In Challenge X, the U.S. Department of Energy has partnered with GM for a three-year competition, giving engineering schools an opportunity to participate in hands-on research and development with leading-edge automotive propulsion, fuels, materials, and emissions-control technologies. Seventeen teams were challenged to re-engineer a GM Equinox to ...

GM’s Nick Zielinski, Chief Engineer of the Volt and Gary Smyth, GM’s Director of Powertrain Systems, sat down to dinner with a group of bloggers including Sam Abuelsamid of AutoblogGreen, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, Lyle Dennis of GM-Volt.com, Philip Proefrock of Ecogeek and ...

You’ve probably used BEA’s technology and not even known it. For instance, if you check your bank accounts online, most likely you’ve used a BEA system. I wanted to learn more about what BEA is doing, so I headed to Atlanta for the BEA Participate conference. There I met ...

At the Challenge X event held at the GM World Headquarters in Detroit, MI, Micky Bly, engineering director for GM’s hybrid vehicle integration contols, reached out for a one-on-one with a group of bloggers including Sam Abuelsamid from AutoblogGreen, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, ...

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a black box to many people. Eric Wolfram is an SEO consultant in New York City, successfully helping many businesses receive increased and relevant traffic from Google. Eric and I discuss why SEO is important, and he shares some tips and tricks to ...

Why is the CEO of blog search engine Technorati stepping aside? Is the San Francisco company really not for sale? And what are its plans for growing into a new media powerhouse? In this interview with the Mercury News, company CEO Dave Sifry answers those and other questions. Sifry ...

Three high school students, Dayan Li of Greenbelt, Md.; Dmitry Vaintrob of Eugene, Ore.; and Philip Streich of Platteville, Wisc.; were the winners of the Intel Foundation Young Scientists Awards at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Li studied tumors and a way to monitor ...

At the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one can’t help but notice some very practical ideas that could land some enterprising 17 year-old a nice business deal. High school senior Ruby Kanda says she’s got one. PodTech’s Jason Lopez has the history of a ...

Do remember what you were doing at 17? For high school seniors JinJu Yi and Vijay Jain they’ll look back at the integrated smart chip they developed for the early diagnosis of cancer. In this podcast they spoke with PodTech’s Jason Lopez at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair ...

Can science do anything? Patrick Dalton used it to settle a difference with his mother. Then he created a hypothesis and a methodology. He lost. But the point is, he asked questions and tested his assumptions. Dalton was one of more than 1,000 high schoolers from more than 45 countries ...

The high school kids who participate in Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair 2007 are certainly focused on their entry projects. Many will use their research in college, which could become the basis of future careers. For Atlanta, Georgia high school student Kari Jackson, helping to control insect pests is ...

One can’t have a science fair these days without Google — at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Pictured is the brainchild of South Korean high school student Ukseong Moon, 16, who has come up with a way to use keywords to improve search ...

Humans understanding (or misunderstanding) other humans couldn’t be a bigger topic as the world gets smaller and the global population grows. One high school student looked at the abilities of elementary school children, from a mostly white community, to understand the facial expressions of other children of color. Brandy Buchanan ...

From the floor of the Albuquerque Convention Center, Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair provided a day full of compelling ideas. Listen to this podcast of three Malaysian high school students who have begun to study the possibility of using bananas to make ethanol for the Southeast Asian market. Pictured ...

Dr. Larry Dalton, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the George B. Kauffman Professor of Chemistry & Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and Nobel Prize nominee, talks about his work with polymers, photonics and electro-optics.

Electro-optics and photonics play an enormous role in our lives. However, people know ...

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 ...

Online press release distribution — it’s the new world of information dissemination. Getting search engine optimization in a press release is valuable to marketers. Joe Beaulaurier, of PRWeb, was at AdTech to talk about how PRWeb connects podcasts to press releases, which means greater pickup of the information by ...

Bruce Clay, a leading search engine optimization expert, speaks with Marketing Voices about how important it is for a business to be on the first page of Google. There are secrets to getting on that first page. It is all about a site being written properly and ...

MeeVee is a new video search portal where you can find your favorite TV shows on the Web. Search for “Lost,” for instance, and MeeVee will take you right there. Here we meet and talk with Michael Ranerei, CEO, Shampa Banerjee, VP of engineering and products, and Neil Kjeldsen, ...

In this episode, Jason Calacanis sits down with Jason Chiang, who shares his professional insights into the Asian internet markets, and uncovers several interesting details related to blogging in Asia, and Asian search engines.

Jason Chiang is a prominent blogger in Taiwan and the CEO and founder of www.insightxplorer.com - ...

Tony Pearce, president and co-founder of MyComfort, talks with Kip Meacham about they company’s path from startup to leader in the market for innovation-driven cushioning and mattress technology. As an inventor, engineer, researcher and entrepreneur, Pearce took his knowledge and experience from the aerospace industry and focused on the ...

While at SXSW last week, we sat down with Jason Fields of Snap.com, an alternative search engine service. Snap.com, an Idealab company, combines a web site preview service with a search service that easily embeds in blogs. Jason explains the service and talks a bit about the controversy that ...

Curves of brushed aluminum grace the BICOM HMS7, a combination PC and media server designed for the digital home. Inside, there’s a high-performance, energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but outside the user-friendly front panel features touch-screen LED controls for music, movie, and program functions. Future expandability options include PCI, ...

Utility computing is not a new concept, but the technologies that make it viable are finally maturing. Properly deployed, utility computing can increase server utilization rates, reduce the requirement to build overcapacity and lower operating costs. This podcast identifies key success factors for organizations hoping to capture the benefits of ...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Vice President of Engineering Douglas Merrill talk about migrating to Google Apps.

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