Life to alexa, with light bulbs connected to firmware. My wife is not very happy with this, but i keep telling her, jen, it is Getting Better and better. Soon before you know it turning on the lights will be as easy as flipping a switch. [laughter] Household Items are the least important part of iot. Enterprise and industrial use will help us allocate resources more efficiently. There were two principal challenges well talk about. First is the network, which is what kind of infrastructure do we need to facilitate robust iot that need complete ubiquitous coverage but dont need to send videos to each other. Second, how do we secure the network. It is one thing for the terrorist to know that i need more ice cream, but its another when you talk about your self driving car or the electrical grid. We have a great panel today to discuss these issues. Again lets introduce them quickly and then we will go to discussion. Ralph alderfer, Vice President technology at cable outcome of Global Innova
Security and terrorism. She talked of the Hudson Institute in washington d. C. Earlier this week about how the department is adapting as the debts against the nation change. Her remarks are almost one hour. Good afternoon and welcome to Hudson Institute. Hudson is a policy Research Organization dedicated to promoting security freedom and prosperity through strong and engaged Us International leadership. I want to welcome both of our members of the audience and our good friends from cspan as well. One of the most important threats, potential threats in the United States is out of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological and nuclear agents to harm americans. We had this attacked the other day in new york which just imagine how much scarier it would have been had the terrace had weapons of mass destruction. Preventing such attacks are obviously critical to the president and his team and his august 24 speech that outlined a new strategy for overseas. He says we mu
In favor of brexit. That was like a tectonic shift and it was a major change with consequences that were both farreaching and unclear. Brexit changes everything, but how . So businesses, institutions and policymakers have been looking at this ever sense and rands study that we are talking about today looks at some possible outcomes and what they mean or our Economic Policy and for our operation so im excited to see many friends of the Wilson Center here today and that rand. Im going to introduce our panel and my idea is that we will hear from charlie about the bulkof this study. Turn this over to then michelle for some comments and then have fran and howard way in. Who are these people, you may ask . Charlie reese, Vice President international at rand, former Us Ambassador degrees and with a distinguished state Department Career including hosting the secretary for europe. Mister council for Economic Affairs in london and the European Union. In iraq he served as coordinator for economic
Being with us this morning. You are a man who lived through the Nuclear Threat of the cold war. Can you compare what that was like to the potential threats that we are aware of today in the world iran, north korea, other areas . Well, at the end of the cold war in the early 90s, a lot of people were hoping that the whole issue, the specter of Nuclear Weapons was behind this. Today i have to say that the possibility of a Nuclear Weapon beingty used is probably higher than any time since the human missile crisis and are concerned is less on inactive miscalculation that provides a faulty information for the United States and russia. Younu are feeling while you e energy secretary. Yes, indeed. Although i think its gotten worse in the intervening period. For example, with russia, lets face it our relationship is very, very poor at the moment. Much less communication that was going on and that is what adds to this idea that miscalculation is that could lead us to a very, very bad outcome. Yo
From the Houston Institute in washington starting at 12 15 p. M. Eastern. Recently our campaign 2016 made a visit to pennsylvania during the primary stop in a growth city college, slippery rock, university, washington Washington College and Jefferson College where students, professors and local officials officials learned about our resources covering the campaign trail. Visitors were able to share their thoughts about the upcoming election. Are best ended the week in warrington, pennsylvania where this it a middle school. A special thanks to our cable partners, comcast and armstrong cable for their help and coordinating the community visits. You can view that when he documentaries at cam. Org. Coming up next on cspan 2, a conversation on smart homes, homes that have lighting, heating and appliances controlled remotely by phone or computer. We will hear about the benefits of smart home since privacy and Security Risk from the Atlantic Council in washington. This is about 90 minutes. [in