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Bing, Google, and Wolfram Alpha on the Future of Search

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:12:03 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/25/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Search

Drawing from location awareness and voice recognition technologies, representatives from Bing, Google and Wolfram Alpha weigh in on the future of Internet search. Bing's Blaise Aguera y Arcas promises a revised form of search that offers time and location specific results custom-tailored to the user.

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DLD is an inspiring community for the 21st century which features digital innovation, science and culture and brings together thought leaders, creators, entrepreneurs and investors from Europe, the Middle-East, the Americas and Asia.

This session on Web search features Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Bing), Ben Gomes (Google), Ilya Segalovich (Yandex) and Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram Alpha). Jochen Wegner (Focus Online) moderates.

In 2004 Blaise Aguera y Arcas founded Seadragon, Inc., to develop ideas in scalable architectures and user interfaces for interacting with large volumes of visual information, potentially over a narrow-bandwidth connection. Microsoft bought Seadragon at the beginning of 2006. The Seadragon team's most visible project to date is Photosynth (labs.live.com/photosynth), a collaboration with researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Washington.

Ben Gomes is a Distinguished Engineer at Google where he is a lead for the company's engineering efforts on search features. Gomes has been with Google for more than ten years and has worked in the development of nearly all aspects of the Google search service ranging from crawling and indexing to ranking and new feature design.

Conrad Wolfram founded Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in 1991 and in 1997 also became Strategic Director at Wolfram Research, Inc., founded by brother Stephen. In 2009, the Wolfram |Alpha knowledge engine spin-off was launched to dramatic interest - both because of its new approach and the unique combination of Wolfram Technologies which made it possible.

Dennis Crowley - Foursquare, Explained

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:11:17 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/26/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Location

Dennis Crowley, co-founder of foursquare, discusses the goals of the location-based social networking application. While the service was originally created to "facilitate serendipity," Crowley explains the quickly growing company has now opened up its API to encourage deep customization.

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DLD is an inspiring community for the 21st century which features digital innovation, science and culture and brings together thought leaders, creators, entrepreneurs and investors from Europe, the Middle-East, the Americas and Asia. This session on location-based technology features Dennis Crowley (foursquare). Rafat Ali (paidContent) moderates. - DLD

Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of foursquare, a service that mixes social, locative and gaming elements to encourage people explore the cities in which they live. Previously, Crowley founded dodgeball.com, which was acquired by Google in 2005. He has been named one of the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" by MIT's Technology Review magazine and has won the "Fast Money" bonus round on the TV game show "Family Feud." His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Time Magazine, Newsweek, MTV, Slashdot and NBC. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Crowley holds a Master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a Bachelor's degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

How Steve Wozniak Brought Color to Personal Computers

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:25:24 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/01/Steve_Wozniak_Creativity_in_the_21st_Century

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recalls the moment he stumbled upon the idea of how to put color into personal computers. The inspiration came during a sleepless four-day and four-night design session while building the Atari game Breakout. "That was probably one of the biggest things Apple ever did," he says.

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Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and philanthropist in conversation at the Discovery Forum 2010 with Emmy-award winning journalist Dana King from CBS 5 Eyewitness News.

Renowned technology pioneer Steve Wozniak speaks to the importance of hands-on learning and encouraging creativity, and how the Bay Area Discovery Museum is a critical resource for preparing children for the challenges of the 21st century.

The Discovery Forum serves to increase awareness about the importance of childhood creativity, and raises support for the Museum's educational exhibitions and programs. - Bay Area Discovery Museum

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators.

In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for "single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers."

Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak "adopted" the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.

Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless Internet platform.

Vint Cerf - The 'Intercloud' and the Future of Computing

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:55:50 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/07/Whats_Next_with_the_Internet_Vint_Cerf_Looks_Ahead

"Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf offers his predictions on the future of cloud computing, stressing the importance of interconnecting disparate clouds into a single network. "We're at the same point now in 2010 with Intercloud as we were in '73 with Internet," says Cerf.

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Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google, is the person most often called "the father of the Internet." His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The Churchill Club catches up with Cerf to hear his take on what new opportunities and services today's ever-faster Internet technologies will spawn and what may stand in their way. Cerf is interviewed by Jessica Vascellaro, tech reporter for The Wall Street Journal. - Churchill Club

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced Internet-based products and services from Google. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.

Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science," in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens.

Beyond E-Books: The Future of Digital Storytelling

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:47:48 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/23/Once_Upon_These_Times_New_Stories_for_New_Audiences

Penguin UK digital publisher Jeremy Ettinghausen discusses the "We Tell Stories" project, which aimed to tell stories using innovative online formats. The project broadcast stories live online as authors wrote them and utilized tools like Twitter and Google Maps.

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Matt Locke of Channel 4 Education and Jeremy Ettinghausen of Penguin Books discuss how hyper-connectivity, interactive media and the changing demands of 21st century audiences are transforming stories and storytelling.

They discuss how broadcasters and publishers are responding to this shift and share some tips for producing compelling storytelling experiences. - PICNIC 2009

Jeremy Ettinghausen is Digital Publisher at Penguin UK and has been responsible for a number of high profile digital initiatives including the Penguin Remix competition and the collaborative wikinovel, A Million Penguins.

He recently brought William Gibson into Second Life and says "No publisher should ever have to buy skin, virtual or real, for an author."

Jonathan Zittrain - Mechanical Turk and the Danger of Digital Sweatshops

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:58:33 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/19/Minds_For_Sale_The_Future_of_the_Internet

Professor Jonathan Zittrain offers some background on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing marketplace that pays small amounts of money for "human intelligence tasks." He analyzes the social implications of paying workers as little as a penny per task.

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Imagine a future in which passengers on a subway stare into screens for a few minutes - and earn as much money in that time as their respective skills and stations allow.

New projects like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and LiveOps are making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace. Zittrain discusses a future in which human computing is ubiquitous and nearly any mental act can be bought and sold. - The Commonwealth Club of California

Jonathan L. Zittrain is an American professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Previously, Zittrain was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford and visiting professor at the New York University School of Law and Stanford Law School. He is the author, most recently, of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It; and co-editor of the book Access Denied.

Amanda Congdon was the co-producer and host of a weekly vidcast for ABC. She has an independent videoblog, Starring Amanda Congdon. However, she is probably best known for hosting the daily news show Rocketboom, which she hosted and produced until 23 June 2006.

