That he sees as destructive. So i really wanted to know, you know, where did this come from, and were a lot of the views that hes been expressing recently views that hes had all along . You know, sort of what drove him and what was his vision of the kind of social impact that he was going to have . Plus, nobody had done it. I mean, he was rare in a figure of his significance and prominence in that nobody had written a serious indepth biography. So i decided i wanted to do it. And then i discovered why nobody had written [laughter] an indepth biography. I had, i had met him a few times, i didnt know him well, but sort of, to sort of greet him when he appeared on the Television Networks that i work for. But i did know alvin [inaudible] who is a harvard psychiatrist who was an adviser on the cosby show and is a good friend of bill and camille cosbys. So i called him, and i made my pitch for why i thought bill cosby would be great subject for a book. And he agreed with me, and he offered t
Love with eniac. He knew what it could do. Then it was this very wonderful thing where he taught clarie how to program it. There was a debate of who so what first, but somebody saw that they were designing the institute machine and writing code for it. But the machine was not ready. Someone said, we can rewire eniac and run programs on the eniac. They spent six weeks rewiring it and getting it to run. That was the origin of modern software. And that was such a fruitful time. So it was a mixture of their marriage, the coding. And she had no training whatsoever . She did have training. During the war, when johnny went off to england to do what, we do not know . She was left behind in princeton. Women could apply and get a wartime job. Hers was at the center for Population Research at princeton university. Her job was modeling populations of people. What would happen if you created a new state in the middle east or something . They model growth of population. That is what you needed to so
The union between the two democracies, and we look forward to the next chapter in his extraordinary life. May it be as remarkable as those that preceded it. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the majority leader of the United States senate of the honorable harry reid. [applause] today we are gathered to honor a man whos dedicated his entire life to making the world a better place. I see in the audience senator dick durbin. He was with a group of senators that i left the middle east. I told senator durbin and others at the time that they were going to have an opportunity to meet demand that i had such a deep respect and admiration for. In fact no one has been more inspirational to me than demand that we honor today. We still talk about that meeting that we had with shimon peres and the view that he had of the world. But is it any wonder i think so highly of this man seven decades of Public Service should be an inspiration to us all and it is. We have heard his tenure of service in 50 year
Over control from his russian colleague. Hello. Ed search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet is continuing into its third day. Well, this is a picture of the plane on an earlier flight. 239 people were on board the plane en route from beijing when it simply vanished from radar saturday morning. In the latest developments, an earlier reported sighting of a lifetime raft off the vietnamese coast has been proven unfounded. The malaysian government is sharing intelligence with the americans and chinese after it found two stolen passports were used to board the flight by two passengers. Well, the latest news conference, the transport minister explained why they are calling on International Help to try to identify the men. I have been linking up with the intelligence agency. The u. S. Intelligence yesterday. The Background Information and the visuals have have been recorded. And those are being eye jested by the relative agency. So until we get more information, i will stop because i do not
And thanks to the town hall for putting on this amazing series. Its so terrific that there is Science Education going on especially in a time when funding is being cut to sciences at the National Level so we need to keep pushing for as much Science Education as possible. So i just finished writing an optimistic look about the apocalypse and it didnt start out that way at all. I really did not realize that this book was going to have a happy ending and it actually started because i have been really fascinated my whole life with stories about destruction especially massive Global Destruction and a apocalypse is and everything from kind of the underground cannibal apocalypse to zombie stories and godzilla stories. Godzilla is one of my spirit animals. I wanted to a couple of years ago when i was thinking about this i thought while, how could i write a kind of nonfiction version of a godzilla movie and what would that look like . We delved into the scientific literature and what history ha