Good evening everyone, welcome and thank you for supporting your local independently owned bookstore. Cspan is filming so please make sure all funds on silent. I do and to let you know about a couple events have coming up this month, tomorrow night haley reading from her and ran his new novel. Tuesday Steven Kinzer is going to present the history of the cia also outside events and tickets are Still Available for mondays conversation and for jonathan his foreign talk on wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary marcus, author of rebooting ai which is a human in jeopardy does not single engine signal we are on the doorstep or super intelligent machines. Taking inspiration from the human mind, the book explains that if we need to advance our social intelligence to the next level, suggestive we are wise along the way we wont need to worry about a machine overload. Finally a book that tells us what ai is, what it is not, and what ai could be, if only we are ambitious and creative enough. He calls
Lets try to figure out what it could be done with and what im the son of a math teacher kicked out a foreign art school twice most of architecture lot of people telling me what i want could never be done and its my job to prove theyre wrong so youre right i think mean house and. You know yeah yeah so those i think i think its sort of interesting to make connections between art between design between architecture between technology and making new links in order to activate the world around us i think indeed when i was young when i was 16 my parents always suggest a truce if the jews are to science or i dont want to choose i want to do it all so maybe its more about trying to find the combination or making new connections between all those disciplines and be a hybrid of all i suppose thats the film of our time so you really do anything you want theres no limit to it you know when youre always sort of an amateur trying to become an expert and so youre driven by curiosity rather than defin
A. Young broken innocence long time ago i worked in a secondhand bookstore not so far from here a student but sometimes i would work late at night and it was 2nd hand bookstore and the train would already leave so they would allow me to sleep in the bookstore and there was one space of a little bit smaller than this phase which exactly fit that the one person metrics in that space was the russian literature space pushkin goal chicle novel called the ask so i would fall asleep being surrounded by these great masters and you know i really feel sort of influenced my dreams at that time but its still there yeah so is there a big dreamers oh yeah exactly its almost there in my brain as well and that was for these years as a reader did you know you there or are we just. Looking at. Where you are here. It was russian that your find it yes no youre there yeah yeah i like gogol i like the city stories like the crazy ones or the yeah but its sort of the world is brutal but its also poetic and th
How 7 year old pain to me can you know a car is making a splash in the art world and. Why the irish 30 Year Old Girl wait is the European Capital of culture and this year. If you like to take a cold shower in the morning or have accidentally turned on the cold water then you know it feels like minus 10 degrees but of course its a bit warm hearty wouldnt sweat most go into the water so when its just above freezing we thought that would be a nice challenge for feel as youre a max report to max merit in our series quirky customs he travels to north and finland to where and i see swim is very popular in winter. This town in northern finland is playing host to a frosty race in the icy water its minus 12 degrees celsius outside but the locals take to the water as if it was summer. By hard work a customer says let me see you in super bowl oven finland and today im taking part ice with me champagne chips in the fields trust me they are absolutely bonkers. Ive arrived the day before the race in
She first did her First Painting of Abraham Lincoln in 1983. Since then, she has focused on Abraham Lincoln as her subject and has made many paintings of different styles which people talk about. Been active, being , had hered by cnn paintings in the historical society, along with some other people you might have heard of. Salvador dali, he was there too. Norman rockwell, robert rauschenberg. Certainly in very good company. Sheddition to all of this, lives in gettysburg and has a gallery up there. She is also very active with the fellowship of pennsylvania. At the end well talk about the lincoln fellowship and her hundred nights of taps, a program that she runs in pennsylvania. Please welcome wendy allen. [applause] before i begin, i would like to thank david. I made his life miserable today with this technology. All weekend all weekend, sorry. It is an entire multimedia presentation with video and everything. Im surprised she is still talking to be. Thank you. Take you, john as well.