Mike Montemerlo is the artificial intelligence guy on Stanford University’s DARPA challenge team. Basically, they are building a robotic car that’ll be able to negotiate a course without humans being involved. He also thinks about the act of driving in [See the full post…]

Jumbling Towers have one of the most identifiable sounds of any band to come out of St. Louis in a while. If you like them, check out some more of their stuff on their MySpace page. This performance was taped [See the full post…]

This podcast provides a preview of the Symantec white paper titled, The Veritas NetBackup Platform: Delivering Next-Generation Protection and an Introduction to Veritas NetBackup 6.5. To download the white paper in its entirety, visit www.symantec.com/netbackup.

If one man could be credited with bringing the first plug-in hybrid electric school bus to California, it would be Ralph Knight. As transportation director for the Napa Valley Unified School District, Ralph’s tireless four-year effort paid off with the [See the full post…]

Eddie Muller, the Czar of Noir, talks about all his books beginning with Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of ‘Adults Only’ Cinema and Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir all the way up to the movie he just finished [See the full post…]

If you’ve been following Lo-Fi Saint Louis you’ll know that we’ve covered these guys before. This time I caught the 7 Shot Screamers at The Lot Festival, an annual music event hosted by Metropolis St. Louis. It’s always a good [See the full post…]

There are more than 500,000 yellow school buses in the U.S. Those buses, on average, get between 7 and 8 miles per gallon. Imagine if those buses were hybrid buses, capable of a 40-percent increase in fuel efficiency and a [See the full post…]

Get the most out of your new BladeSystem solution with a portfolio of services designed to build, deliver and support a ‘best-run’ infrastructure. Learn more about HP server blades.

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Here, you can see how Visible Technologies makes it possible for big enterprises to follow and participate in online conversations about them. Blake Cahill, VP of Marketing, and Miles Ward, practice lead, community intelligence, of Visible Technologies, gives us a [See the full post…]

Joseph Smarr, Plaxo‘s architect, and John McCrea, VP of marketing, introduce Robert Scoble to Plaxo’s new offices, talk about a new feature, to be released on Wednesday, which is an “online identity aggregator,” and explain how it works and why [See the full post…]

ZenZui has a new “zoomable” UI for mobile phones that’s quite unique and fun to use. Come along as John SanGiovanni, co-founder and VP of products and services at ZenZui, tells me about his company’s plans and shows me how [See the full post…]

While in San Francisco for the launch of the Vectrix, the all-electric motorcycle, I spoke with Tansy Brook of British Motor Cars. BMC will be the exclusive distributor of the ZEV throughout California. From the company’s flagship store in San [See the full post…]

I spent Saturday afternoon crammed into a room in Palo Alto with a couple of hundred people listening to presentations from young developers creating Facebook apps. The enthusiasm was great and there was a sense of being at the start [See the full post…]

This is a solo performance by Irene Allen that I caught several months ago, but I lost the original tapes. I recently found the tapes, and the performance is really too good not to share with you. Irene is originally [See the full post…]

45nm Program Manager Kaizad Mistry takes you inside the groundbreaking 45nm Hi-k metal gate process technology used in the next generation of Intel Core microarchitecture. Related stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw

This conversation about casting for movies is with Davia Nelson, who has worked with Francis Coppola, Phil Kaufman, Barbet Shroeder and she has become a Peabody Award-winning radio creator of Hidden Kitchens on NPR. One of those shows is now [See the full post…]

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Valerie Cunningham interviews Jamis McNiven, the owner of Buck’s Diner, in Woodside, Calif. This is where many of Silicon Valley’s most famous companies got their start: pitching their business plans in breakfast meetings with local VCs. Also on TechOne: Josh [See the full post…]

The first company to deploy Centrino Pro on a large scale was the company that created Centrino Pro. “We’re some of the first testers of technology,” says Laurie Buczek, Intel’s Global Web Program Manager. Intel’s own IT people learned how [See the full post…]

In technology development, most researcher “to-do lists” do not have an item that says something like: “invent society-changing technology.” Mostly, to-do lists contain step-by-step improvements. But we are reminded that the step-by-step can be as important as any monumental leap. [See the full post…]

Bob Duffy, Intel’s Online Community Strategist reveals the ins and outs of launching Intel’s community site for the IT audience. He talks to Jennifer Jones and tells her how he worked the idea throughout the organization, sharing strategies he used [See the full post…]

Are you a director who wants to overlay your commentary on top of your video? Sort of like when you get a DVD? Or, are you a critic that wants to point out mistakes in the film? Now you can, [See the full post…]

WetPaint is my favorite Wiki service. A Wiki is a page where a group of people can collaboratively work together to update the page. Sign in, click “edit” and away you go. But there’s a lot more to WetPaint than [See the full post…]

Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting of [See the full post…]