Yesterday's Tomorrow

Yesterday's Tomorrow

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Yesterday's Tomorrow episodes

  • Geek of the Week - Phil Karn
    01/26/1994 - Phil Karn
    Carl Malamud interviews Phil Karn, the father of the KA9Q publicly
    available implementation of TCP/IP for DOS, and a well known Internet
    researcher in areas ranging from security to his current work on
    wireless data communications.
    31 min
  • Tech Nation - The Secret Life of Machines/INTEROP
    10/16/1993 - The Secret Life of Machines/INTEROP
    Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Tim Hunkin, Engineer, Cartoonist, and
    Filmmaker. His latest television series, "The Secret Life of
    Machines," will be aired in the Fall on the Discovery Channel.
    Following a college hobby of cartooning, Tim's humorous scientific
    cartoon strip, "The Rudiments of Wisdom," was published for 14 years
    in Britain. He discusses his experience with the television series
    and his invention of various coin-operated machines, including "The
    Frisker" currently installed at Coven Garden.
    Moira also speaks with Dan Lynch, Chairman and Founder of Interop
    Company. Dan talks about the conference that has grown in a few short
    years from 200 people to 65,000. He answers the question of just what
    could bring 65,000 people to one place for an entire week and Interop
    Company's plans for international conferences next year. He traces his
    early experience on ARPANET through the present Internet, and explains
    how there really is no one in charge. This network of networks has no
    hierarchy and, now that it exists, cannot be centrally or easily shut
    down.
    1 hr
  • Geek of the Week - Mike O'Dell
    01/19/1994 - Mike O'Dell
    Carl Malamud interviews Mike O'Dell, Vice President for Research at
    UUNET Technologies. O'Dell has a long record of involvement in data
    communications, ranging from his service as a telco lab employee, an
    engineer on several key projects, a member of the Usenix board. Now
    helping define new services for one of the largest IP service
    providers.
    31 min
  • Tech Nation - Entrepreneurs & Inventors
    10/02/1993 - Entrepreneurs & Inventors
    Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with talks to Robert Gilbreath, CEO of the
    London-headquartered international consulting firm of Proudfoot Change
    Management. They discuss how organizations must be prepared for
    change, as well as the "parables" in Gilbreath's new book, "Escape
    from Management Hell."
    Moira also speaks with James Fergason, inventor of the LCD. He
    discusses the problems of turning inventions into patents and patents
    into profits. Fergason has just been awarded his 90th patent.
    1 hr 1 min
  • Geek Of The Week - Noel Chiappa
    12/22/1993 - Noel Chiappa
    Carl Malamud interviews Noel Chiappa, architect of the Proteon router
    and a researcher with a long history of involvement in routing
    protocols. Chiappa explains why we don't need a new Internet Protocol,
    how the Internet will replace the telephone system, and how addresses
    can become complicated.
    31 min
  • Tech Nation - Technology and Medical Ethics
    08/06/1993 - Technology and Medical Ethics
    The question of medical ethics when using life-sustaining technologies
    is examined. Steve Heilig is Director of Public Health and Education
    at the San Francisco Medical Society. Also the Editor of the Cambridge
    Quarterly for Healthcare Ethics, he talks about the ethical questions
    involved in discontinuing the use of life-sustaining technologies. In
    addition, the question of terminal patients choosing to end their own
    lives is discussed.
    Moira also speaks with Pierre Ludington, San Francisco Health
    Commissioner and former Executive Director of the American Association
    of Physicians for Human Rights. He talks about the problems of
    choosing among technologies in the interest of public health and the
    special needs of the AIDS community in San Francisco.
    1 hr
  • Geek of the Week - Ned Freed
    12/15/1993 - Ned Freed
    Carl Malamud interviews Ned Freed, developer of Internet messaging
    software on VAX/VMS platforms. Freed talks about implementing Internet
    protocols on non-Unix platforms and about his work on multimedia
    messaging systems.
    31 min
  • Tech Nation - Fusion Confusion
    08/03/1993 - Fusion Confusion
    The "confusion about fusion" is examined. Dr. Moira Gunn asks Dr.
    Norman Rostoker, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of
    California, Irvine, to describe the various approaches which are being
    researched to achieve nuclear fusion, as well as the government
    funding situation. Dr. Rostoker represents a national coalition of
    Alternate Fusion Researchers and discusses the current situation
    vis-a-vis government funding for research.
    Moira also speaks with one of these researchers, Dr. Bodan Maglich,
    President of Advanced Research Corporation, on his aneutronic fusion
    technology which uses Helium-3 as fuel in a collider environment and
    the success which he has had.
    Finally, Moira discusses the implications of this technology from an
    environmental standpoint with Harry Hamlin. With a long-standing
    record on environmental issues, the actor Hamlin discusses the wide-
    ranging support for this technology, the global implications of using
    this technology, and how it could change our lives.
    1 hr
  • Geek of the Week - Bernhard Stockman
    12/08/1993 - Bernhard Stockman
    Carl Malamud interviews Bernhard Stockman, one of the founders and the
    technical manager of the European Backbone (EBONE). EBONE has proved
    to be the first effective transit backbone for Europe and has been a
    leader in the deployment of CIDR, BGP-4, and other key technologies.
    31 min
  • Tech Nation - Gender, Science and Society
    07/23/1993 - Gender, Science and Society
    Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Hilary Rose. Dr. Rose, a Bernard Osher
    Fellow at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, specializes in the study
    of gender, science, and society. She discusses the Feminist's
    Criticism of Science, particularly the exclusion of human
    considerations in scientific "knowledge." She is Director of the West
    Yorkshire Centre for Research on Women at the University of Bradford
    in Bradford, England. Her most recent book is "Love, Power, &
    Knowledge."
    In the second half, Moira speaks with Beverly Reiser. Ms. Reiser is an
    artist working with interactive electronic environments, and she is
    President of YLEM (eye-lum), an international society of Artists Using
    Science & Technology. She describes new artists and their art in the
    expanding world of technology.
    1 hr 1 min

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