Tag: Interview

• 12.17.07

  Craig Venter: Physiologist/Entrepreneur

  Genetically Engineering a Better Future January 24, 2008 - Updated News from WIRED.com: Craig Venter and scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute build first man-made genome.  Click here to read the article. John Craig Venter is scientist

• 11.19.07

  Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey: Entrepreneurs

  Personalizing the Gene Pool Anne Wojcicki comes from some pretty impressive genetic stock.  Wojcicki’s father, Stanley, is a physicist who serves as head of Stanford University’s physics department, and her mother, Esther, teaches journa

• 11.15.07

  Transcript: Franklin Chang-Diaz Extended Interview

  Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz has been in orbit more times than most people have been in airplanes. Since 1986, he's logged over 1,600 hours on board the Space Shuttle. Now, retired from NASA, he's President and CEO of the Ad Astra Rocket Company. At faci

• 11.14.07

  Red Whittaker: Roboticist

  Winning the Robot Race William “Red” Whittaker remembers thinking about his future career as a young boy.  His interests lay in science and technology, but he wanted to enter a field that had yet to reach its full potential. Whittaker al

• 11.12.07

  Franklin Chang-Diaz: Astronaut and Rocket Scientist

  Powering a Manned Mission to Mars and Beyond Like a lot of kids growing up during the dawn of the space age, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz dreamed of humanity exploring and inhabiting space.  Unlike most of those kids, however, Chang-Diaz has spent his ad

• 11.7.07

  Transcript: Paul Diamandis Extended Interview

  The fact that lots of other organizations, NASA and DARPA just to name two, are adopting the competition model, is a real victory for our guest today. Peter Diamandis trained as a medical doctor but now he has his hands in a bunch of space related busines

• 11.5.07

  Peter Diamandis: Space Entrepreneur

  Revolution Through Competition Peter Diamandis has a motto: “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.”  For Diamandis, the future is best created through competition.  Founder of the X Prize Foundation, Diamandis

• 10.31.07

  Transcript: Jeff Hawkins Extended Interview

  Jeff Hawkins got famous for developing the software behind the Palm Pilot and the Treo SmartPhone. They are two of the most important pieces of consumer electronics since -- well, ever. Jeff has since returned to his first love, neuroscience, specificall

• 10.29.07

  Jeff Hawkins: Computer Scientist

  Rethinking the Way We Think Jeff Hawkins is a man whose inventions are bigger than many people’s imaginations.  Born on the North Shore of Long Island in 1950, he was raised on innovation.  In an interview with Pen Computing Magazine, Haw

• 10.25.07

  Transcript: James Gates Extended Interview

  When James Gates was a young boy, he wanted to be an astronaut.  That plan didn’t work out for him, so he was forced to become one of America’s foremost theoretical physicists.  A professor at the University of Maryland, Gates is fam

• 10.22.07

  James Gates: Theoretical Physicist

  Searching for a Theory of Everything Sylvester James Gates, Jr. has been pioneering new territory throughout his career. He began his groundbreaking work in 1977, when he earned his Ph.D. in the studies of elementary particle physics and quantum field t

• 10.8.07

  Transcript: Cameron Sinclair Extended Interview

  As an architectural designer in New York, Cameron Sinclair has worked with his share of corporate clients. But, as Head Of Architecture For Humanity, he has a much different customer base as refugees of war, victims of disaster and the world’s poor.

• 9.25.07

  Transcript: Paul Kedrosky Interview

  Paul Kedrosky is a venture capitalist. That’s someone who connects investors to people with ideas and in spite of the bursting of the dotcom bubble back in the year 2000, remember how it got all poor a few years back? Well, there is still plenty of

• 9.21.07

  Cameron Sinclair: Architect

  Putting Smart Design Where It’s Needed the Most Cameron Sinclair solves the problems of the world with architecture. Co-founder of the charitable organization Architecture for Humanity, Sinclair and his co-founder Kate Stohr literally help re-build

• 9.17.07

  Paul Kedrosky: Venture Capitalist

  Taking Science from Labs to Market  A new metal alloy that bounces - and can be used to make high-powered golf clubs? Hopping robots that right themselves if they fall over? These are just some of the projects Paul Kedrosky has helped to midwife fro