer and consultant Ze Frank radiates the quirky energy and hip creativity of new media and the interactive web. Riffing on everything from nonsensical airline safety cards to the creation of an Earth sandwich, Frank combines storytelling, social comme...
Datum: 02.01.2008 06:00 •
Größe: 29.8 MB
Science fiction has had tangible impact on the actual course of science and engineering. Donna Shirley, who works at NASA's Mars Exploration Program, was one such engineer affected by "The Sands of Mars", by Arthur C. Clarke. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, Shirley talks about...
Datum: 31.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 4.8 MB
As consumers continue to adopt using media on demand, developers are working to come up with tools that allow computer users to access material. Deeje Cooley, product manager for Adobe, joins Phil and Scott to discuss the Adobe Media Player (AMP), which allows a user to watch their favorite shows, ...
Datum: 28.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 26.1 MB
In mid 2006, YouTube served approximately 100 million videos in a single day. To maintain a website of that scale, one would imagine YouTube has hundreds of DBAs. But in fact, there are just three people that make it all work. Paul Tuckfield, the MySQL DBA at YouTube shares horror stories about scal...
Datum: 27.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 18.9 MB
Can consumers and social networkers trust the security and privacy of information they share on line? How can companies manage their brands to earn customer confidence? Lise Buyer moderates this astute panel of experts from business, the law and academia as they look at what it means to be trustwor...
Datum: 26.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 20.4 MB
Richard Wallis is a technology evangelist for Talis, a UK-based provider of library systems which has chosen to base its next-generation platform on semantic web technologies. The company doesn't talk about its mission in those terms, though. In a white paper, it describes the mission of the ne...
Datum: 21.12.2007 06:00 •
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Yale professor Ian Ayres speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn and talks about who's looking at what numbers and making decisions which affect us.
Datum: 20.12.2007 06:00 •
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On BioTech Nation, Dr. Ana Benavides from PharmaMar looks to the ocean for potential cures for cancer. And on the Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan reports on the latest crop of firms decoding your DNA on the Internet.
Datum: 20.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
Information processing is integrated into everyday objects, and the metaphor 'desktop' is obsolete. This post-desktop model of computing is known as 'Ubiquitous Computing', or UbiComp, in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) jargon. Mike Kuniavsky, the co-founder and Principal of...
Datum: 19.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 17.1 MB
Zope is a high-performance application/Web server, content management system. It is a complete, robust, scalable solution. Rob Page, CEO and President of Zope Corporation, joins Phil and Scott to discuss the status of Zope, as well as the company. He reviews the background of the system, including w...
Datum: 18.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 24.5 MB
Finding a job right out of high school may get a whole lot harder in the not too distant future. In this talk, Barney Pell, CEO of Powerset, discusses the current and future states of general artificial intelligence, which could be programmed to learn as humans do and adapt to different environments...
Datum: 17.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 13.7 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michael Krasny, the host of KQED's award-winning Forum program. They talk about the essential need to cover science and technology in all programming.
Datum: 15.12.2007 06:00 •
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On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn looks at a condition which afflicts 3-to-5% of Americans, and 90% of those affected are women. Fred Dechow, of Mediquest, explains Raynaud's, and that if you have it, you know how painful it can be.
Datum: 15.12.2007 06:00 •
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Exponential growth, evolutionary change and the economics of supply and demand combine to create interesting patterns that continually reshape technology. In this panel discussion, Greg Papadopolous, CTO at Sun, IBM's Irving Wladawsky-Berger and Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures explore ...
Datum: 14.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 30.6 MB
Everyone is leaving an electronic slime trail behind them on the internet, according to Bob Lucky. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, Bob Lucky shares his thoughts on the records we're all creating on the internet, and Spectrum takes a look at the Homebrew Computer Club's illegitimate...
Datum: 12.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 7.6 MB
Nike has traveled the full range of the corporate responsibility movement, from the campaigning days when it was a poster child for all things to do with poor working conditions through the era of multi-stakeholder partnerships. Nike has now moved into the next phase, where corporate responsibility ...
Datum: 12.12.2007 06:00 •
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In his book, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, states that "our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge nu...
Datum: 11.12.2007 06:00 •
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What started out as a search for different quality experiences for Gigi Sage, has become a life long pursuit to create harmony in all area of her's life and how to make all kinds of relationships work. In this interview, Sage pulls from over twenty years of teaching and working with women to o...
Datum: 11.12.2007 06:00 •
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While the Internet is quickly becoming an indispensable part of our lives and business, it still remains a challenging environment to achieve a secure and private experience. In this moderated panel from the Trust Online Conference, Lise Buyer leads an insightful discussion of trust with the help of...
