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Editor in Chief and Publisher
I'm the editor in chief and the publisher of MIT Technology Review. That means I direct the editorial, platform development, and general business strategy of the company's digital and print publications, as well as our events.
Before joining MIT Technology Review in 2004, I was the editor in chief of a now-vanished biotechnology magazine I founded. Between 1996 and 2002, I was the editor of Red Herring magazine, which the Wall Street Journal called the "bible of the dot.com boom." I grew up on a farm in Northern California, where my mother raised game birds for the restaurants of San Francisco, but I was educated in England, at Harrow School and Oxford University. Consequently, my accent wanders alarmingly.
iRobot shows off its latest home robot: the Skooba. It's a little bigger than a Roomba, and it washes and polishes wooden floors. The D3 audience watches the Skooba eject clean water on a dirty wooden floor, scrub the floor,...
Dan Gillmor, formerly of the San Jose Mercury News, now an uber-blogger, asks Scott McNealy, "It sounds like you're just retreading the network computer. You say that CIOs won't pay $40 for an alligator shirt any more. Weren't you an...
Kara: "Do you have any final words about Carly Fiorina?" Scott: "Oh, just this. I tried to tell her that Microsoft was every one's nightmare, and that we should partner. But she didn't want to partner." Now, Carly is gone,...
Kara Swisher is chatting to Scott McNealy, the Chief Executive of Sun Microsystems. Scott seems entirely unchanged from how he looked when I first met him ten years ago: he is stilll the smartest guy in the Frat House. He...
UPDATE: 5.05 PM. The questions got harder--and as if he were the product of secretive experiment in genetic engineering, Mitch Kapor pulled into a convincing lead. The other geeks--even billg--fell uncomfortably silent as Mitch entered into an eerie trance. "What...
Mel Karmazin, the Chief Executive of Sirius Satellite Radio, is talking to Kara Swisher. He is a traditional New York media executive--indeed, a former prince of CBS and Viacom--whose face is sunburnt and mottled from the golf links. Karmazin has...
Audience is nonplussed. Walt asks, "It's just another games machine. What's the big deal?" Billg says, "Well, it's important to be the best games machine." You can hear the audience think, "But you're not. You're just not."...
Billg is demoing the new Windows search functions. Even his detractors have to admit, the man drives a very nice demo. He's not as infectiously enthusiastic as Jobs, but he takes you through all the features of a product very...
Billg says he'll "play nice" with the large telephone carriers in order to displace Apple from the market for downloadable music players. Walt counters, "Most people don't think of Microsoft and 'nice' in the same breath." Billg gets quite angry...
It may seem, billg is now saying, that Linux is doing very well, but really it's "just a significant competitor on the server." I would have thought that this constitutes a considerable failure for Microsoft. Walt lets it go, but...