The ICON A5: A Plane You Can Park in the Garage

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:53:13 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/01/Kirk_Hawkins__Steen_Strand_on_Designing_the_ICON_A5

Steen Strand and Kirk Hawkins, founders of ICON Aircraft, describe the features of their groundbreaking A5 light-sport aircraft. They show video demonstrating the personal aircraft handles more like a Jet Ski than a Cessna.

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Kirk and Steen speak to design's power to unleash new markets. They tell the story of how ICON Aircraft set out to maximize the vast potential of the FAA's regulatory changes by creating, for the first time, a recreational powersport for flying.

They discuss the challenges in the development of the ICON A5, an airplane that makes flying more accessible, safer, and more enticing than ever before. - IDEO Know How Talks

Before graduating from Stanford Business School in 2005 and founding ICON, Kirk Hawkins flew F-16s in the U.S. Air Force and 767s for American Airlines. Prior to the USAF, he worked in both aviation and aerospace engineering most of his early career.

After earning his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University, he was the Director of Engineering at an aerospace contractor before returning for his Masters in Engineering from Stanford University in 1995, specializing in manufacturing.

Steen Strand is a seasoned sports product entrepreneur with 14 years of hands-on operational startup experience. Strand's expertise is in product design, marketing and brand building. Early in his career he worked at IDEO, one of the world's leading design consultancies before founding Freebord, a skateboard company with a global subculture of fanatical riders.

He later served as COO and Director of Product at Secara, a funded healthcare startup. Steen received his MS in Product Design from Stanford University, where he periodically instructs courses in Product Design. Steen's designs have been featured in numerous TV shows, websites and magazines, including Time, Forbes, Newsweek and Wired.

Ken Auletta - Would You Pay for Online News?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:27:45 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/10/Googled_The_End_of_the_World_As_We_Know_It

"Googled" author Ken Auletta delves into the problems online news sites like the Wall Street Journal would face if they blocked search engines from indexing articles. Comparing Internet companies to early broadcast networks, Auletta argues for finding another income strategy to supplement advertising revenues.

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Ken Auletta talks about Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Auletta tells the story of how Google formed and crashed into traditional media businesses -- from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft.

With unprecedented access to Google's founders and executives, Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined. - Book Passage

Ken Auletta is a New Yorker contributor whose work on "The Information Age" helped popularize the idea of the information super highway. His books include Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way and Backstory: Inside the Business of News.

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin on the Future of Google Books

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:52:28 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/22/A_Conversation_with_Googles_Sergey_Brin

Sergey Brin responds to criticism Google has received concerning its project to digitize and store millions of the world's books online. "I've been surprised at the level of controversy there," says Brin, but maintains that he's "optimistic" the project will be a success.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin makes a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 summit to talk with John Battelle about the future of the company. They discuss Google's current projects like Android and Chrome, as well as the competition they face from sites like Facebook and Bing. - Web 2.0 Summit

Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his master's degree. Sergey is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship as well as an honorary MBA from Instituto de Empresa. It was at Stanford where he met Larry Page and worked on the project that became Google. Together they founded Google Inc. in 1998, and Sergey continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.

Sergey's research interests include search engines, information extraction from unstructured sources, and data mining of large text collections and scientific data. He has published more than a dozen academic papers, including Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web; Dynamic Data Mining: A New Architecture for Data with High Dimensionality, which he published with Larry Page; Scalable Techniques for Mining Casual Structures; Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data; and Beyond Market Baskets: Generalizing Association Rules to Correlations.

John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author. Currently founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing, he is also a founder and executive producer of conferences in the media, technology, communications, and entertainment industries and "band manager" with BoingBoing.net.

Tech Doesn't Care About You: Gary Vaynerchuk Celebrates Death of Old Media

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:44:22 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/23/CRUSH_IT_Gary_Vaynerchuk

With trillions in ad revenue ready to trickle down to hyper-niche Internet entrepreneurs, social media phenomenon and wine expert Gary Vaynerchuk declares that old media is all but dead. "Things only go forward," says Vaynerchuk. "Technology has no feelings."

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Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night?

Meet Gary Vaynerchuk, a 33-year-old self-trained wine and social media expert who has revolutionized the wine industry. Gary's cult-like following is the result of his unconventional, often irreverent commentary on wine, combined with his business acumen and foresight to use social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to reach an untapped audience.

He hosts a daily webcast called "The Thunder Show" on tv.winelibrary.com that attracts over 90,000 viewers each day. Recently, his podcast become the most downloaded show on iTunes in the Food category, beating out venerable names in the industry including Martha Stewart and Jamie Oliver.

Called the "king of social media," Gary is one of the first Facebook users to max out his friend limit, with over 17,000 pending friend requests. He is in the top 100 people followed on Twitter and was the keynote speaker at events like the 2009 South of Southwest Interactive conference and the New Media and Web 2.0 expos.

With CRUSH IT! he shows how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand.

Step-by-step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driver's manual for modern business. - Booksmith

Nick Douglas - Is Twitter Shortening Our Attention Spans?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:17:37 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/24/Twitter_Wit_Nick_Douglas_and_Guests

Nick Douglas, author of Twitter Wit, defends Twitter against accusations that it is contributing to shortened attention spans. Douglas draws from the example of a user named "shitmydadsays" to demonstrate how people are using the medium to create continuous story lines and build characters.

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In Twitter Wit, Nick Douglas has collected the best tweets out there. Douglas has assembled these aphorisms to champion the wit and wisdom that is shared among Twitter users.

Funny, astute, and perfectly economical, these 140-character pieces of perspective reveal how Twitter users can be philosophical, hilarious, and literary in a way that appeals to our contemporary (short) attention span. With submissions ranging from quotidian vignettes like "I bet in Sweden the Ikea instructions are in English," to bumper sticker-type quips like "I think the bird of love is the dove. My husband thinks it's the swallow," Twitter Wit has something in it that we can all relate to.

And with contributors ranging from celebrities like Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Rainn Wilson, Russell Brand and John Hodgman to regular people with previously unappreciated sharp tongues, readers are sure to find new Twitter users to follow.

Featuring a foreword by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, this authorized anthology of the thousand most clever and memorable tweets relates the diversity of human experience in hilarious bite-sized pieces. - Booksmith

Nick Douglas is a technology writer and humorist known for bringing a sarcastic viewpoint to the usually dry world of tech journalism.