Datum: 10.12.2007 06:00 •
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Matt MacLaurin, who works for Microsoft's Creative Systems Group, is developing a game -- and game-development platform -- called Boku. On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Matt about his own early experiences writing software for systems that invited hacking.
Datum: 07.12.2007 06:00 •
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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Bob Drogin talks with Dr. Moira Gunn about the person and the sham perpetrated by the source, presciently code-named "Curveball." The result? The idea that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Datum: 06.12.2007 06:00 •
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On BioTech Nation, David Ewing Duncan and Dr. Moira Gunn interview Dr. Craig Venter, who first came into the public eye when he catalyzed the race to finish decoding the first human genome.
Datum: 06.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
Has artificial intelligence failed? Eliezer Yudkowsky, from the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, humorously examines the three leading schools of thought concerning the singularity and considers AI's successes, failures, and ways to actually judge artificial intelligence.
Datum: 05.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 15.3 MB
As online fraud continues to grow as a major issue, enterprises are trying to come up with new ways to reduce the problem. Unfortunately, we have traded convenience for strong authentication, so other methods must be used. Dan Lulich, Vice President of Technology for iovation, joins Phil and Scott...
Datum: 04.12.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 25.2 MB
Avi Bryant is a Smalltalk developer who joined the Ruby community in its earliest days. He is the author of Seaside, a web-application development framework for Smalltalk, and of Dabble DB, a user-friendly web-based database developed with Smalltalk. In this address, he weighs Ruby against Smalltalk...
Datum: 03.12.2007 06:00 •
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Greg Whisenant, founder of CrimeReports.com, wants every city to make its crime data usefully available to citizens in the same kinds of ways that ChicagoCrime.org famously does. In this conversation with Jon Udell, Greg Whisenant describes a software product that can enable police departments to ea...
Datum: 30.11.2007 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn and Economist reporter Veejay Vaitheeswaran talk about energy, the Prius, and the car manufacturers decided to build - or not build. Find out what's in store for hybrid vehicles and the global race to build the car of the future.
Datum: 29.11.2007 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan speak with Steve Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company, about his experiences in life sciences venture capital, merchant banking and media.
Datum: 29.11.2007 06:00 •
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The internet has opened up previously unimagined space for innovation, but unintended consequences befuddle our ability to assess risks on the technological frontier. Denise Caruso and Clay Shirky launch Supernova with a lively rethinking of risk, serendipity, and the power of love in a socially net...
Datum: 28.11.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 23.2 MB
Since his early attraction to the new Internet industry in the early 1990's Jake McKee has slowly moved to the center of the growing debate over the use of social media within businesses. Factors impacting this debate include the organizational changes required to embrace social media, the need...
Datum: 27.11.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 17.8 MB
As location-based services become ubiquitous, so will government demands for location information as part of criminal and intelligence investigations. Real-time location tracking of cell phones by the government, and subpoenas for cell phone records indicating location, are already routine investiga...
Datum: 26.11.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 5.8 MB
LAMP applications have a firm foothold in e-commerce and social networking, and the value of information stored in those systems is surging. At the 2007 MySQL Conference, Chander Kant of Zmanda, talks about how his company is taking advantage of this growing economy.
Datum: 23.11.2007 06:00 •
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Megacities - those with more than 10 million inhabitants - give a whole new meaning to the problems of pollution, transport infrastructure, and all the other things that keep a city running. IEEE Spectrum Radio investigate some of the solutions megacities have found to otherwise overwhelming problem...
Datum: 20.11.2007 06:00 •
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Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo Foundation to develop the Foundation Platform, a Linux-based, software platform for open mobile communication devices. In this podcast, LiMo Foundation's Morgan Gillis describes th...
Datum: 19.11.2007 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with NY Times contributor Sandra Blakeslee, about neuroscience, and how it is revealing how our brains map out our physical bodies.
Datum: 18.11.2007 06:00 •
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Toothpicks. How are they made? And how did they come to be mass produced? Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Henry Petroski to find out.
Datum: 18.11.2007 06:00 •
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Neuroscience is studying what our brains look like while experiencing varying emotions. David Ewing Duncan speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn about what our brains look like when we feel fear.
Datum: 18.11.2007 06:00 •
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Gardner Campbell teaches English literature, film studies, writing, and -- woven through it all these disciplines -- a new one that he calls digital imagination. In this conversation with Jon Udell, he talks about how our emerging uses of the internet enable educators and students to create fresh ap...
Datum: 16.11.2007 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with NPR's Science Friday host, Ira Flatow. Flatow takes a look inside the studio, and while it seems so simple, you will be surprised to learn how many people it takes to put science live on the radio.
