As we settle in i often pick a word for the day. A kind of how i govern myself often times and my frame of mind. But today im going to take an image of the day if you look at your screen, one of our commissioners shared with me this image and i think it sets the tone and stage and underscores the importance of why we are here. This is a chinese book for kindergartners and even if you dont speak chinese, circled r. Two letters, ai. Kindergarten textbook. The senator talked about us getting ready from grade school to graduate school. Now we are talking about kindergarten or even pre k. If we are going to keep ahead and stay number one when it comes to ai so i just want to start with this image because again it really for me underscores the urgency of why this commission was formed and why its so important as we are here today. We have a broa had a broad mandh concrete steps the government should take to build and maintain a Machine Learning work force to address the National Security def
That was off the record. [laughter] i think we will get started. Thest want to thank American Political Science Association and sees in for foriding and cspan providing a broader environment for what is clearly a very important and relevant topic in 2019. That being this roundtable on the tropic of the Trump White House and the White House Press corps. Cohen. Is dave i am a professor of Political Science an actual professor of Political Science at the university of akron. Im an assistant director of applied politics. Im also a board member of the been press club and have over a decade. And im a member of the white house transition project, which for those who dont know, it is a nonpartisan effort to provide by presidency scholars to provide information on president ial transitions and white house operations to those who are transitioning into the white house. Its a very Important Organization that happened to be one of the founders of that organization is martha kumar, who i am happy t
American Political Science association and sees in for foriding and cspan providing a broader environment for what is clearly a very important and relevant topic in 2019. That being this roundtable on the tropic of the Trump White House and the White House Press corps. Cohen. Is dave i am a professor of Political Science an actual professor of Political Science at the university of akron. Im an assistant director of applied politics. Im also a board member of the been press club and have over a decade. And im a member of the white house transition project, which for those who dont know, it is a nonpartisan effort to provide by presidency scholars to provide information on president ial transitions and white house operations to those who are transitioning into the white house. Its a very Important Organization that happened to be one of the founders of that organization is martha kumar, who i am happy to introduce right now. She is an emeritus professor at towson university, and directo
I just want to thank the American Political Science Association and cspan for providing a broader environment for what is clearly a very important and relevant topic in 2019. That being this roundtable on the topic of the Trump White House and the White House Press core. My name is dave cohen. Im an actual professor of Political Science at the university of akron. I went back in time. Im an assistant director of the applied politics and a board member of the Akron Press Club and have been for over a decade and a member of the white house transition project which for those of you who dont know what the project is, its a nonpartisan effort by scholars to provide information on president ial transactions and white house operations to those transitioning into the white house. Its very important organization. And it happened to be one of the founders of that organization is martha kumar who i am happy to introduce right now. Shes an emeritus professor at Towson University and director and c
University of akron. [laughter] time. Back in im an assistant director of applied politics. Im also a board member of the Akron Press Club and have been over a decade. And im a member of the white house transition project, which for those who dont know, it is a nonpartisan effort by presidency scholars to provide information on president ial transitions and white house operations to those who are transitioning into the white house. Its a very Important Organization that happened to be one of the founders of that organization is martha kumar, who i am happy to introduce right now. She is an emeritus professor at Towson University and director and creator of the white house transition project. She is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles, including before the oath how george w. Bush and barack obama managed the transfer of power. Shes also the winner of the apsa 2008 best book award. Editor of other books, influential books in the area. In addition to her scholarly work, sh