The founding editor of Valleywag, Gawker Media's blog about Silicon Valley, Douglas has also written for Wired, Slate, and the Huffington Post, among others. Douglas boasts over 9,000 followers on Twitter, making him one of the top 200 users on the site. He lives in New York City. Visit his website www.toomuchnick.com.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Bashes 'Cloud Computing' Hype

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:34:55 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/21/Oracle_CEO_Larry_Ellison_Unscripted

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison mocks the "cloud computing" hype that has smitten the "nitwits on Sand Hill Road." "It's not water vapor," he says, "it is a computer attached to a network."

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Larry Ellison is one of the most successful business leaders in the world today. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Ellison speak his mind about the future of tech, the industry, the world, and more, in conversation with tech veteran Ed Zander.

Industry giants Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO, and Ed Zander, former CEO, Motorola, and former president of Sun Microsystems, take the stage in this rare, unscripted discussion. - Churchill Club

Larry Ellison has been CEO of Oracle Corporation since he founded the company in 1977. He also races sailboats, flies planes, and plays tennis and guitar.

Jonathan Zittrain - Internet Privacy and the Star Wars Kid

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:01:29 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/15/Jonathan_Zittrain_The_Future_of_the_Internet

Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain uses the Star Wars kid viral video to discuss issues of online privacy. While mainstream media never thought to protect the minor's identity, Wikipedians argued to delete his surname out of courtesy, not because they feared being sued.

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Jonathan Zittrain talks about the internet within the context of his book: The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It. - Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

Jonathan L. Zittrain is an American professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Previously, Zittrain was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford and visiting professor at the New York University School of Law and Stanford Law School. He is the author, most recently, of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It; and co-editor of the book Access Denied.

Panel: Can 'Citizen Science' Revolutionize Medicine?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:47:53 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/28/Making_the_Web_Work_for_Science

Tim O'Reilly, Jimmy Wales, Stephen Friend, and John Wilbanks discuss the future implications of citizen science. Friend discusses how individuals with a rare disease can contribute to the public knowledge pool, while Jimmy Wales offers the example of a pet diabetes wiki.

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Digital technologies have greatly enhanced our ability to communicate and share information, but the scientific community remains largely untouched by these advances.

Why doesn't the web work for science the way it works for culture and for commerce? What will it take to make science digital?

Join the Commonwealth Club of California for a fascinating discussion on the movement to bring digital methods to the world of science. - Commonwealth Club of California

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference.

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama) is the founder, board member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects, including Wiktionary and Wikinews. He is also the co-founder, along with Angela Beesley, of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.

As VP of Science, John Wilbanks runs the Science Commons project at Creative Commons. He came to Creative Commons from a Fellowship at the World Wide Web Consortium in Semantic Web for Life Sciences.

Dr. Stephen Friend is currently a Senior Vice President at Merck and Co., Inc. where he has had scientific leadership of Merck's Basic Cancer Research efforts since September 2002. In 2005, he led the Advanced Technologies and Oncology groups to firmly establish molecular profiling activities throughout Merck's laboratories around the world, as well as to coordinate oncology programs from Basic Research through phase IIA clinical trials.

Aneesh Chopra - High Tech Solutions for Federal Government

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:53:57 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/04/An_Evening_with_Aneesh_Chopra_CTO_of_the_US

Chief Technology Officer of the United States Aneesh Chopra offers his short-, medium- and long-term goals to keep the government from falling behind the technology curve. Among these initiatives is the website defensesolutions.gov.

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Aneesh Chopra was appointed by President Barack Obama as the nation's first Chief Technology Officer in April 2009, with the mandate to promote technological innovation to help the country meet its most urgent priorities - from creating jobs and reducing health care costs to keeping our nation secure. - Churchill Club

Aneesh Chopra is the Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology as well as having previously served as Managing Director for the Advisory Board Company, leading the firm’s Financial Leadership Council and the Working Council for Health Plan Executives.

On announcing Chopra's appointment, President Obama outlined his aims for the CTO. "As Chief Technology Officer, Chopra's job will be to promote technological innovation to help the country meet its goals such as job creation, reducing health care costs, and protecting the homeland. Together with Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, their jobs are to make the government more effective, efficient, and transparent."

Does Video Game Journalism Have a Future?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:51:54 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/20/Video_Game_Journalism--Who_Cares

N'Gai Croal, and Seth Schiesel discuss the impacts of advertising on video game journalism. Schiesel warns that if video game marketing doesn't target a broader audience, the industry will "go down just like comic books in this country. You will always be marginalized."

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A panel of leading video game journalists discuss the uncertain future of video game journalism. Led by Insomniac Games President and CEO Ted Price, they explore the challenges of reporting on video games, as well as the new opportunities that are arising as video games begin to enter the mainstream. - D.I.C.E. Summit

N'Gai Croal has been General Editor of Newsweek since December 1999. He has written about technology since he joined Newsweek in February 1995 as an associate editor.

Geoff Keighley has spent more than half his life covering the video game business as a journalist, television personality, and producer. Today, he serves as both host and executive producer of "GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley," the #1 rated video game show on TV, and has an overarching talent and development deal with MTV Networks Entertainment Group.

Seth Schiesel is an American technology journalist. He writes a variety of columns and special reports for the New York Times on the gaming industry and the role of gaming in American society.

Chris Anderson: 'Free' YouTube is a Moneymaker

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:28:12 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/16/Chris_Anderson_on_FREE_The_Future_of_Radical_Price

In response to Malcolm Galdwell's review of FREE in The New Yorker, WIRED editor and author Chris Anderson expands on the ways Google makes money from YouTube's free services. "Google wants you to use the Internet," says Anderson. "Your actions let Google make more money by selling ads."

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Chris Anderson is the Editor in Chief of WIRED magazine and author of The Long Tail and FREE: The Future of Radical Price. The Long Tail concept has found broad ground for application, research and emperimentation. Now, in FREE, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. - Los Angeles Public Library

Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining Wired in 2001, he worked at The Economist, where he launched their coverage of the Internet. He also has a degree in physics from George Washington University and did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has also worked at the prestigious journals Nature and Science.

Become a Guantanamo Detainee in Second Life

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:11:27 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Animating_Human_Rights_Games_Animation_and_Multimedia

Peggy Weil offers images from a Guantanamo Bay simulation in the online role-playing game Second Life. "You find yourself transported and shackled into a cage; it's a powerful experience," she says.