Datum: 15.11.2007 06:00 •
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On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Helena Vieira talks about a new method to show if a promising new molecule might work... a method that's faster and cheaper then ever before.
Datum: 15.11.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 3.6 MB
Rare is the day when you can do anything but stay in bed and avoid seeing any sort of published material. Whether it be a newspaper, novel, or nowadays a published item on the internet or computer, there is no way to avoid this crucial medium for conveying ideas. In this presentation at the Tools of...
Datum: 14.11.2007 06:00 •
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Exploiting Online Games takes a frank look at controversial security issues surrounding MMORPGs, such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. The book comes fully loaded with code examples, debuggers, bots, and hacks. Co-author Gary McGraw joins Phil and Scott to discuss this important topic. Of int...
Datum: 13.11.2007 06:00 •
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We've all heard the term 'Open Source', but what is it that entitles a project to be called Open Source? Freedom from having to pay for the software? Freedom to improve upon it, or create your own version? In his opening statements at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, Tim O�...
Datum: 12.11.2007 06:00 •
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Amory Lovins argues for a sound energy policy that rewards innovation, and for a serious commitment to implementing energy-efficient technological improvements. These combined efforts could subsequently result in saving half of our oil, half of our gas, and three-fourths of our electricity; would de...
Datum: 12.11.2007 06:00 •
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Dick Hardt, founder and CEO of Sxip Identity, has been working with the Canadian government on a new virtual ID card that will streamline online interaction among government agencies, public-sector organizations, and citizens. In this conversation with Jon Udell, Hardt explains how this new program ...
Datum: 09.11.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 21.7 MB
On this edition of IEEE Spectrum's Cooking with Engineers series, Spectrum's Suzan Hassler speaks with Brian Young, the Executive Chef at New York's Tavern on the Green. Young discusses his task as architect at a restaurant serving over a thousand diners for lunch and dinner, and the ...
Datum: 09.11.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 11.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with science writer David Bodanis, author of "Passionate Minds", about the scientist Emilie du Chatelet and the Poet Voltaire.
Datum: 08.11.2007 06:00 •
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On BioTech Nation, Geoff Corbett talks to Dr. Moira Gunn about useful microorganisms in the volcanoes of Antarctica. And David Ewing Duncan explains how to get our own DNA test.
Datum: 08.11.2007 06:00 •
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The next evolution of Rails isn't going to be a unicorn, according to David Heinemeier Hansson. In this keynote address at the 2007 RailsConf, Hansson talks about what the Rails community has and where it's going, and the gradual improvements Rails will see in the coming years.
Datum: 07.11.2007 06:00 •
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As described on its website, Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. It is designed to help young people As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important m...
Datum: 06.11.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 26.3 MB
In the keynote presentation from the 2007 Singularity Summit, Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT, explores many possible singularity futures based on decades of experience researching, inventing, and commercializing robots. During this presentation Dr. Brooks examines why we need ...
Datum: 05.11.2007 06:00 •
Größe: 21.7 MB
On BioTech Nation, Jim Greenwood, the President and CEO of BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, speaks with Dr. Moira Gunnabout an innovative new conference: Partnering for Global Health which brings together biotech and science, global philanthropists, and people in need.
Datum: 05.11.2007 06:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Jeffrey Toobin about the Supreme Court Justices and how tech-savvy they are... or aren't, as the case might be.
Datum: 05.11.2007 06:00 •
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On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Norma Nowak, who looks at some interesting new discoveries which could some day replace amniocentesis. David Ewing Duncan returns with Bio-Issue of the Week.
Datum: 03.11.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 6.7 MB
Throughout the Energy Efficiency series, Amory Lovins, has diligently presented countless statistics and case studies to support the need for, and demonstrate the benefits of, improved energy services. He identifies a significant number of formidable barriers to energy efficiency, and prescribes a v...
Datum: 03.11.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 44.3 MB
On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, Jon Udell's guest is Beth Jefferson, the founder of BiblioCommons. Her company's new software aims to transform public libraries' online catalogs into environments for social discovery of resources that are cataloged not only by librarian...
Datum: 02.11.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 21.7 MB
On this episode of IEEE Spectrum Radio, Susan Hassler hosts an inspiring conversation with pioneering computer scientist Dr. Anita K. Jones. Jones talks about how she took her father's advice that she find something in life she loved to do, and do it. Passionate about solving difficult technica...
Datum: 31.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 8 MB
Honeypots have demonstrated immense value in Internet security. Virtual honeypots share many attributes of traditional honeypots, but you can run thousands of them on a single system-making them easier and cheaper to build, deploy, and maintain. Thorsten Holz, co-author of the book Virtual Honeypo...
