During the awards dinner, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett joked, after seeing the quality of work from the high school finalists in the the Intel Science Talent Search 2008, that he felt like burning his Ph.D. dissertation. But the depth of research practiced by the finalists is astonishing. The winner ...

Broadband connectivity is rapidly becoming a bottleneck issue for economic development around the world. As nations move into knowledge-based economies, an emphasis on information and communication technologies, or ICTs, is critical to addressing poverty and development concerns ranging from health and education to economic and industrial growth. Knowledge is the ...

The Intel Science Talent Search culminates in Washington, D.C. this weekend. The high school science projects cover areas like engineering, math, physics, medicine and health, environmental science, zoology, and others. The research these students have engaged in is astonishing. Many projects will result in innovations, inventions, new treatments, ...

Some of the future leaders in science and research in the U.S. will be recognized next week at the Intel Science Talent Search, where the search for the best high school scientists and their projects will convene in Washington, D.C. In this podcast PodTech’s Jason Lopez speaks with two ...

Bryant Terry, co-author of the book GRUB: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, and Jason Harvey, founder of Oakland Food Connection, teamed up recently to have a totally organic soul food brunch. Hanging out with food justice foodies as of late, we’ve been hearing a similar idea ...

Intel CEO Paul Otellini presents the keynote speech at the 2007 Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame Award dinner.

Otellini presents on the evolution of the transistor, and how the transistor and Moore’s law has become the basis of all tech innovation. He speaks ...

On a recent announcement of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Platform adoption for Higher Education solution, Microsoft US Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist Sanjay Jain sat down with Jason Roberts CTO of Campus Management Corp. to discuss his insights on build/buy/partner decision making process, orchestration of internal and external resources and ...

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager, Ray Wilson, as he explores offshoring advanced analytics and how it supports businesses today.

With the recent credit crisis that has made its way across our nation, more and more companies are demanding an advanced analytics capability in their organization. Advanced analytics requires highly skilled individuals ...

At this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials at The Tech, NASA’s MathTrax team was one of five carefully selected 2007 Microsoft Education Award Laureates. The team, including Robert Shelton, Terry Hodgson and Stephanie Smith, designed tecnology to teach abstract mathematical concepts to blind and ...

At this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education was among the Microsoft Education Award Laureates. The Institute founded the OER Commons with the goal of sifting through mountains of free information available online, using technology to ...

Brazillian educational broadcasting organization Canal Futura was one of the Microsoft Education Awards Laureates at this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, Inc. Canal Futura uses technology to augment Brazil’s education system, which faces challenges like poverty as well as many different cultures and languages spread ...

This year’s recipient of the Microsoft Education Award at The Tech Awards went to TakingITGlobal, an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. With hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month, TakingITGlobal technology ...

In many countries in the developing world, cooking is a role assigned to women who tend open fires, sometimes inside their homes. In Guatemala, the respiratory illnesses, eye infections and severe burns that come from this reality seemed eminently avoidable to Donald O’Neal. With the intent of finding a ...

Nigeria’s education system is one of the targets of the UN’s Millenium Development Goals. Some of those goals are to reduce infant mortality, combat AIDS, malaria & other diseases, and of course improve education worldwide. The millennium goal for education is to ensure, by 2015, that all boys and girls ...

ClearTXT is an interesting service for universities and schools that keeps their students up to date. Changes to class? Teacher late? Emergency on campus? All sorts of stuff can be pushed out. Doug Kaufman, CEO of ClearTXT, talks to me about the changes in educational communications tools and demonstrates ...

On this Episode Lo-Fi Saint Louis gets green with a visit to the Earthways Festival. The Earthways Festival is a showcase of green technology and practice held once a year at the Earthways Center in St. Louis. The Earthways Center was etablished by the Missouri Botanical Garden to promote ...

In a country marked by influences — Berber, Arab, Jewish, French, Spanish — Morocco faces the challenge of absorbing one more: information technology. Countries like India, China, Brazil and Nigeria have seen the astonishing impact that simple PCs can have on an economy - but the key to unlocking the ...

Broadband, connectivity, Wi-Fi, accessibility and education efforts are all priorities for the ongoing efforts in developing nations and regions around the globe. Intel, along with the United Nations and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), among others, is participating this month in the Connect Africa Summit, which aims to bring together human, ...

Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris ...

A Word of Warning: This is a graphic video. If you do not eat meat and think killing animals to do so is bad, you should not watch this video.

We live at The San Mateo Eco-Village, where we know our neighbors, garden together and learn how to live more ...

In part two of the Dreamforce07 keynote, Robert Thurman and George Lucas open their conversation up to personal insights and philosophies around education, survival and knowledge.

As part of an ecosystem, what roles will innovation and technology take on? As populations grow and diversity increases globally, will the ...

George Lucas brought news of Edutopia.org and the George Lucas Educational Foundation to Dreamforce07, where he spoke with Robert Thurman about his background and educational experience before “Star Wars.”

What is missing in the education system that has created the need for advertising and marketing on order to ...

Teaching in kindergarten through 12th grades continues to incorporate more technology. One Utah-based company, Timpanogos Technologies, has extended the life of existing district-wide systems while providing teachers and students with software that can create personalized study for individual students. Not only does this help the student learn, but it ...

A short talk on computer science enrollment trends with Mehran Sahami, associate chairman of undergraduate education at Stanford University.