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Recent innovations in science and technology have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and to disseminate this information in real time throughout the world.

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley is pleased to showcase these recent developments and push new frontiers of applied research. - Human Rights Center, UC-Berkeley

Peggy Weil, Visiting Assistant Professor, USC-SCA Interactive Media Division, is a digital media artist and designer focusing on interactive and immersive design. As a member of the original Architecture Machine Group (now the M.I.T. Media Lab) she worked on pioneering interactive projects going on to create titles for The Voyager Company, Broderbund, Electronic Arts, Von Holtzbrinck and Ravensburger Interactive including the award winning titles, A Silly Noisy House and Moving Puzzle. She was creative producer and designer for the Redistricting Game, a USC Annenberg Center sponsored project to increase voter awareness about congressional redistricting. Current projects include Gone Gitmo, a virtual installation of Guantanamo Prison and Mauerkrankheit (Wallsickness), a visualization of the world's border fences.

SETI@home: Discover ET Using Your Home Computer

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:37:17 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/Dan_Werthimer_Presents_SETIhome

Dan Werthimer describes the role of the SETI@home project in the search for extraterrestrials. He explains how data from the world's largest telescope is being analyzed by millions of networked computers around the world. The SETI@home software has created "the biggest supercomputer on the planet."

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Are We Alone? Chief SETI@home scientist Dan Werthimer discusses the possibility of life in the universe, and how to set-up your computer to possibly detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.

Following on President Obama's call to "begin again the work of remaking America," Maker Faire 2009 was organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area, Maker Faire celebrates what President Obama called "the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things." - Maker Faire 2009

Dan Werthimer is chief scientist of SETI@home and of several radio and optical SETI programs at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rodney Brooks - Our Robot Future

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:54:18 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/Rodney_Brooks_Remaking_Manufacturing_With_Robotics

Rodney Brooks, former iRobot CTO, describes the limitations of today's "stiff" factory robots. Looking forward, Brooks envisions a future where people interact with robots in the same way we now work with computers.

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Heartland Robotics Chairman and CTO Rodney Brooks asks: What will it take for robots to be added to the toolchest of the makers of American manufacturing, so that they can increase productivity, provide better jobs for American workers, and compete even more strongly in our globalized world?

Following on President Obama's call to "begin again the work of remaking America," Maker Faire 2009 was organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area, Maker Faire celebrates what President Obama called "the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things." - Maker Faire 2009

Dr. Rodney Brooks is a robotics entrepreneur and Founder, Chairman and CTO of Heartland Robotics, Inc. He is also a Founder, Board Member and former CTO (1991 - 2008) of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT) and the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (on leave) at MIT. Dr. Brooks is the former Director (1997 - 2007) of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and then the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981. He held research positions at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT, and a faculty position at Stanford before joining the faculty of MIT in 1984. He has published many papers and books in computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics, and artificial life.

Privacy vs Convenience in Personal Genetic Tech

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:18:59 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/19/A_Closer_Look_at_Personal_Genomic_Testing

A panel of DNA policy and research experts connect the openness affiliated with the web 2.0 phenomenon to the growing acceptance for personal genetic testing. "We have a different sensitivity to privacy because there are stigmas in previous generations that we just don't have anymore," says 23andMe co-founder Linda Avey.

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Personal genomic testing (the analysis of the DNA of individuals) is now available for less than $400. The consequences of personal genetic testing are often debated, with advocates arguing that genetic data can lead to improved health care and critics warning that consumers may be unduly worried upon learning results.

California regulations impose conditions on firms providing personal genomic testing. This symposium examines genomic testing technology, its ramifications, government regulation of the industry, and whether individuals should have their genome analyzed. - Commonwealth Club of California

Linda Avey has over 20 years of sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. Prior to starting 23andMe, she developed translational research collaborations with academic and pharmaceutical partners for Affymetrix and Perlegen Sciences.

Daniel Ballon is Senior Policy Fellow in Technology Studies at the Pacific Research Institute. Dr. Ballon's research focuses on policies which promote innovation in the technology sector. He previously spent ten years conducting applied research in biotechnology, and his work has been published in leading biomedical journals.

David C. Magnus, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford University. Magnus is also Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Steve Ballmer: Microsoft 'Like a Startup' in Search

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:24:10 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/06/Steve_Ballmer_Opportunities_in_Difficult_Times

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses his company's plans for developing its search engine services. Ballmer describes Microsoft's position as 'like a startup' compared to that of market leader Google.

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Steven Anthony Ballmer needs no introduction. He has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 24th employee, the first business manager hired by Gates. As a visionary and leader, Steve Ballmer has led Microsoft to the top of the computer software world. - Stanford University

Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. Ballmer and the company's business and technical leaders are focused on continuing Microsoft's innovation and leadership across the company's core businesses. Microsoft's goal is to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experience across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services. Variously described as ebullient, focused, funny, passionate, sincere, hard-charging and dynamic, Ballmer has infused Microsoft with his own brand of energetic leadership, vision and spirit over the years. Ballmer was born in March 1956, and grew up near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Co. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the university literary magazine, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. After college, he worked for two years at Procter and Gamble Co. as an assistant product manager and, before joining Microsoft, attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Pandora Founder Tim Westergren - Will Mobile Music Apps Save the Industry?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:52:40 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/05/The_Rock_Star_Revolution

Pandora founder and CSO Tim Westergren believes geolocation features found on mobile apps like Pandora, imeem, and iLike will provide the music industry a boost by notifying users of nearby concerts. He says the "lifeblood" for musicians will increasingly come from the revenue of live performances.

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A high-powered panel of industry insiders explore the massive effects of the music industry's online presence.

It's nothing short of revolutionary. Within minutes, and with little upfront cost, today's budding rock star can go online to sell CDs and downloads on Amazon; submit music for play on Pandora internet radio; aggregate fans on the hip social network imeem alongside chart-topping megastars; and become involved with the myspacemusic/spinmagazine community.

Industry experts discuss the democratization of the music industry, digital pathways to fame, and the business and legal issues facing this new societal phenomenon.