Datum: 30.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 24.8 MB
In general terms, Web 2.0 has been described as a more interactive, less passive form of the web. In truth, it is actually the culmination of ideas first proposed during the initial phase of the web. In this episode, Gerd and Glen speculate on what will be the next phase of web development. They lo...
Datum: 30.10.2007 05:00 •
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The internet has come a long way since its inception. You can now talk to a friend in real time while miles away or share photographs with relatives in the next town over. However, there is a method of interaction that we all use infinitely more every single day: voice. While Web 2.0 content is incr...
Datum: 29.10.2007 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Maryanne Wolf about how human brains have adapted since we invented writing and along with it reading.
Datum: 28.10.2007 05:00 •
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On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, Jon Udell chats with Michael Caulfield, one of the founders of BlueHampshire.com. In less than a year, BlueHampshire has gone from zero to sixty. Today it's the dominant progressive community-based political blog in New Hampshire, cited by national...
Datum: 26.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 15.2 MB
How do you map a city like Mumbai, a huge area with a population of over 14 million people, with a low budget and raw data that consist mainly of hand-drawn maps? Schuyler Erle recounts his experience doing just that. Considerable help came from free software from the geodata community and dedicated...
Datum: 24.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 15.4 MB
Recently, Google released from beta its Google Web Toolkit. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Phil and Scott ta...
Datum: 23.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 27.4 MB
Rasmus Lerdorf, the original creator of the PHP programming language says he isn't a real programmer. Lerdorf isn't passionate about programming if it doesn't solve his problem; he created PHP to solve his own set of problems. Hear the story of the evolution of PHP from being a purely...
Datum: 22.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 20.7 MB
Amory Lovins continues his discussion on energy efficiency in transportation by presenting the business case for lighter, more slippery vehicles. However, despite the superior economics of fuel efficient vehicles, there remains a lack of will on the part of automobile manufacturers to fully embrace ...
Datum: 22.10.2007 05:00 •
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The United States can break its dependency on oil by 2040 according to Amory Lovins. He discusses the strategy outlined in his book, Winning the Oil Endgame, through which the country can eliminate its use of oil and have a much stronger economy. Most significantly, this plan does not rely on big g...
Datum: 21.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 23.9 MB
On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell invites Stuart Weibel to reflect on his leading role in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. They also discuss how databases like the Online Computer Library Center's WorldCat - which consolidates bibliographic data from over 50,000 ...
Datum: 20.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 16.8 MB
Steve Wozniak and Mark Hodosh talk to Dr. Moira Gunn about the Archon X-Prize in Genomics - 100 complete genomes in 10 days, and discuss the difference it will make.
Datum: 18.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 14 MB
On BioTech Nation, DNA goes to the dogs when Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Edwin Quattlebau. Dr. Jim Hengst explains how materials used in research, such as cancer cells, SARS and HIV, are prepared and shipped to scientists.
Datum: 18.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 9.1 MB
This year's top ten high tech cars strive to maximize energy efficiency while delivering the features drivers demand. Join Spectrum's automotive editor John Voelcker as he rounds up of the range of new technologies that cut fuel consumption and control performance in clever ways. Along wit...
Datum: 17.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 12.1 MB
The Internet has always been known as a way for individuals to retrieve information. Shane Pearson, VP of Marketing and Product Management for BEA, believes that the Internet is now a place for individuals to interact with information. He also believes that many of these ways can be used by enterpri...
Datum: 16.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 26.7 MB
Expensive technological devices can be found just about anywhere today, ranging from the business executive's office to the middle school playground. It is no surprise that gadgets have also become prime targets for thieves operating just about anywhere as well. In this talk Mark Simpkins of th...
Datum: 15.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 5.1 MB
Dmitri Williams is an academic at USC Annenberg School for Communication, who studies the social dynamics of online games. On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with Williams and George Vickers, who reflect on the ways in which leadership and organizational skills can ...
Datum: 13.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 18.7 MB
In this conversation with Scott Mace, Centric CRM's Michael Harvey contrasts Centric CRM from rival SugarCRM, which he says doesn't scale as well because it's written in PHP. Harvey then defends Centric CRM's take on open source: developers who want to build a commercial business...
Datum: 11.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 9 MB
How do young people view the online experience? What are the implications of how life will be for people who have spent their entire lives online? Phil, Scott, and Ben discuss this and other topics related to recent conferences attended. Besides the whole issue of Millennials, they also assess the...
Datum: 10.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 27.6 MB
Doug Kaye, Executive Director, announces Media Conversations an all-new channel on The Conversations Network. The first series on the channel is Future Talks, an interview-format program with futurists Gerd Leonhard and Glen Hiemstra. Future Talks is the first series on The Conversations Network pro...
