I interviewed 50+ authors, edited the interviews down to 5-8 minutes and published them online as mp3 files on my BOOKPOD website (now sunset).
T. Coraghessan Boyle. Wild Child LISTEN
Jonathan Brent. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe LISTEN
Randi Davenport. The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes LISTEN
Chris Welles Feder. In My Father’s Shadow LISTEN
David Freeland. Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure LISTEN
Alan Furst. The Spies of Warsaw LISTEN
Susan Jane Gilman. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven LISTEN
Philip Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families LISTEN
David Grann. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes LISTEN
William Grimes. Appetite City LISTEN
Adam Hochschild. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa LISTEN
Tom Hudgens. The Commonsense Kitchen: 500 Recipes + Lessons for a Hand-Crafted Life LISTEN
Twesegye Jackson Kaguri. The Price of Stones LISTEN
David I. Kertzer. Amalia’s Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice LISTEN
Suzanne Jill Levine. On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges LISTEN
Phillip Lopate. Family is a Big Deal to Me LISTEN
Julie Salamon. The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco LISTEN
Alexander Stille. Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism LISTEN
Terry Teachout. City Limits LISTEN
Peter Wortsman. Travel is Instant Fiction LISTEN
- INSIDE IBM RESEARCH
Interviews with notable IBM computer scientists. I am the host, interviewer and mp3 editor of this ongoing series.
Guillermo Cecchi. Using an Algorithm to Predict Schizophrenia LISTEN
Saska Mojsilovic. Will Crowdsourcing Stem the Ebola Outbreak? LISTEN
Kush Varshney. Volunteers and Algorithms Deliver Funds LISTEN
Fadi Gebara. Keeping Data in the Neighborhood LISTEN
Ron Fagin. A Career in Uniting Theory and Practice LISTEN
Sigi Karg. Using Nanotech and the Human Body to Power Gadgets LISTEN
More episodes on Inside IBM Research [Soundcloud]
- CELEBRATE SOFTWARE RESEARCH AT WATSON
Sam Adams. The Future is Multicore LISTEN
Grady Booch. There is Joy in Software LISTEN
Joel Branch. How Can We Solve Transaction Problems? LISTEN
Dan Coffman. Who In the World Are You? LISTEN
Jason Ellis. Playing Games Can Further Your Career LISTEN
Jonathan Feinberg. Can I Have a Wordle With you? LISTEN
Joan DiMicco & Werner Geyer. Beehive: Bringing Social Networking Into the Enterprise LISTEN
- COMPUTER SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT
Vijay Saraswat. X10: Creating the Next High Computing Programming Language LISTEN
Clay Williams. How Do Enterprises Govern Their Software Development Activities? LISTEN
- OPEN COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
Peter Gregor. Can We Make Software For Older Workers? LISTEN
- PEOPLE IN TRANSITION
IBM employee. I’m Getting Healthier. You Can Too. LISTEN
IBM employee. That’s It. I’m Losing Weight LISTEN
Michael King. The Future of Education LISTEN
- PODIUM
Wendy Hall. Is the Web Here to Stay? LISTEN
Phillip Oliver. Blitz Games: Everybody Has to Start Somewhere LISTEN
- SELLING INNOVATION
Paul Grundy, M.D. The Future of Healthcare LISTEN
- TECHWISE CONVERSATIONS [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]
Conversations with notable electrical engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, economists, attorneys, entrepreneurs and others about the role of technology in society. As audio podcast producer, I identified interview subjects and did the “pre-interview” with them. Among the hundreds of episodes I produced:
Erin Westgate. Electric Shocks Preferred to Thinking (Especially by Men)
Eric Brynjolfsson. The Second Machine Age: Avoiding the Dark Side of the Digital Revolution
John Bergmayer. Is the End of Net Neutrality Near?
Frank Fischer. NeuroPace: Controlling Epilepsy With a Brain Implant
Edgar Lobaton. Cyborg Cockroaches to the Rescue
Ajay Bhatt. Intel’s Rock-Star Inventor
Jaron Lanier. We’re Being Enslaved by Free Information
Jim Osborn. Your Dad’s Next Nurse Might Be a Robot
James Wayman. Will Face Recognition Ever Capture Criminals?
Chris Wiggins. Is Data Science Your Next Career?
Anthony Goldbloom. Data Science Is Now a Job Market Based Entirely on Merit
Adam Candeub. Marriage By Skype
Will [Wenmiao] Shu. A 3-D Printer for Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Nickolas “Dan” Macchiarella. Going Back to School for Drone Pilot Training
John Sullivan. Telecommuting and Yahoo’s Desperate Need for Innovation
Mike Zimmerman. With Better Software, Office Buildings Can Cut Energy Use by 30 Percent
Philippe Dubost. The Most Popular Resume in the World
Trevor Pinch. Can You Trust an Amazon Review?
Maureen Sullivan. Do Libraries Have a Future?
The Techwise Conversations series has been sunset, but IEEE still hosts the episodes on its website.