Tim Westergren founded Pandora in January 2000 and now serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. Tim is an award-winning composer, an accomplished musician and a record producer with 20 years of experience in the music industry. He has recorded with independent labels, managed artists, owned a commercial digital recording studio, scored feature films, produced albums, and performed extensively. His main instrument is the piano, but over the years he has played the bassoon, drums and clarinet and his musical background spans such genres as rock, blues, jazz and classical music. Tim received his B.A. from Stanford University, where he studied computer acoustics and recording technology. A musician's musician, he is obsessed with helping talented emerging artists connect with the music fans most likely to appreciate their music. In addition to guiding Pandora's overall strategy and vision, Tim now spends most of his time as Pandora's chief evangelist - traveling the country to meet with listeners to collect feedback, research local music, and spread the word of the Music Genome Project.

"Sims" Creator Will Wright's Secret to Game Design: Narcissism

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:59:01 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/02/Will_Wright_on_Spore_SimCity_and_the_Sims

Superstar video game designer Will Wright names one of his central premises to game design to be "people are very narcissistic." Wright uses this premise to create games like the Sims, which are founded on elaborate, customizable identities.

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Will Wright, the creator of SimCity, the Sims, and now Spore, speaks with pundit John Battelle about the creative process, user-generated content, and much more.

Will Wright is an American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company, Maxis. He is best known as the original designer of groundbreaking computer games such as SimCity, The Sims and Spore.

Tim O'Reilly - Is Twitter Revolutionizing the Web?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:30:49 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/02/Tim_OReilly_Talks_Web_20

Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, argues that microblogging service Twitter is changing real-time information search in a way that will revolutionize the web. O'Reilly goes on to discuss the impact web search engines like Google have had on shaping human/computer interactivity.

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FORA.tv Studios presents Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, speaking to Blaise Zerega, President and CEO of FORA.tv, about the origins of Web 2.0, the rise of Twitter and the investment that got away.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of MySQL, CollabNet, Safari Books Online, Wesabe, and ValuesOfN, and is a partner in O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Blaise Zerega comes to FORA.tv from Conde Nast Portfolio where he served as deputy editor and led the magazine's technology coverage. Prior to holding that position, Zerega was managing editor and played a critical role in the launch of both Portfolio.com and the magazine. Both properties have earned the highest industry honors. Before joining Portfolio, Zerega was the managing editor of WIRED. He helped Wired earn numerous prizes, including a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2004 and another for the Single-Topic Issue category in 2002. Wired was also named best magazine in America by the Chicago Tribune in 2004. Zerega was also the editor of Red Herring magazine, once the bible of Silicon Valley, and the news editor at Forbes ASAP. Zerega makes frequent media appearances and has been on such programs as Today and The View as well as on NPR and CNN. He graduated from New York University and received his graduate degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin.

Nicholas Negroponte's XO-1 ($100 Laptop) in the Wild

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:39:14 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/12/13/Nicholas_Negropontes_XO-1_100_Laptop_in_the_Wild

One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte discusses the release and global impact of the XO-1, formerly known as the $100 Laptop, from Uruguay to Afghanistan.

EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordinary gatherings about learning and understanding. EG is a rich extension of these ideas - a conference that explores the attitude of understanding in music, film, television, radio, technology, advertising, gaming, interactivity and the web - The Entertainment Gathering

Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. A graduate of MIT, Negroponte was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. Conceived in 1980, the Media Laboratory opened its doors in 1985. He is also author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages. In the private sector, Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc. and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. Negroponte has provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies, including Wired magazine.

Bill Joy: iPhone and Kindle are Creativity Unleashed

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:27:32 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/11/Bill_Joy_in_Conversation_with_Brent_Schlender

American computer scientist Bill Joy predicts that the next big disruption in the technology ecosystem will be the touchscreen tablet computer. Joy sees the thousands of iPhone apps, in particular, to offer "new opportunities for ideas to flourish."

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Bill Joy has been called, among other things, "The Edison of the Internet," for his role in inventing and perfecting some of the most important networking and software innovations upon which today's Web operates.

Many of those creations predated his cofounding of Sun Microsystems, a company that reached the billion dollar sales mark quicker than any computer hardware company in history.

But over the years, Joy also has acted as the intellectual conscience of Silicon Valley, warning of the excesses of the Dot Com Bubble long before others, cautioning proponents of bio-engineering not to race too far ahead of their understanding of the full consequences of their genetic tinkering, and raising early alarms of the dangers of computer viruses and other nefarious forms of software technology.

And today, as a partner at the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Joy is playing a key role in reorienting much of Silicon Valley's capacity to invent toward "green" technologies.

During this conversation at the Churchill Club, Joy and Schlender discuss how the process of technological innovation has morphed in good ways and bad during their three decades in Silicon Valley. They muse about how the primary unit of output of the Valley is no longer the transistor or the line of code, but the targeted advertisement.

They explore Joy's notion that the driving force behind innovation in the future will not so much be the search for financial advantages from making digital technology better and faster and cheaper, but instead be a quest for solutions to the dire environmental and energy crises that loom before us.

And, they look at how this new sense of urgency is driving Silicon Valley back to the basics of science and technology.

Bill Joy is an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003.

Brent Schlender is a Writer/Editor/Consultant who is a former FORTUNE Magazine Editor at Large. He also has served as the Deputy Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal.

Jeff Jarvis - What Can Detroit Learn from Google?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:49:19 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/18/Jeff_Jarvis_What_Would_Google_Do

Journalist Jeff Jarvis discusses how to make the auto industry "Googley." "If [automakers] came out with an API for the car," he asks, "what could people build on top of it?"

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Named one of 100 worldwide media leaders, Jeff Jarvis discusse his book, What Would Google Do? - Books, Inc.

Jeff Jarvis is an American journalist. He is the former television critic for TV Guide and People magazine, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. Until recently he was president and creative director of Advance Internet, the online arm of Advance Publications, where he developed the children's educational site "Yuckiest Site on the Internet" with Susan Mernit. Jarvis currently consults for Advance Internet. He has also consulted for the New York Times Company at About.com, where he worked on content development and strategy. In 2006 he became an associate professor at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism, directing its new media program. He has a fortnightly column in the MediaGuardian supplement of the British newspaper The Guardian.

Chad Hurley and Mark Zuckerberg - YouTube and Facebook Five Years from Now

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:30:03 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/30/The_Next_Digital_Experience

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington asks YouTube CEO Chad Hurley and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg what their respective companies may look like five years into the future.

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Social networking applications and sophisticated mobile devices are combining elements of the real and virtual worlds, and delivering an augmented experience of reality.