Datum: 09.10.2007 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with movie critic Leonard Maltin, who explains how movies have changed over the years, and how they're changing today, all thanks to technology.
Datum: 09.10.2007 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Anthony Smithyman, about antibiotics - once thought to be the great cure-all. Smithyman talks about the state of antibiotic resistance.
Datum: 09.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 8.4 MB
In his new book "The End of Control", Gerd Leonhard expands on the key topics introduced in his first book "The Future of Music" while escalating the debate out of the music realm and into media at large. He addresses the single most important issue underlying many debates about ...
Datum: 09.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 24.5 MB
With a small change to its software, a Ferrarri will run like a 20 year old minivan with a bad spark plug. This edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio explores new driving technologies, from intelligent driving systems to GPS-equipped devices that customize and modernize parking. Bob Lucky challenges the cu...
Datum: 08.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 14 MB
In the third and final session on Energy Efficiency in Industry, Amory Lovins demonstrates the value of the whole system optimization approach to energy efficiency. These examples demonstrate how considering every last detail of a system design and integration can lead to the discovery of the greate...
Datum: 08.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 13.5 MB
Where do you save the most energy and capital costs? Amory Lovins focuses the discussion of energy efficiency in industry on capital costs versus overall benefits. He challenges his audience to consider a different approach for systems analysis, and identifies four target areas where the greatest sa...
Datum: 07.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 11.1 MB
Amory Lovins discusses conservation and efficiency strategies that enable industry to eliminate waste, achieve cost savings, lower capital outlays, identify additional capacity, and increase profit. A simple commitment to new energy policies, combined with innovative design strategies and the implem...
Datum: 06.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 18.1 MB
Ned Gulley is a software designer at The Mathworks and the architect of the company's semi-annual MATLAB programming contest. Since 1999 he's watched contestants exhibit a unique blend of competition and cooperation. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Gulley...
Datum: 05.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 19.1 MB
Guy Kawasaki has a long history working in technology, both in established companies and as an entrepreneur. He worked for Apple at the time of the development of the Macintosh and later returned as an Apple Fellow. In this keynote speech, he gives what he believes are the important stages towards...
Datum: 03.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 22.8 MB
If you ask the average person for an example of an appliance, he or she would mention a toaster. However, David Link, CEO of ScienceLogic, would give you a completely different example. He joins Phil and Ben to discuss technology appliances. In addition to defining them, he talks about how they a...
Datum: 02.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 25.6 MB
Social networking can transform communication and build powerful connections, but getting it right in the enterprise takes a special touch. David Bankston shares his experience as a technologist and entrepreneur in this lively discussion of ways in which software-as-service and social media can help...
Datum: 01.10.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 17.7 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Vince Poscente about speed in a More-Faster-Now Technology World.
Datum: 28.09.2007 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Gerard Davis, the CEO of Catapult Genetics, who talks about genetics testing in the cattle industry, and Australia's Dr. Paul Fisher talks about mitochondrial diseases and the research he is undertaking to meet the challenge.
Datum: 28.09.2007 05:00 •
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On the Bio-Issue of the Week - unbelievably - David Ewing Duncan celebrates the 15th anniversary of Viagra.
Datum: 28.09.2007 05:00 •
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Jeff Bonforte was scheduled to talk about the future of VoIP. However, instead of a description of what he calls Telephone 3.0, he delivers an entertaining and typically forthright argument in favor of anger and its power to drive innovation. Bonforte challenges the nerds and dorks of the IT industr...
Datum: 26.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 9.1 MB
Many of the large technology companies are well known for purchasing new, innovative products developed by smaller companies. As part of his work at Yahoo, Bradley Horowitz leads in-house teams trying to advance new ideas from within. He joins Phil and Scott to talk about Yahoo's development ...
Datum: 25.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 24.1 MB
The many software development communities that have surfaced over the years have started to see an increasing relevance of social issues around them. They are not just engineering activities but full-fledged social communities. In this talk, Bdale Garbee, the Linux CTO at HP, draws a parallel betwee...
Datum: 24.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 17.8 MB
Well-designed buildings not only conserve energy and reduce costs but also create conditions for better health and wellness. Amory Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, uses several examples to show how the right mix of materials, resources, and expertise can create structures that celebr...
Datum: 23.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 20.7 MB
Buildings represent an ideal opportunity for reducing energy through clever design. Amory Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, explores the many possibilities that building design offers us to "think outside of the box" in order to save energy. He illustrates his talk with nume...
Datum: 22.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 21.6 MB
On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, Beth Kanter describes the strategies she uses to teach digital immigrants in non-profit organizations how to use Web 2.0 strategies to communicate and collaborate more effectively.
