Dr. Isabel Hawkins is an astronomer and an educator at San Francisco’s Exploratorium. She shares how she developed a fascination for stars from an early age and how she pursued her interests and became an astronomer. But, how does one become an astronomer? What are some of the practical applications of studying astronomy? Dr. Hawkins describes… Continue Reading
Shivani Govil was VP, Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Products at SAP Ariba when we recorded this conversation. She is now EVP of Emerging Tech and Ecosystem, Sage, an enterprise software company. We sat down with Govil to find out about there work in artificial intelligence and big data and how she got interested in science and… Continue Reading
Director Stanley Nelson’s new documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool makes for an absorbing watch. Nelson uses rare archival footage, photos and interviews with musicians to paint us a complex picture of this famous and complicated musician and composer. The film is named after the 1957 seminal album Birth of Cool, which is considered as an… Continue Reading
Very excited to share that Western Reserve Public Media, a PBS affiliate in Ohio starts broadcasting our 5-part series with Silicon Valley pioneers Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld. The series airs on WNEO’s Fusion channel starting on Monday, Aug 5, 2019 at 8.30 pm. Atkinson and Hertzfeld joined Apple Computers in the late 1970s and were… Continue Reading
Science, education and teaching is what Dr. Julie Yu is passionate about and that is what keeps her engaged in her role as a Senior Scientists at the Exploratorium, San Francisco. We bring you a 2-part conversation with Dr. Yu. We sat down with her to find out how she developed an interest in… Continue Reading
Lois Vossen is executive producer at Independent Lens, PBS in San Francisco. This clip is a highlight of our upcoming 2-part interview with Vossen, who shares how she grew up in a farm in Minnesota and never dreamt that one day she would be living in San Francisco and working with filmmakers. Imagine her utter… Continue Reading
Tracy Edwards is a trailblazer, who was the captain of the first all-female sailing crew that sailed around the world. This was in 1989 when Edwards and her crew successfully participated and completed the Whitbread race. They sailed for 9 months and were the first all-female crew to sail in this race. The name of… Continue Reading
WHUT-TV, PBS station in Washington DC is airing our 5-part series with Silicon Valley pioneers Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson. You can watch the series in July on Wednesday nights 8.30 pm EST. Here is the schedule: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 – Bill Atkinson Part-1 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 – Bill Atkinson Part-2 Wednesday, July… Continue Reading
Tom Quinn wrote and directed Colewell, a quiet and evocative film set in a rural town in Pennsylvania. The film stars Karen Allen, Kevin J. O’Connor and others. Colewell had its world premiere at the 2019 SFFILM, which is where we caught up with Quinn. We spoke about the making of Colewell, how he got… Continue Reading
In our Women in Science and Technology TV series from Silicon Valley we speak with Linda Pouliot and Dr. Kristina Yu. Pouliot is a serial entrepreneur & founder of Dishcraft Robotics, while Yu is Director of the Living Systems Department at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Pouliot and Yu share who mentored them, how they… Continue Reading
Karen Allen is an actor, director and a textile designer. We caught up with Allen at 2019 SFFILM in San Francisco where her new film Colewell by director Tom Quinn had its world premier. Colewell is a poetic film with a touch of melancholy on how economic change is re-shaping small towns in rural America.… Continue Reading
Austin’s PBS station KLRU is broadcasting our 5-part series with Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson, who were the original members of the Macintosh team at Apple. After working at Apple they left to start their own startup. Atkinson, Hertzfeld and Marc Porat co-founded General Magic, one of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley in the… Continue Reading
Steve Paolini is an engineer turned entrepreneur and is the President of Telelumen, that he founded in 2007 in Silicon Valley. In Part-2 of our conversation we talk to him about growing up in Pennsylvania and how he dreamt of being an engineer. He knew as a 10 year old that he wanted to be… Continue Reading
Marc Porat is an entrepreneur, venture capitalists and co-founder of General Magic. He coined the phrase “information economy.” In this wide ranging interview we talk to Porat on information economy and the frontier of privacy and how he came to co-found Genera Magic in 1990 and why he thinks Silicon Valley reminds him of Florence… Continue Reading
, KCOS-TV, PBS station in El Paso, Texas is broadcasting Season 2 of our Women in Science and Technology in Silicon Valley series. On Thursday, May 16, 2019 you can watch our conversation with Hadiyah Muhjid, Founder and CEO of HBCUvc. Mujhid is a software engineer, who worked for corporations before becoming an entrepreneur. And on… Continue Reading
