Past Guests
D.P. Venkatesh - founder of mPortal
D.P. Venkatesh has more than twenty five years experience in the Communications industry across Mobile, Internet, Cable and Media sectors. His roles have varied from executive management to strategic planning, product management and business development.As CEO of mPortal, Mr. Venkatesh oversees all aspects of strategy, sales, and marketing
Bob Metcalfe - Inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3COM
Bob Metcalfe, engineer, technology executive and venture capitalist, invented the Ethernet. He attended MIT and Harvard University, studying mathematics and computer science, before joining Xerox's Palo Alto Research center. It was there that he was inspired to invent the Ethernet in 1973, which allowed computers to send packets
Jim Sutton - Inventor of touch computing
Jim Sutton had a long and distinguished career at HP across a number of product groups such as calculator and PC. While many thing the touch devices such as smartphones are a recent development, in fact Jim led the team that developed basic touch technology back in 1983 leading to
Tim Berners-Lee - Inventor of the Web
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He founded and Directs the World Wide Consortium (W3C) the forum for technical development of the Web. He founded the Web Foundation whose mission is that the WWW serves Humanity, and co-founded the Open Data Institute in London. His research group
Chuck House - former HP executive and inventor of the Moon Monitor
Chuck House is co-author with Raymond Price, of THE HP PHENOMENON: INNOVATION and BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION (2009, Stanford University Press). He is Exec Director of InnovaScapes Institute, which published his memoir of HP Colorado Springs, PERMISSION DENIED, in 2013. House, Chancellor Emeritus of Cogswell Polytechnical College, was also executive director of
Geoffrey Moore - Author of 'Crossing The Chasm'
Download KI_20090825_Interview_With_Geoffrey_Moore_Part_2.mp3 Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Mohr Davidow portfolio and established high-tech enterprises, most recently including Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Box, Aruba, Cognizant, and Rackspace. Moore’s life’s
Art Fong - Hewlett-Packard Employee #9
Download KI_20090802.mp3 Here is an interesting question. If Microwave Engineer Art Fong had decided to turn down Bill Hewlett's job offer back in 1945, how would the Hewlett Packard product line of microwave signal generators, bridges, and a long line of spectrum analyzers be different today?
Interview With Art Fong
Download KI_20090802.mp3 In next in the series of interviews with creators of killer innovations, Phil interviews Art Fong. Art was part of the team that invented microwave during WWII, helped develop FM radio and then joined HP when it was still a small start-up. He went on to
David Cochran - Inventor of the scientific pocket calculator
Download KI_20090620.mp3 What started out as a pet project of David Packard quickly turn into the HP-35 which was the epitome of a revolutionary mousetrap. Hand-held four function calculators were already on the market. Few could imagine a machine with scientific calculation capability that would fit in your