Datum: 21.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 15.6 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with former USA Today technology columnist Kevin Maney, about his new gig at Conde Nast Portfolio.com, music collaboration over the internet, and the constant trade-offs we make when it comes to choosing between technologies.
Datum: 20.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 12.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the chair of ISAAA's board of directors, Dr. Clive James, about biotech agriculture. He confirms that the United States grows more biotech crops than any other nation.
Datum: 20.09.2007 05:00 •
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On this week's Bio-Issue, David Ewing Duncan considers the fact that not all scientific studies carry the same weight, despite following all the appropriate guidelines.
Datum: 20.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 4.1 MB
For many years, only very large businesses could afford to create and deploy innovative voice applications, such as looking up account balances or tying voice applications into their existing business applications. Now, with Asterisk and other open-source applications, the field is wide open for bus...
Datum: 18.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 26.8 MB
Optaros started an internal list of open source projects that become the Enterprise Open Source Directory, a growing online community still under the editorial guidance of Optaros. The EOSD includes case studies, grouping of software by categories, and Optaros' trend rating showing which open s...
Datum: 17.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 11.1 MB
This brief program is an update from The Conversations Network's Executive Director, Doug Kaye. Topics include the status of the re-integration of IT Conversations into The Conversations Network, a pitch for new volunteers, a new version of The Levelator, and The Conversations Network's pl...
Datum: 16.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Joshua Spanogle, author of a number of medical thrillers, and student at the Standford Medical School, about the bio-ethics of cosmetic surgery.
Datum: 15.09.2007 05:00 •
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On this week's BioTech Nation discover how a visit to the pet store spurred on a biotech company, and learn how Britain's National Health Service decides who gets what medical treatment as Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman of the National Institute of Health & Cl...
Datum: 15.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 8.2 MB
On this week's BioIssue, David Ewing Duncan talks about Craig Venter, the American biologist and businessman who founded the Institute of Genomic Research.
Datum: 15.09.2007 05:00 •
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Joining Jon Udell on this episode of Interviews with Innovators is Edward Iacobucci, co-founder of DayJet. Widely known in IT circles as the co-founder of Citrix, he left in 2000 to pursue his interest in aviation. In 2002 he co-founded DayJet, a company whose mission is to deliver on-demand, per-se...
Datum: 14.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 24.3 MB
Rich in linguistic play and delivered with both wit and panache, Eben Moglen's talk is an intellectual delight. Beginning with a look at the history of memory from the public recording of England's 11th century Domesday Book, Moglen leads us through the private memory palaces of 14th and 1...
Datum: 12.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 18 MB
On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio listen to Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf speak about his favorite work of fiction. Also, hear about Spectrum's Senior Editor Tekla Perry's cell phone shopping experience , and why an old shoe box might be better storage than your ...
Datum: 11.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 15.4 MB
At the 2002 Emerging Technology Conference, Rohit Khare gave an influential talk on an architecture he called application layer internetworking (ALIN). Five years later that thinking has evolved, and now he's describing syndication-oriented architecture (SynOA). On this edition of Jon Udell...
Datum: 10.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 21.6 MB
Some technology companies founded and headquartered in the United States aren't outsourcing to India and China, but are spreading technology centers around the world instead. Ron Levy, CTO of BEA Systems Inc., explains to Dr. Moira Gunn how BEA is making things work when their staff works in wildly ...
Datum: 06.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 14.6 MB
On this Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn about a familiar topic: having your DNA read. Duncan explains that -- like many things in the BioTech world -- there's more to it than that.
Datum: 06.09.2007 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lyn Beazley, the Chief Scientist of Western Australia. As it turns out, Beazley is the first woman to be assigned to that position.
Datum: 06.09.2007 05:00 •
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One of the biggest issues in the world today, that of energy consumption, is becoming impossible to avoid. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, learn how Ontario, Canada is hoping to avert a crisis by overhauling their energy industry. Fuel cells can also help, and Spectrum looks at how they're a...
Datum: 05.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 15.9 MB
The top software developers are ten times as productive as average developers. You can't afford not to hire them. But if you haven't been reading Joel Spolsky's books or blog, you probably don't know how to find them and make them want to work for you. Joel joins Phil, Scott, and Ben in a discussio...
Datum: 04.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 28.5 MB
In a deceptively straightforward presentation, TalkPlus CTO John Todd lays bare a vision for a global standards-based numbering system free from bureaucratic control and compatible with almost all existing iPBX or SIP proxy platforms and NAPTR addressable protocols. At the same time, he brings his a...
