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1. Does corporate backing taint universities’ energy resource studies? Meet Professor Pam Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and renowned scientist. Pam is super-excited about the opportunities that ever-increasing levels of private and industrial funding for energy and environmental research offer. How can universities...
2. Stanford University – Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) is one of the country’s most active offices in the field of technology transfer from university to industry. Their staff, most of whom are professionals engaged directly in licensing, manages over 2,500 active...
3. Tour of Stanford Linear Accelerator’s visitor center Bebo White, who was on the team that built the first U.S. Web site at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), gives us a tour around SLAC’s visitor center and gives us a little lesson in particle physics. ...
4. Trends in human/computer interaction from Stanford University prof Scott Klemmer is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. We spend an hour talking about a variety of topics. Modern software development trends that Scott is seeing from companies like Google and Yahoo (both of...
5. Stanford Economist On Google’s China Dilemma MENLO PARK, June 10, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google co-founder Sergey Brin told reporters in Washington last week that Google “compromised principles” by complying with Chinese government censorship rules. Brin spoke on the heels of reports by the international media...
6. The guy who runs Stanford’s undergraduate computer science department Mehran Sahami is the associate chairman of undergraduate education. What does that mean? He runs probably the most important computer science undergraduate department in the world. This is the department that gave birth to Google, after all (and a bunch...
7. Sun Microsystems CEO: “We almost died” Yesterday I sat down with Sun Microsystems‘ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and Tim Marsland, Sun’s CTO in charge of Solaris, and had a wide-ranging discussion from his pitch to Steve Jobs as to why Apple should include the Java runtimes on...
8. Sun Microsystems releases new Blades John Fowler, executive vice president at Sun Microsystems, invited us over for a press conference where they announced their new blade server 6200 series (servers for the data center). Here’s first look at these new servers. Here’s the highlights of...
9. Tina Seelig – Executive Director Stanford Technology Ventures Program Every problem is an opportunity for a creative solution. Tina and John met up at Stanford University to talk about adding creativity to the thought process. How does one take themselves “out of the box” to achieve a creative result...
10. A former student finds her way as energy consultant Lauren Casey recently graduated from Stanford with a major in Earth Sciences. She is a wonderful example of young talent determined to make a positive contribution to the preservation of our environment. Listen to this phone interview with Lauren conducted...