How is this digital experience changing consumers and communities? - World Economic Forum

Chad Hurley is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer known for creating Facebook, an online social directory, with the help of Harvard roommates Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. The site is used by over 12.5 million people at over 2,200 universities, 22,000 high schools, and 2,000 companies around the world.

J. Michael Arrington is a entrepreneur and was the maintainer of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere. Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.

Craig Newmark: Trolls Would Disrupt Gov't Attempts at Social Media

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:13:31 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/09/Wiki_White_House_Can_Obama_Use_Tech_to_Transform_Govt

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark discusses problems with opening up civic discussion to the online public. He warns of "trolls" who "pick fights to get attention" and suggests ways to circumvent First Amendment issues associated with moderating discussion forums hosted by the federal government.

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Technology evangelists believe that Barack Obama has the potential to fundamentally alter communication between the presidency and the people.

Wikis in the White House? Online public comments on legislation? A real-time two-way conversation between citizens and their elected officials?

For better or worse, however, nothing is as easy as it might seem. Federal regulations, First Amendment issues, and just plain common sense are going to slow -- and potentially stagnate -- technological innovation in Washington.

Panelists discussed their hopes for a more transparent Obama administration and the challenges to a more open and participatory government - New America Foundation

Craig Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based website Craigslist.

Ralph Osterhout - Toys That Find Their Way Into Combat

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:38:40 -0800

Ralph Osterhout describes the "perverse symbiotic relationship" between the children's toy industry and military innovation.

EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordinary gatherings about learning and understanding. EG is a rich extension of these ideas - a conference that explores the attitude of understanding in music, film, television, radio, technology, advertising, gaming, interactivity and the web - The Entertainment Gathering

Known as a serial productizer of technology, Ralph Osterhout regularly ricochets between Advanced military Systems, High-tech Toys, Electronic Intelligence and Consumer Products. His major customers are the Department of Defense, major Toy Companies and perfromance-oriented product companies, worldwide. The common thread: high performance, low cost and meaningful innovation.

Tan Le - Mind Control Device Demonstration

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:38:40 -0800

Tan Le, co-founder and president of Emotiv Systems, gives a live demo of a mind control device that uses a person's thoughts to input computer commands.

EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordinary gatherings about learning and understanding. EG is a rich extension of these ideas - a conference that explores the attitude of understanding in music, film, television, radio, technology, advertising, gaming, interactivity and the web - The Entertainment Gathering

Tan Le is an Australian telecommunications entrepreneur, businesswoman and the 1998 Young Australian of the Year. She is president and co-founder of Emotiv Systems.

Peter Diamandis on the The X Prize: Innovation Through Competition

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:48:50 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/12/Peter_Diamandis-Long-Term_X_Prizes

Peter Diamandis explains the ideas behind his X PRIZE Foundation, an organization designed to inspire scientific and technological breakthroughs by hosting high-profile, high-payoff competitions.

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Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, speaks at the Long Now Foundation about the history of the X Prize.

The goal of the 10 million dollar prize is to benefit humanity and Diamandis details some of the effects of this generous prize.

Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which awarded the $10,000,000 Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight. Diamandis is now focused on building the X PRIZE Foundation into a world-class prize institute whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The X PRIZE is now developing X PRIZEs in fields such as Genomics, Automotive, Education, Medicine, Energy, and Social arenas.

Diamandis is an international leader in the commercial space arena, having founded and run many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in this sector. Diamandis also serves as the Chairman and CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation a commercial space company developing private, FAA-certified parabolic flight utilize Boeing 727-200 aircraft. He is the Chairman and co-founder of the Rocket Racing League. Diamandis is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Space Adventures, the company which brokered the launches of four private citizens to the International Space Station.

Dr. Diamandis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his undergraduate degree in molecular genetics and graduate degree in aerospace engineering. After MIT he attended Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. In 2005 he has was also awarded an honorary Doctorate from the International Space University.

He is the winner of the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Innovation, the 2006 Heinlein Award, the 2006 Lindbergh Award, the 2006 Wired RAVE Award, the 2006 Neil Armstrong Award for Aerospace Achievement and Leadership, the Konstantine Tsiolkovsky Award, twice the winner of the Aviation & Space Technology Laurel, and the 2003 World Technology Award for Space.

David Hardaker - How Bloggers are Empowering Egyptian Media

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:29:08 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/15/How_TV_and_the_Internet_are_Changing_Arab_Politics

ABC News correspondent David Hardaker examines how Egypt's traditional news outlets are relying on internet bloggers to circumvent state control of the media.

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Satellite television and the internet have broken Arab governments' stranglehold on information, forcing regimes to react in order to control a growing channel for organised dissent.

Acclaimed former ABC journalist David Hardaker explores how the 'new media' in the Middle East is changing Arab politics and what local regimes are trying to do to stop it - The Lowy Institute for International Policy

David Hardaker was appointed ABC News Middle East correspondent in 2006. As a senior reporter and presenter David Hardaker has covered the biggest domestic and international stories for the ABC.

He has worked on a number of the ABC’s flagship television programs, from Four Corners to The 7.30 Report to Foreign Correspondent. On radio David has been reporter, presenter and executive producer on the network’s daily current affairs programmes, AM, PM and The World Today.

David joined the ABC after working at the Nine Network’s “60 Minutes” program where he specialised in investigations.

David was born in Australia but has a special passion for languages and speaks Arabic, French, German and Italian.

Jimmy Wales and Andrew Keen - Has the Internet Killed Print Journalism?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:52:36 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/28/Jimmy_Wales_and_Andrew_Keen_Debate_Web_2_0

Wikipedia co-creator Jimmy Wales debates internet cultural critic Andrew Keen on the fate of print journalism in the digital age.

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Web 2.0: Amateur Hour or Mass-ive Knowledge? A debate with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and author Andrew Keen. NPR's David Ewing Duncan moderates.

In today's self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion can post a video on YouTube, change an entry on Wikipedia or publish reviews on Yelp, we increasingly turn to the collective intelligence of large numbers of people.

Should we rely on the "wisdom of the crowds," trusting that they are smarter than the expert few? Or is Web 2.0 weakening traditional media to the point where we only have opinion and chaos? - The Commonwealth Club of California

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama) is the founder, board member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects, including Wiktionary and Wikinews. He is also the co-founder, along with Angela Beesley, of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.

Andrew Keen is a Silicon Valley author, broadcaster and entrepreneur whose provocative book Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture was recently acclaimed by The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani as "shrewdly argued" and written "with acuity and passion."