Datum: 03.09.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 8.8 MB
In this edition of Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, host Jon dell speaks with Barbara Aronson, program manager for the World Health Organization's Health InterNetwork Access Initiative (HINARI). Thanks to this program, qualifying hospitals, universities, and other organizations in 70 of the p...
Datum: 31.08.2007 05:00 •
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the founders of two new ventures.Guy Kawasaki, with his much-maligned new venture: truemors - dot - com and the creation of an MIT sophomore: booktour.com.
Datum: 30.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 15.7 MB
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn looks at pediatric biotech. Dr. Tom Anderson from Pediatric Bioscience talks about progress with autism and Asperger's Syndrome, and David Ewing Duncan presents the new scientific findings on coffee - big news... if you're a woman.
Datum: 30.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 7.6 MB
Proprietary software encourages capital drain from the poor to the rich; free software reduces this imbalance of power and resources. With free software, the source code being available, users are guaranteed that there are no privacy violation issues and the software has no back doors. Patrick Ball,...
Datum: 29.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 15 MB
Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. The company also collaborates openly with colleges and universities to advance the field of computer science. Senior Vice President Rick Rashid joins Phil, Scott, and Ben to ...
Datum: 28.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 28.2 MB
Current mobile phones and handsets bear witness to the the spectacular advances in hardware development of the past twenty years. However, the software within these handsets has not evolved at the same rate and is now a limiting factor in future development. Trolltech's Benoit Schillings issues a ca...
Datum: 27.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 8.8 MB
The American Bar Association provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public. The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers ev...
Datum: 25.08.2007 05:00 •
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Dr. John Halamka joins Jon Udell on this edition of Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators. He's a renaissance guy: a physician, a CIO, and a healthcare IT innovator. Lots of people are talking about secure exchange of medical records and portable continuity of care documents. John Halamka is on the...
Datum: 24.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 14.3 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Geoff Moore and David Thompson about how Web 2.0 is seamlessly taking the high tech lives of our young people right into the workplace.
Datum: 23.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 16.1 MB
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Jenny Harry, who talks about the latest developments in a semen-based prostate cancer test, while David Ewing Duncan talks about a longevity pill.
Datum: 23.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
"Sometimes you've got to think like a surfer--lie low, go with the flow, and ride the wave. And sometimes you've got to be the cowboy--ride into town, call the bluff, and face the music in the showdown." Dr. Elliot McGucken explains how artists can find financial success by seeing their q...
Datum: 22.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 24.1 MB
In The Book of Risk, Dan Borge writes that "the purpose of risk management is to change the future, not to explain the past." The subtitle of Andrew Jaquith's book is "Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" and that is a clear description of the purpose of security metrics. Phil...
Datum: 21.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 30 MB
The mission of the non-profit One Laptop per Child association is to develop a low-cost laptop, a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Their goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. Michael...
Datum: 20.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 14.8 MB
In this edition of Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with Greg Elin, chief architect with the Sunlight Foundation. Founded in 2006, the Sunlight Foundation aims to make the operation of Congress and the U.S. government more transparent and accountable. Jon and Greg discu...
Datum: 18.08.2007 05:00 •
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Drew Major is one of the true pioneers in the computing industry. He first worked with early CP/M computers but really expanded his programming activities when IBM unveiled the IBM Personal Computer. His initial work revolved around resource sharing and networking. As part of his work with Novell...
Datum: 07.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 30.4 MB
Open source is the foundation of today's gift economy, but have you checked everything that comes inside those packages? Black Duck Software helped one company find and remove a surprising payload from such open source code before it could pop up on customers' screens. Find out what they found in th...
Datum: 06.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 10.4 MB
As senior technical officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency and chief of its requirements and research group, Lewis Shepherd has promoted and observed a remarkable transformation that's occurring inside the U.S. intelligence community as analysts begin to embrace Web 2.0 practices. There's a lon...
Datum: 03.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 18.2 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Greg Papadopolous, the Chief Technology Officer of Sun Microsystems. Sun is celebrating 25 years in the computer industry, and he describes the ups and downs.
Datum: 02.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 15.1 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with David Gandcolas from HeartMath, who talks about their simple device which looks at your heartbeat and recognizes stress. On the Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan talks about a breakthrough in prosthetic hands.
Datum: 02.08.2007 05:00 •
Größe: 8.2 MB
How many buildings do you know that can produce oxygen? William McDonough, the man Time magazine recognized in 1999 as a "Hero for the Planet," has designed buildings for clients such as Ford and Gap that can do just that. McDonough -- architect, industrial systems designer, and proponent ...
Datum: 03.12.2006 06:00 •
Größe: 30.9 MB
The rosy picture often painted of our world transformed by high tech successes ignores some serious problems with quality. Michael Tiemann argues something must be done, and soon, since much of our current software functions poorly, and the cost of IT to business is far too high. Open source can hel...