Karen Allen got her first acting role in National Lampon’s Animal House, an iconic 1978 comedy directed by John Landis. We got an opportunity to ask Allen how she got to be a part of Animal House that became a box-office hit. After National Lampon’s Animal House Allen went on to act in many feature… Continue Reading
Marc Porat coined the term “information economy” in the 1970s. There was an information revolution in the air in the early 1970s shares Porat and that was the subject of his PhD thesis at Stanford in 1976. Porat grew up in the 1960s during a period of revolution as he puts it. In the US… Continue Reading
Megan Smith is CEO of shift7 and 3rd US CTO and I got an opportunity to interview her a while back. In this wide-ranging conversation Smith talks about her work at Apple and General Magic, how she decided to study engineering and her work with President Obama as the 3rd US CTO and what keeps… Continue Reading
Ever wondered how to correctly pronounce actor John Turturro’s last name? I wondered about the correct way to pronounce his name since he is one of my favorite actors. I got an opportunity to ask Turturro that question in 2014. Turturro was in San Francisco for the press junket of Fading Gigolothat he wrote, directed and… Continue Reading
We bring you highlight of our conversation with Megan Smith, who was part of the team at General Magic. In the early 1990s General Magic was one of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley. Smith shares some of the hardware challenges the General Magic team faced in developing their pocket crystal or personal communicator. General… Continue Reading
We are excited to share about our new 5-Part TV series with Silicon Valley pioneers Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson. Both were pursuing their graduate studies when they decided to drop out and join Apple in the late 1970s when it was a young startup. Hertzfeld and Atkinson were members of the original Macintosh team… Continue Reading
San Francisco Bay area’s KPJK TV (previously it was KCSM TV) is airing our series on Women in Science and Technology from Silicon Valley on Sundays at 2.30 pm. On Sunday, March 10 you can catch watch our conversation with Celeste Ford who is an aeronautics engineer turned entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. This episode is… Continue Reading
Steve Paolini is President of Telelumen. We bring you a 2-part series where Paolini shares how he became interested in engineering, the role of his father in nurturing his interests, why he came to Silicon Valley to work for HP and developed an interest in LED and how he became an entrepreneur. In Part-1 Paolini… Continue Reading
PBS North Coast in Eureka, Northern California is broadcasting Season 2 of our Women in Science and Technology in Silicon Valley series. You can watch the series on Sundays at 3.30 pm PST and Tuesdays at 5.30 hmm PST. A big thank you to PBS North Coast for broadcasting Season 2 and Season 1 of… Continue Reading
What about all this initial Oscar buzz for Glenn Close for her role in #TheWife? This was a question on my mind when I got an opportunity to interview director Bjorn Runge in 2018 just before the release of the film. “I don’t dare think those thoughts,” he replied. “What happens next is out of my… Continue Reading
Artificial intelligence, data mining, learning to learn to learn or meta, meta learning is what keeps Pedro Alves busy. He is the founder & CEO of Ople, a Silicon Valley startup. How do you automate learning to learn to learn is what keeps him preoccupied . He wants to make AI easy, cheap and ubiquitous and shares… Continue Reading
In the next few weeks we will bring you conversations with engineers-turned-entrepreneur Pedro Alves and Steve Paolini. Both are Silicon Valley-based entrepreneurs, who share what propelled them to start their companies and what they are working to solve. Alves is the founder and CEO of Ople, a startup that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big… Continue Reading
We speak with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck about his Oscar nominated film Never Look Away that he wrote, directed and produced. Never Look Away is on the final list for the 2019 Oscars in the foreign film category. In 2007 Donnersmarck won an Oscar for his debut feature film The Lives of Others that was… Continue Reading
PBS station WHUT/Howard University in Washington DC is broadcasting Season 2 of our Women in Science and Technology in Silicon Valley series. You can catch the series on Wednesday nights at 11.30 pm EST on Channel 32 in Washington DC. A big thank you to WHUT for broadcasting Season 2 of our Women in Science… Continue Reading
Tony Misch is director of Lick Observatory Historical Collection projects Lick Observatory located in Silicon Valley is a historic observatory and one of the oldest observatories in western USA. In this conversation we talk to him about the early women astronomers – the “hidden figures of Lick Observatory,” and the important role of the observatory in… Continue Reading
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