Bill Weihl - Three Steps to Greener Computing

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:56:54 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/06/Computers_and_Climate_Change_Panel

What are the top three things consumers can do to conserve computer energy? Expert Bill Weihl recommends employing power management features, purchasing Energy Star and EPEAT approved computers, and demanding clean energy from manufacturers.

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The digital age continues to improve our quality of life, but advanced computing technology has thus far meant greater energy consumption that has taken a heavy environmental toll.

This panel of energy experts will explore how computers contribute to and can help solve today's most pressing environmental challenges - The Commonwealth Club of California

Bill Weihl is currently working on clean energy at Google. Before joining Google in early 2006, he was CTO at Akamai Technologies, where he led efforts to provide customers with more powerful computing capabilities on edge servers. He has also worked on distributed and parallel computing and on cpu architecture, first as a professor at MIT and then as a researcher at DEC's Systems Research Center (SRC).

David Ewing Duncan - Breakthroughs in Genetic Life Extension

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:22:41 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/15/Creative_Disruptions_David_Ewing_Duncan

David Ewing Duncan, co-host of NPR's "Biotech Nation," outlines new scientific breakthroughs in aging research.

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David Ewing Duncan discusses Creative Disruptions as a part of The Ethical Frontiers of Science during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series. Topics include biotechnology, modern medical ethics, and research innovations. This program was recorded in Chautauqua, NY, on July 15, 2008.

David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of six books and numerous essays, articles and short stories, and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent. He is the co-host of NPR's Biotech Nation.

Duncan's most recent book is Masterminds: Genius, DNA and the Quest to Rewrite Life (Harper Perennial), previously titled The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with My DNA… and other masterminds from the frontiers of biotech (William Morrow/HarperCollins). His last book was the international bestseller Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (Harper-Collins/Avon), published in 19 languages, and a bestseller in 14 countries. He is currently at work on Healing Touch: From Shaman's Magic to Digital People, One Man's Intimate Examination.

David is a Contributing Editor to Wired, and Discover, and a science columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition and co-host of BioTech Nation on NPR. He has been a special correspondent and producer for ABC's Nightline and 20/20, and a producer for Discovery Television. He is a correspondent for NOVA's ScienceNow!

. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic, Fortune and MIT Technology Review, and was a longtime correspondent for Life. He also writes for Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Outside, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Washington Post Book World, and The New York Times, among others. He contributes to the Dialogues column for Discover.

Stuff White People Like no. 105: Unpaid Internships

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:12:56 -0800

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/23/Christian_Lander_Stuff_White_People_Like

Blogger Christian Lander reads entry number 105 from his satirical list of "Stuff White People Like" - "Unpaid Internships."

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Author and blogger Christian Lander on "Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions."

From kickball and dinner parties to graduate school, recycling, and knowing what's best for poor people, Lander, the Los Angeles based blogger, has been keeping track of the trends, ideas, and tendencies dear to the hearts of the majority demographic - Politics and Prose

Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book.

Craig Venter - Biofuels from Ocean Life?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:43:13 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/30/New_Ideas_New_Fuels_Craig_Venter_at_the_Oxonian

Geneticist Craig Venter discusses his work with Synthetic Genomics, where he studied carbon feeding organisms in ocean sinks. Venter argues that these organisms hold a unique potential to create biofuels and may be the future for chemistry and the fuel industry.

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The man who mapped the human genome has a new focus: using microbes to create alternative fuels. Craig Venter, maverick biologist, wants to cure our addiction to oil. To do so, he proposes creating a designer microbe -- the heart of a biological engine -- from scratch, then adding genes culled from the sea to turn crops such as switch grass and cornstalks into ethanol.

This could prompt a major shift in the economics of the energy industry and in the process bring Venter to a secondary goal: showing the world he can be as successful as he was at sequencing human DNA.  Venter, a former Vietnam medic, brought about a paradigm shift in genomic sequencing that has entered him in the mythology of science.

He wanted to play God, so he cracked the human genome. Now he wants to play Darwin and collect the DNA of everything on the planet. Venter has graced the covers of Time and BusinessWeek - The Hudson Union Society

J. Craig Venter, PH.D. is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his contributions to genomic research and is one of the country's most frequently cited scientists. He is Founder and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute and J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, not-for-profit research and support organizations dedicated to human genomic research, exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics, and alternative energy solutions through microbial sources. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR).

Dr. Venter's autobiography A Life Decoded was published in October of 2007.

Sandra Day O'Connor on the Interactive Civics Game "Our Courts"

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:50:07 -0700

Video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/04/Games_for_Change_Sandra_Day_OConnor

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor discusses "Our Courts," an interactive civics studies game she helped produce, during her closing remarks at the 2008 Games for Change Festival. This program was recorded in collaboration with the New School, in New York, NY, on June 4, 2008.

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The festival will explore real-world impact, the latest games and funding strategies. Expert practitioners -- academics, activists, non-profits, funders -- will be called in to examine the impact of current games, evaluations planned and the ongoing work to build the field - Games For Change

Sandra Day O'Connor (Retired), Associate Justice, was born in El Paso, Texas, March 26, 1930. She received her B.A. and LL.B. from Stanford University. She served as Deputy County Attorney of San Mateo County, California from 1952-1953 and as a civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany from 1954-1957.

From 1958-1960, she practiced law in Maryvale, Arizona, and served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona from 1965-1969. She was appointed to the Arizona State Senate in 1969 and was subsequently reelected to two two-year terms. In 1975 she was elected Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court and served until 1979, when she was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals.

President Reagan nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat September 25, 1981. Justice O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court on January 31, 2006.

Meg Whitman - Guiding eBay from Startup to Success

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:24:32 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/23/Meg_Whitman_Entrepreneurship_and_Innovation

Meg Whitman, Former President and CEO of eBay, discusses the "environment of entrepreneurship" she identifies as the primary reason for the company's success.

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Californians are big believers in the American dream, and for generations, California has been the home of new ideas and new inventions.

Technology, innovation and entrepreneurship have transformed California into one of the largest economies in the world.

To remain a leader, California must continue to foster the right climate for small businesses.

Whitman served as president and CEO of eBay for 10years. During her tenure, eBay expanded globally and developed a culture and infrastructure that turned the company into an unparalleled business success story.

