Hop Health Officer abruptly resigned. I try not to have personnel conversations in public. I dont know that it serves the larger good. At the end of the day, he buck stops with me. Im accountable. Reporter the governor saying testing is one of the governments top priorities, and said there are encouraging signs that the number of coronavirus cases is slowing from the rapid increases we saw in july. Encouraging signs, but not the kind of stability and long term decline that we ultimately need to get to where everybody wants to go. For now, dr. Erica pan, previouslyiously alameda countys top Health Officer is the states top Health Officer. In San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. In washington, President Trumps Coronavirus Briefing was interrupted this afternoon by secret Service Agent who asked the president to leave the room. The briefing had just gotten started when the agent came in and spoke to the president who quickly followed him out of the room. We later learned ther
Create a digital stage. Like everyone is willing to stare or talk into their computers some for the first time id like to thank katie for help us keep the conversation going. Our program tonight can be viewed in native habitat on crowdcast and facebook and youtube pagers. Head to youtube to enable realtime captions by clicking the cc button on the bop right corner. The video will be available for rewatching immediately following tonights. Tonights presentation will last around 35 to 40 minutes. Afterwards katie will take questions. Submitture question biz using the ask a question button on crowdcast. We cannot guarantee well get to every question but try to get to as men as possible. Upcoming programs including the and two awning series, the engage uw science series featuring reports from uw labs and still nor installmentments of the earshot jazz live from the forum. We are adding new programs and new releases in podcast, and many past talks are available in video and podcast form. So
Company. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Welcome everybody, i am the dean at the Journalism School and im very pleased to welcome you to tonights conversation with the 2020 prizewinners, i am sorry we are conducting this conversation virtually rather than in the room at columbia, i hope her back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around. And probably among the folks who are being honored tonight. What were going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremony since zoom is not a capacious place to exchange awards and the like so we will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then walk us through that, when we are done we will take your questions in chat and we will try to wrap up in an hour using the
[ applause ] dont get carried away. Shell get, you know. Now, obviously, i could do this privately and i have, but id like to say a public thank you to terry for her support, which has not only been tangible in support of the series but also personal in her encouragement and advice over the course of many years, including many good topic suggestions and if you are here, you know she was responsible for the beach boys, but others we have enjoyed over the years. Thanks to her suggestion. So, terry, would you please stand up . [ applause ] now, tonights speaker claire l. Evans has achieved notable success both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conception al pop group yacht and has in fact recently turned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. In that regard, she is the former futures editor of mother board and a contributor to vic
Are giving him a name tag. Welcome, michael and everyone else. I am jane harman, president and ceo of the Wilson Center. It is the best job on the planet because i get to talk to geniuses every single day. One of them who is not in my script but i will call around is meg king, she runs our science, technology and Innovation Program and is responsible for the schools we have on fridays to teach capitol hill staff about cyber and Artificial Intelligence and todays genius, that would be ben buchanan, our go to guy when we teach those schools and he has been trying to teach me for a while. I have been the repeater of all time at some of those schools. Im getting it but i have an analog brain and i thank ben for his patients. Been is a global fellow and he will discuss his latest book right now called Meghan Bedsted to Meghan Bedsted to hackers have changed the world. Cyberoperations are intelligibly part of International Relations and the gap between the United States and other countries h