At any time and without objections, members not on the task force are allowed to participate consistent with the committees practice. And this is entitled robots and ai and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Financial Service industry. Thank you all for joining us for what is an interesting hearing of the task force. Today, we are looking at exploring how a. I. Is being deployed in the Capital Markets from automated trading to port follow allocation to Investment Management decisions. We are also going to consider how the use of this technology is changing the nature of work in Financial Services and rendering some jobs obsolete, and changing the skillset needed to service others. It is not an exaggeration today to say that wall street is quite literally run by computers and long gone are the days when the traders would be screaming on the floors of the new york stock exchange, and they would use t. I. Calculators and pour over the ticker tape to determine the companys value.
The subcommittee will come to order. Thank you all very, very much and, again, we apologize for being late. Days take on a life of their own. But i wanted to say good morning, dr. Collins. Welcome back to labor hhs, the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say thank you on behalf of the of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for the site visit at the nih campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about nihs work. We met with the researchers who were working to cure Sickle Cell Disease, to develop treatments for major depression, shrink and treat cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials. So it was a moving an informative but a very moving experience as well. Let me welcome our witnesses, including the five institute and Center Directors who join us today and in addition, and always a great addition, dr. Francis collins whos joined us many times, director of the National Institutes
This is 40 minutes. We are getting so excited for earth day. We want to share some of the exciting Earth Science missions we have coming up and some announcements. Today we have nasa administrator bill nelson, karen shake jermaine, Division Director for nasa Earth Sciences, tom waggoner, associate director for earth action within our Earth Sciences division. We have some exciting thing to discuss with you today. We will announce a new airborne science mission, new elements in our Earth Science strategy, as well as a new visualization from our mission, pace, plankton, aerosol, cloud, ocean ecosystem. First, administrator nelson will give us more information about what we are here for today. As you know, we are a Climate Agency in addition to being a space agency, Aeronautical Research agency, and that is because we have these two dozen instruments and satellites on orbit that look at the earth, look at it, bring us data realtime within a matter of seconds that it takes the transmission
Sciences division. We have some exciting thing to discuss with you today. We will announce a new airborne science mission, new elements in our Earth Science strategy, as well as a new visualization from our mission, pace, plankton, aerosol, cloud, ocean ecosystem. First, administrator nelson will give us more information about what we are here for today. As you know, we are a Climate Agency in addition to being a space agency, Aeronautical Research agency, and that is because we have these two dozen instruments and satellites on orbit that look at the earth, look at it, bring us data realtime within a matter of seconds that it takes the transmission from the satellites back to earth. We have all put together this Earth Information Center to try and bring this information to the public. Not only in a physical structure such as here at nasa headquarters, but also at one of these smithsonian institutions. But we bring in virtually as well to people. Up to the minute, Realtime Data on what