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Tomorrow's smart grid

At the Churchill Club's 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, venture capitalists discuss whether the smart grid and smart meter trends will continue to produce innovation and what the motivating factors will be.

Tags: Grid, Venture Capital, Finance, Financing Startups, Churchill Club, 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, Smart Grid, Ann Winblad, Steve Jurvetson, Joe Schoendorf, Ram Shriram, Jason Pontin

Videos 2009-05-29

Steve Jurvetson: Green nano solutions

Steve Jurvetson: Green nano solutionsAbsolutely ridiculous job of journalism.Thanks for not showing the slides that the speaker was displaying to the audience.

Tags: Steve Jurvetson

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Steve Jurvetson: Green nano solutions

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson describes the acceleration of computer and genetic technology through Moore's law, and then outlines nature-inspired methods for building nanotech. He also explains why decoding DNA from the ocean is important to green tech's future.

Tags: Steve Jurvetson, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Green

Videos 2008-09-18

Is algae the next gas alternative?

At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Bill Green of Vantage Point Venture Partners, and moderator Awais Khan of KPMG discuss current and future uses for algae. Green says that while algae can be used to produce fuel, it is currently not sustainable on...

Tags: Steve Jurvetson, AlwaysOn Summit, stanford, fuel alternatives

Videos 2008-07-28

Steve Jurvetson: AI, nanotech and the future of the human species

Steve Jurvetson is one of the featured speakers, among other luminaries, at the forthcoming Singularity Summit 2007 on advanced artificial intelligence AI. As a managing director at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he invested early in the first Web wave, with Hotmail, Interwoven and Kana, and...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Jurvetson, Nanotechnology, Singularity Summit 2007, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Churchill Club: 9th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends

The Churchill Club held its "9th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate" at the San Jose Fairmont last week. Four of the the top venture investors gave their predictions gave their predictions on the top tech trends emerging over the next few years. The event was moderated by Tony Perkins,...

Tags: Steve Jurvetson, Memory, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Marketing, Networking, Hardware, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-04-03

Top tech future trends debate

On January 12, the Churchill Club held its annual "Top Ten Tech Trends Debate." We have a podcast of the event, which was moderated by Tony Perkins, editor in chief of AlwaysOn. The panelists included: John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director,...

Tags: U.S., Opportunity, Steve Jurvetson, Partnership, Entertainment, Tech Trend, Business Structures, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2006-01-20

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Churchill Club: 11th annual top 10 tech trends

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts debate the top technology trends. This members only event included the following speakers: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson  Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures  Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel...

Tags: Founder, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Video: The week in Green tech

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson describes the acceleration of computer and genetic technology through Moore's law, and then outlines nature-inspired methods for building nanotech. He also explains why decoding DNA from the ocean is important to green tech's future. ...

Tags: Biofuel, Green Technology, Video, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Churchill Club podcast: Top tech trends

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts outline the top 10 tech trends. The panelists include: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures Josh Kopelman, Managing Partner, First Round Capital ...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?

The fate of the human species depends on AI Artificial Intelligence entities far smarter than us and who aren't prone to wipe out or enslave us. That is one of the topics to be discussed by luminaries in the AI world at the Singularity Summit 2007 held at the Palace...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligence

Barney Pell has a passion for artificial intelligence AI and natural language processing NLP. His latest foray into those related fields is Powerset, a search engine that he hopes will challenge Google. He will be speaking, along with other experts in the AI field, at the Singularity Summit 2007, held...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Barney Pell, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Steve Omohundro: Building self-aware AI systems

Steve Omohundro is president of Self-Aware Systems, which has a goal of developing an AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves. He will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on September 8-9. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Omohundro, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Coming up: Office 2.0, Singularity, Dreamforce, TechCrunch 40, Demo

This week we get back into the tech conference season after the August hiatus, starting with the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Thursday and Friday. I will be moderating a panel on enterprise collaboration, which includes Scott Dietzen, president and CTO, Zimbra; Etay Gafni, director of the Technology...

Tags: TechCrunch, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Agenda, Conference, Office 2.0, Director, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-04

News to know: Vista hot fix; GPL drama; MSN Messenger flaw; Google

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases two Vista hotfix packs via Windows Update Free Software Foundation: No GPLv3 exemptions for Microsoft Ed Burnette: GPLv3 Myth #4: GPLv3 undercuts the Microsoft/Novell deal Ryan Naraine: MSN Messenger vulnerable to 'highly...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., EarthLink Inc., GPL, Larry Dignan, MSN, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, Flaw

Blog posts 2007-08-29

Launching...Lawgarithms

Denise Howell here, taking the wysiwyg editor out for a spin and inaugurating my new blog here at ZDNet. This, I've got to tell you, is a pretty sweet gig. They're letting me muse about interesting, important, and frequently cutting edge technology-related legal issues — in quite extraordinary...

Tags: Lawgarithms

Blog posts 2006-08-24

Wired crowdsourcing: the birth (planned?) of a meme

The projected buzz around Wired magazine editor Jeff Howe's June piece "The Rise of Crowdsourcing" is steadily manifesting. Since it was published online this week, almost a week after the article first appeared, in print, the Wired article has:been added to Wikipediabeen seen on techmeme.comreceived 573 diggs at digg.combeen tagged...

Tags: Wired Inc., Jeff Howe, crowdsourcing

Blog posts 2006-05-29

FCC's Michael Powell at AO2004

From Steve GillmorAt the AO2004 conference, Marc Canter, no shrinking violet he, asked the most telling question of FCC Chairman Michael Powell. It came at the tail end of a vigorous fireside chat between Powell, Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig, and Steve Jurvetson of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson VC firm. Powell...

Tags: Michael Powell

Blog posts 2004-07-14