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
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
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
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
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
We spoke with filmmakers Darren Foster and Christina Constantini about the making of their lover letter of a film called Science Fair. The film won an audience award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. “Olympics of Science Fair,” is how one of the students describes this annual science festival that changes the lives of high school… Continue Reading
Dr. Leila Takayama is a cognitive scientist with a deep interest in human-robotics interaction. She is a teacher at University of California, Santa Cruz. This is a highlight of an upcoming interview with Dr. Takayama where she shares how she got interested in math and science and how she developed an interest in cognitive science… Continue Reading