She will discuss why encouraging and rewarding innovation is key to the continued economic success of California and, in turn, the entire country - The Commonwealth Club of California

Margaret Cushing Whitman wasborn August 4, 1956. She was President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008, when she stepped down from her role. She has been a director since March 1998, and continues to serve in that capacity. Whitman joined eBay when it was a small auction website with 30 employees and revenues of more than $4 million. According to Forbes magazine, Whitman was worth an estimated $1.4 billion in 2007.

She is one of only seven women to have been repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine. Whitman was mentioned as a possible Vice Presidential candidate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain until McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Whitman also has singing aspirations and reportedly auditioned for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in August 2008. She is a cousin of the choir's music director, Mack Wilberg.

Alexander Cockburn - Is the Internet an Effective Forum for Debate?

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:47:48 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/27/Battle_of_Ideas_Digital_Commons

Liberal author and columnist Alexander Cockburn argues that the so-called "Digital Commons" has not evolved into an effective forum for public debate.

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"Digital commons: Does new technology add up to a new public sphere?" at the 2007 Battle of Ideas conference hosted by the Institute of Ideas.

New technology has become so closely associated with public engagement, both culturally and politically, that it has been heralded as a new democracy in and of itself. Undoubtedly we are in an era in which people have the freedom to access and create public information like never before, challenging traditional expertise and deference to authority: citizen journalists break stories, bands shoot to No 1 without A and R men from major labels, and presidential candidates connect with their electorate via YouTube.

But how revolutionary is new technology really? Often it is respected off-line institutions that seem to dominate the digital commons, even setting-up shop in Second Life. Add to that 10 Downing Street e-petitions, MPs blogs and the mainstream media flocking online, and is the internet not just coming to reflect the existing power structures of real life? Are multinational corporations and political parties simply using new technology for their own traditional ends? - Institute of Ideas

Alexander Cockburn is co-editor with Jeffrey St. Clair of the twice-monthly muckraking newsletter CounterPunch, whose Web site, www.counterpunch.org, now has a world audience in the millions.

He has established a reputation as one of the foremost reporters and commentators of the left by writing newspaper and magazine columns for three decades. Cockburn's areas of interest include the American political scene, economics, the environment, labour issues and international policy, the perils of conspiracism.

The author of a bi-weekly column for The Nation called Beat the Devil, Cockburn also writes a syndicated newspaper column that is distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate and has appeared regularly in such papers as the Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Examiner, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Detroit Free Press.

Daniel Suarez (aka author Leinad Zeraus) - How "Bots" Control Our Lives

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:52:40 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/08/Daniel_Suarez_Daemon_Bot-Mediated_Reality

Businessman, author, and programmer Daniel Suarez (aka Leinad Zaurus) examines the increasing importance of automated "bots" to everyday society.

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Businessman, author, and programmer Daniel Suarez (aka Leinad Zaurus) discusses the increasingly important role of AI "bots" in our society. He argues that because of our growing reliance on them, along with their increasing complexity and the vast amounts of data they have access to, they are becoming a threat to human autonomy.

An avid gamer and technologist, Daniel Suarez (aka Leinad Zeraus) is a senior IT consultant to Fortune 1000 companies. He has designed enterprise software for the defense, finance, and entertainment industries. Daemon is his first novel.

Rachel Maddow and Eric Schmidt - Google, Privacy, and the Government

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:43:31 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/05/Internet_and_Politics_Eric_Schmidt_and_Rachel_Maddow

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviews Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Google's stance on privacy and government surveillance.

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Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, and Rachel Maddow, Radio Host on Air America, discuss the role of the Internet and Google in the 2008 Presidential election. This program was recorded at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO, on August 28, 2008.

Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D is chairman and CEO of Google, Inc. and a member of the board of directors of Apple, Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University board of trustees.

Since coming to Google, Eric has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Eric shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations.

In 2006, Eric was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which recognized his work on "the development of strategies for the world's most successful Internet search engine company." Eric was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow in 2007. He is also chairman of the board of directors for the New America Foundation.

Rachel Maddow is an American radio personality and political pundit. She is the host of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio and an MSNBC TV host.

Walt Mossberg - Why the iPhone Matters

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:15:22 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/07/Walt_Mossberg_on_the_Internet_and_Rise_of_the_Cell_Phone

New York Times technology columnist Walter Mossberg discusses the technological significance of the popular Apple iPhone.

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Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Mossberg discusses the future of the internet and the rise of the cell phone at the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival, forecasting the fate of the PC and exploring the implications of the iPhone and other smart phones.

Walt Mossberg writes two columns and edits a third for the Wall Street Journal. He also publishes periodic interviews for the Journal and occasional blog posts on their site.

With Kara Swisher, he co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.

Pablos Holman - On Hacking, and How to Hack a Hotel Room

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:52:17 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/09/27/Implementing_Science_Fiction

"Implementing Science Fiction," with Pablos Holman. This program was recorded at the PICNIC'07 conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on September 27, 2007.

Pablos is a futurist, computer security expert, and a notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies.

At Komposite, he consults on bizarre invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies. Previously, Pablos created thigh holsters for cell phones at Tsaya; helped build the worlds smallest PC at OQO; spaceships at Blue Origin; and AI agent systems at Xigo. He is a member of The Shmoo Group of information security professionals, and helped create the Hackerbot, a WiFi-seeking robot. - PICNIC'07

Should Parents Worry About Violent Games? - Gaming Panel

podcasts@fora.tv — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:11:30 -0700

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/04/19/Taming_Gaming_in_Your_Home

Comic book writer Gerard Jones addresses concerns many parents have about violent video games.

This excerpt is taken from a panel discussion entitled "Taming Gaming in Your Home," presented by the Commonwealth Club of California.

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Panel Discussion: "Taming Gaming in Your Home: An Honest Guide to Today's Video Games."

Video and computer games are becoming the entertainment choice of many children as well as adults. Parents are concerned about the amount of time their children spend with games as well as the appropriateness of the content.

Parents should play an important role in guiding their children's video game playing habits, and playing computer and video games can be a positive family experience. Our expert panel covers issues of content rating systems, parental controls in consoles and PCs, advice for checking in and better understanding your family's gaming habits, and how to participate - The Commonwealth Club

Gerard Jones is an award-winning author and comic book writer. From 1989 to 2001 he wrote many comic books for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Viz Comics, the Ultraverse and other publishers, including Green Lantern, Justice League, El Diablo, Wonder Man, The Shadow, Pokemon, and Batman.