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

Mehran Sahami is the associate chairman of undergraduate education. What does that mean? He runs probably the most important computer science undergraduate department in the world. This is the department that gave birth to Google, after all (and a bunch of other companies). This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for ...

Professor Bala Balachandran is considered one of the top 10 management gurus of Indian origin in the United States. He represents the first wave of Indian scholars who moved to top U.S.-based business schools and have since contributed to the growing recognition of India as a resource for ideas and ...

Dr. Elliot Soloway has taught some interesting people in his classroom at the University of Michigan. How about Larry Page, co-founder of Google? Among others. He’s been named “Teacher of the Year,” but that’s not why I talked with him. What we talked about is the state of education and ...

Last week, we talked with Nick DeMonner, Lisa Hansen and Mike Minardi about the cookbook they’ve written that is aimed at start-ups. This week, we learn about their San Jose start-up, called BzzyBee. It’s an online collaborative writing tool for classrooms that lets teachers see how much students have ...

For the first time, organizations will be able to measure how well their members work together, using a new Collaboration Calculator. The new Web-based tool, developed by industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan for Verizon Business, is designed to help organizations enhance performance through improved collaboration. PodTech’s Rio Pesino ...

While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor talks with IBM’s Sandy Carter about IBM’s SOA education efforts. They talk about using Second Life, the Business Process Simulator game, and the IBM SOA Business Catalog.

I caught up with Rajat Gupta at the Pan IIT 2007 conference in Silicon Valley last week. Mr. Gupta is deeply passionate about health and education and those were the twin topics of this conversation.

In this interview, he talks about the connection between healthcare and the ...

A while ago, Monster India was the first job site to launch a Video Resume service. In this episode, you’ll hear an interview with Vikas Agarwal, vice president of product & technology at Monster India, the key guy behind the new video service.

Vikas manages the team that launched the ...

SJ Klein is director of content at the One Laptop Per Child project. The vision of the project is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. And one such way is through a very inexpensive yet rugged laptop. OLPC is the ...

James Au worked at the embedded reporter in Second Life, the virtual world where users build everything you interact with. I sit down with James for a beer on a Saturday afternoon recently and here’s our conversation. This is the third part where we talk about avatar controls, poseballs, ...

Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair has been described as a junior Nobel Prize competition, as more than a thousand high school kids from around the world come together to show their work and make connections. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett, who is attending the fair, says the global science community ...

Sun Microsystems, KGO radio, and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. were a formidable foe to eco-apathy at an environmental education event, Eco-Live, at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center Saturday. Kennedy drew a rapt crowd for his keynote address, which played out the theme that good environmental policy ...

In a constant effort to manage and reduce IT spending, CIOs and CTOs are also charged with constantly having to demonstrate the value of IT to the business. Join us to hear Thierry Turc, managing director and technologist for BearingPoint, as he takes us through the education of users ...

There are two sides to every coin. So, there is the India Story that celebrates the new and emerging India with an annual GDP of almost 10 percent that has strong IT and technology sector, and has millions of dollars coming through FDI and VC and PE investments etc. Then ...

Brad Feld and David Cohen go into detail about their summer project, TechStars, which is bringing 10 startup companies to Boulder, Colo., for an intensive 3-month period of education and mentorship from over 30 of the best entrepreneurial minds in Colorado. Each company gets up to $15,000.00 in seed ...

Kevin Schofield invited me up to see Microsoft Research’s TechFest. We get to see a TON of cool stuff (some of the coolest research ever). Kevin is the guy responsible for moving technology from Research into the product teams, so he seems to know everyone working on Research and ...

Email and collaboration services were a frustration for Northwestern University’s student government. The assembly brought the problem to the administration a year ago, specifically recommending Google Apps as a potential solution. The school, now partnering with Google to address the students’ needs, will offer e-mail, calendar and Google Talk, with mailboxes fifty times larger than their previous ones.

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Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.

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The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of Intel, has been appointed to chair the UN initiative called the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. GAID meets with Silicon Valley leaders for the first time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for a series of panels and discussions about the ways IT solutions can help the U.N.’s efforts. PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Sarbuland Khan, executive coordinator for GAID.

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When Frank Russell founded GeoLearning ten years ago, the landscape for delivering corporate training materials was quite different from what it is today. As the network became more and more vital for business, and as software-as-a-service began to mature, Frank saw GeoLearning’s business grow and change in dramatic ways. In this podcast Frank relates his experience as CEO of GeoLearning, and talks about how SaaS plays a vital role in their success.

Eighty-eight colleges and universities. Two-and-a-half million downstream users. Paul Schopis is associate director of OARnet, based at The Ohio State University, and as such he oversees an expansive network for users with a wide range of needs. In this podcast Paul discusses the challenges he faces in building and maintaining such a network, shares some knowledge learned in his ten years at OARnet, and explains the fish problem.

This Juniper Networks podcast is part of the Juniper Networks Master of IT program.

Learn about solutions and strategies to effectively manage your paper management challenges. You will discover how to apply transactional content management to your manual, paper-based business processes, resulting in increased responsiveness, reduced cycle times, lower costs and better compliance with records and retention management.

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