Pure Science
FiRe’s Pure Science channel focuses on research by members of the FiRe community into pure science, including physics, climatology, space and ocean exploration, evolutionary theory, ethnology, and more.
October 13, 2017
Michael Sims, Founder and CEO, Ceres Robotics; hosted by Jason Preston, Co-Founder, Dent
October 12, 2017
Trevor Rudderham, President and CEO, Haydale Technologies Inc.: Shane Fox, Co-Founder and CEO, LINK3D; and Philip Vafiadis, Executive Chairman, Innovyz and Innovyz Institute; hosted by Steve Waite, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Graphene Stakeholders Association
October 11, 2017
Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science; hosted by Mark Anderson
October 11, 2017
Andrew Connolly, Director, DIRAC Institute, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington; hosted by Mark Anderson
October 11, 2017
Bryan William Jones, Retinal Neuroscientist and Principal Investigator/Director, Marclab for Connectomics, University of Utah; hosted by Mark Anderson
October 11, 2017
I. “Pictorial Processing in Nature I”: Chris Johnson, Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), and Distinguished Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah
II. “Pictorial Processing in Nature II”: Valerio Pascucci, Endowed Chair Professor of Computing and Founding Director, CEDMAV, University of Utah
Hosted by Mark Anderson
September 29, 2016
With Jonathan Carter, Deputy Director of Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; hosted by Brett Horvath, Co-Founder and Head of Product, Scout
September 29, 2016
With James "Ben" Brown, Dept. Head, Molecular Ecosystems Biology, and Chair, Environmental Bioinformatics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Birmingham; hosted by David Morris, VP Business Development, Strategic News Service
September 28, 2016
With Benjamin Smarr, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley; hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
September 28, 2016
With Brad Holtz, CEO, Cyon Research, and Chief Nexus Officer, Coventry Computer; and Murray Cantor, CTO, Aptage, and past IBM Distinguished Engineer; hosted by Mark Anderson
September 28, 2016
With Chris Johnson, Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), and Distinguished Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah; Alexander Lex, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) and the School of Computing at the University of Utah and Bei Wang Phillips, Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), University of Utah; Hosted by Mark Anderson
October 7, 2015
A Centerpiece Conversation: "Creating a Blended Reality: 3D Transformations": With Shane Wall, CTO, Hewlett-Packard; Hosted by Ed Butler, Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
May 21, 2014
A discussion with Peter Lee, Corporate VP and Head of Microsoft Research, Microsoft; hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter, BBC
May 21, 2014
FiRe 2014: "Commercializing Space: From the Moon to Mars": Patti Grace Smith and Michael Sims; hosted by Larry Smarr
May 20, 2014
FiRe 2014: Dinner Presentation: "Outer Space Commerce: Increasing Humanity's Prosperity on a Global Scale": Chris Lewicki; hosted by Mark Anderson
May 23, 2013
"Taking Voice Digitization Beyond Words": A conversation with Peter Mahoney, CMO, Nuance Communications; Cary Bran, Senior Director, Innovation and New Ventures, Plantronics; and Kirsten Bay, President and CEO, Attensity Group; hosted by Stephen Socolof, Managing Partner, New Venture Partners
May 25, 2012
Histories of Exceptional Individuals and Scientific Breakthroughs”: With George Dyson, historian of technology, and author of the new book of the same name; hosted by Don Budinger, Chair and Founding Director, The Rodel Foundations
May 24, 2012
With David Sarna, CEO, WoodallTech; and Dan Simon, President and CEO, Heliae; hosted by Glen Hiemstra, Founder, Futurist.com
May 24, 2012
A conversation with Con Slobodchikoff, Professor Emeritus of Biology, Northern Arizona University, and CEO, Animal Communications Ltd.; hosted by Roger Payne, Founder and President, Ocean Alliance
May 22, 2012
J. Craig Venter, Chair, CEO, and Co-Chief Scientific Officer, Synthetic Genomics
May 27, 2011
With John Delaney, Professor, School of Oceanography and Paros Endowed Chair for Sensor Networks, and Director and PI for the Regional Cabled Observatory of NSF’s OOI; and Doug Stanley, CEO and Co-Founder, Ridgeline Entertainment; hosted by Michael Pfeffer, Managing Partner, Kolohala Ventures
May 26, 2011
A KCPQ-TV production: How SNS’ Orca Relief contributed to new federal protection for Killer Whales; with Pam Pearson, SVP/General Manager, KCPQ/KZJO-TV and Tribune Broadcasting Co.; hosted by Mark Anderson
November 11, 2010
The longest longitudinal study of the world's most hunted whales; with Jonathan Stern, Minke Whale Project Lead and Professor, Marine Ecosystems, San Francisco State University; hosted by Russ Daggatt, General Partner, Denny Hill Capital
May 14, 2010
With Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, and Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University; hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UCSD and Irvine
May 20, 2009
A conversation with Elon Musk, CEO, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors; hosted by Mark Anderson
May 23, 2007
A conversation with Janine Benyus, President, Biomimicry Institute; hosted by Cynthia Figge, EKOS International.
May 22, 2007
Dinner Presentation: J.Craig Venter, Founder, Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute
Managing Director, CEO and Company Secretary, Redflow
President & CEO, Science Foundation Arizona
Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Professor, Regulatory Biology Department, Salk Institute
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Aptage; and Senior Technical Fellow, Pattern Computer Inc.
President and CEO, MAR Systems Inc.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SCI Institute, University of Utah
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
Founder and CEO, Ceres Robotics
Founder, Chairman & CEO, NeuroVigil Inc.
CEO, Graphene Labs; and COO, Graphene 3D Lab
Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge; , and Visiting Scholar, USC
Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering, University of California-Davis
Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Pattern Computer Inc.
Director, Stem Cell Core Laboratory, Salk Institute
Mon, 16 May 2022 08:57:00 -0700
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Mon, 16 May 2022 08:00:00 -0700
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Mon, 16 May 2022 07:11:00 -0700
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Fri, 13 May 2022 08:39:00 -0700
New York’s top court will hear the case of Happy the elephant’s bid for personhood and release from the Bronx Zoo in New York City on May 18.