It’s not often that you get to meet one of the people who helped make Silicon Valley the tech powerhouse it is today. Here you get to meet Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare. He also teaches computer science at Stanford University. Translation: he’s smart and ...

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, is a professor of radiology and bioengineering, director of the Molecular Imaging Program and head of the nuclear medicine division at Stanford University. He shares his vision of the future based on molecular imaging.

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Everywhere you look, it seems, you’ll find another story on cleantech. If you’re curious about the investment community around this fast-growing (and increasingly-hyped) industry, you’ll want to hear what Erik Straser has to say.

Harry McCracken is the editor-in-chief of PC World. He recently resigned when his publisher asked him not to publish an article critical of Apple, fearing Steve Jobs’ reputation for holding long grudges and not wanting to risk the loss of Apple’s advertising dollars. Things are tough in the publishing ...

Al Saracevic is the deputy business editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. I caught up Mr. Saracevic at a recent conference on innovation journalism at Stanford university. In this segment, he is on a panel and talks about the Silicon Valley beat and how to get original news stories. It ...

Meet Professor Pam Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and renowned scientist. Pam is super-excited about the opportunities that ever-increasing levels of private and industrial funding for energy and environmental research offer. How can universities contribute to finding sustainable energy sources and solutions to global ...

You may not be aware that coalfires, both natural and man-made, generate large amounts of carbon dioxide. In China alone, the estimated amount equals that of the U.S. transportation sector! Meet Taku Ide, a PhD student at Stanford University, who is on a quest to extinguish these fires.

China’s economy is growing fast, and China’s demand for energy is growing right along with it. To accommodate this growth in a sustainable manner, China must move away from a largely coal-based energy portfolio. If it does not, the already severe environmental impacts of large-scale coal usage will continue to ...

Forget alternative energies: in the short term the only feasible solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum dependencies is energy efficiency. There is much to be gained, especially in the U.S., where energy consumption per person has risen above that of any other country in the world. Professor Jim ...

Hear more on the concept of Business Technology and how HP helps customers focus on business outcomes.

This is an interview with San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle and his wife, the playwright Amy Freed. She has written six plays that have been produced, which in itself is astounding, but one of them has also been a Pulitzer finalist. She also teaches at Stanford University.

Global warming is happening, and one of the culprits is likely increased emission levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as a result of our energy usage. Lynn Orr is director of the Global Climate and Energy Project and one of the world’s leading experts on global ...

Alternatives can help create a sustainable energy future. The most promising long-term alternative energy sources are wind and solar: there is plenty of it, greenhouse gas emissions are low, and the required surface area is relatively small — especially when compared to biomass. In this talk, SmartEnergy’s Margot Gerritsen says ...

In Iceland and a few other countries, geothermal energy delivers a large part of the energy used for heating or cooling, through geothermal heat pumps. You may be surprised to hear that there are hundreds of thousands of buildings in the U.S. that are also hooked up to such systems. ...

Professor Maheshwari is the vice chancellor of BITS Pilani, one of the most prestigious educational instituitions in India. He has held various top-level positions at the instituition over the past 35 years. He has published four books and over 80 research papers in the ares of semiconductor electronics and ...

Do you remember the first time you heard of Google? It’s probably hard for many of us to remember the Internet before the advent of the now-giant search company, but there was a time when Google’s brand wasn’t fully developed. David Cheriton is professor of computer science at Stanford University, ...

David Cheriton is professor of computer science at Stanford University. The school has been the unofficial launching pad for plenty of young tech entrepreneurs. Cheriton talks with PodVentureZone’s John Ince about the his early impressions of Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and the meeting he set up with Andy Bechtolsheim that ...

David Cheriton is professor of computer science at Stanford University. The school has been the unofficial launching pad for plenty of young tech entrepreneurs. Cheriton talks with PodVentureZone’s John Ince about the Google Co-Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as well as Andy Bechtolsheim and Jim Clark.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — Recent headlines suggest that it’s getting harder and harder for citizens in Iran to visit Web sites like the open-source online encyclopedia Wikipedia and even the online home of The New York Times. An academic partnership between several universities is working to ...

Will an Indian social networking site succeed against Orkut?

In this episode, we have Prerna Gupta, founder and CEO of Yaari.com - a new social networking site that claims to be “created by Indian youth, for Indian youth”. (Yaari means friendship)

At a time when the social networking space is ...

“What would you want to give to your audience?” asked Charlene Li of companies who are using blogging as a marketing tool. The Forrester Research analyst spoke on a panel about corporate blogging at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit on the Stanford University campus. Li talked with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau ...

MENLO PARK, July 26, 2006 (PodTech News) –”It’s going to be advertising,” said YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said, when asked how he was going to make his company profitable, though he stressed any additional ads on YouTube will not disrupt the user experience. Hurley spoke on a panel on consumer-generated ...

Menlo Park, CA, June 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google’s co-founder and President Sergey Brin was in Washington Tuesday to push for stronger provisions on “network neutrality.” Internet companies like Google fear that without network neutrality rules, the telecommunications and cable companies will create a two-tiered network – a network ...

Next week there is a cutting edge conference at Stanford that is free for journalism and innovation professionals to attend. Registration: http://scil.stanford.edu/InJo-2006/signup.fft. Vint Cerf, PodTech, Google, CNet, Tony Perkins, Ross Mayfield, Dan Gillmor, USVP’s Paul Mateucci, and other great folks like Harry McCracken, Michael Kanellos.

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Every problem is an opportunity for a creative solution. Tina and John met up at Stanford University to talk about adding creativity to the thought process. How does one take themselves “out of the box” to achieve a creative result in business? Tina talks about ...