Datum: 15.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 8.2 MB
The China Project offers a rare opportunity to study disease in a precise manner because of the unique conditions that exist in rural China. For example, about 90% of the people in rural China live their entire lives in the vicinity of their birth. They also consume diets composed primarily of local...
Datum: 14.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 14 MB
The attention economy promises to harness the power of the network, but in the meantime, we are being deluged by the glut of information. Alpha geeks may rejoice as they imagine new heuristics to catch up with this information overload. In reality, every waking moment has been absorbed by the task o...
Datum: 12.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 7.8 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Nobel Laureate Dr. Amartya Sen about his latest book, 'Identity and Violence.' They'll examine the relationship between religion and government.
Datum: 11.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 10.2 MB
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Anne De Groot, the Founder & CEO of EpiVax, about smallpox, botox, and more. And for the BioIssue of the Week, science journalist David Ewing Duncan talks about the personalities of scientists.
Datum: 11.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 6.9 MB
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks about the Free Radicals of Innovation with Bob Newhart, the founder and CEO of the Innovation Center.
Datum: 11.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 7.4 MB
Ray Ozzie, creator of Lotus Notes and recent addition to Microsoft's CTO office, demonstrates a new and yet familiar tool called Live Clipboard during this keynote presentation from the March 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Most computer users are already familiar with the cut and pas...
Datum: 10.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 10.9 MB
It's time to get excited about software again. Software spending is up, capital investment is up, but what does Web 2.0 really mean for the enterprise? Vanessa Colella blends optimism with practical suggestions on how software companies can move to the next phase by understanding their niche in the...
Datum: 09.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 8 MB
Our cellphones are watching us! In this session from the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference 2005, Nathan Eagle introduces research conducted at the MIT Media Lab that shows how publicly available data from mobile devices can be used to observe and predict the activities of individuals and groups. At the ...
Datum: 08.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 8.3 MB
Dr. Daniel Amen has been using brain imaging in clinical practice for the past fourteen years. His clinics now have the world's largest database of brain scans related to behavior. The work has given him many insights on better ways to improve patient care and prevent illnesses that are so expensive...
Datum: 07.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 19.3 MB
Yahoo! has been one of the leading companies in the field of content syndication. and has been working to create a Content Syndication Ecosystem where publishers, advertisers, and customers are able to interact. Scott Gatz, Yahoo!'s senior director of personalization products, describes how Yahoo ha...
Datum: 06.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 15.8 MB
William Quigley, managing director of Clearstone Venture Partners, believes that the incumbent RBOCs will remain strong as they continue to reinvent and reinvest in infrastructure. Where are the emerging opportunities in telephony? Mr. Quigley identifies two areas for telephony entrepeneurs. First,...
Datum: 05.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 7 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn speaks with Michael Morrissey, Executive Vice President for Drug Discovery at Exelixis, talks about their efforts in discovering new drugs for cancer research. And BioIssue of the Week, science journalist David Ewing Duncan talks about the economics of the biotech industry.
Datum: 04.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 7.9 MB
Dr Moira Gunn speaks with Tamara Draut, the Director of the Economic Opportunity Program at Demos, a New York City-based public policy center. Draut is the author of the book "Strapped -- Why America's 20- and 30- Somethings Can't Get Ahead." We'll find out why young people today just can't get ahe...
Datum: 04.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 6.5 MB
Dr. Moria Gunn speaks with 70's icon Erica Jong. Best known for her novel "Fear of Flying," Jong is back with a new memoir, "Seducing the Demon." This edition of TechNation looks back on what exactly changed during that heady time.
Datum: 04.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 10.2 MB
Security and validation are critical issues in computing, and the next fifty years will be harder than the last. There are a number of proven programming techniques and design approaches which are already helping to harden our modern systems, but each of these must be carefully balanced with usabil...
Datum: 03.05.2006 04:00 •
Größe: 9.3 MB
How do blogs allow us to break free of our bone boxes and connect with each other? How are we fastening ourselves to our posts and to other people? What kinds of relationships are we building through blogging? Which sections of ourselves do we let others see? How do we choose what goes into our blog...
Datum: 04.12.2004 05:00 •
Größe: 38.8 MB
On his latest expedition in February 2004, Ben Saunders set out from Cape Arktichevsky in Northern Siberia in an attempt to be the first person in the world to make a complete crossing of the frozen Arctic Ocean in a 1,240-mile journey ending in Canada, solo and unsupported. The expedition was a tra...
Datum: 27.11.2004 05:00 •
Größe: 18.2 MB
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