Delighted to have Joshua Hammer back with us at the p p and josh was here first last book about four years ago. Host that would of course was a bad librarian, timbuktu. And it told the riveting story of how an argument in timbuktu and manage with a very brave helper, this mobile more than three or 50000 historical manuscripts out from under militants to safety about 600 miles away. The book was a bestseller and establish josh, as someone for night for some really truly great stories. Any student again with his new book, the falcon thief which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure and this one about wildlife. Josh is a journalist by trade and other pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself. He was working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined newsweek in the late 1980s as a Business Media writer, and within a few years he was off the cover the rest of the world on postings that make him in, nairobi, berlin, jerusalem, cape town and back here in the u. S. In l
Hello, everyone. Can you hear me okay . Okay, im trying not to be in the view but by the end of this we will be behind the curtain. Welcome to kate dawsons book events. My name isto becca oliver and im the director of the writers of texas and we are the largest Literary Arts Organization in texas and we support writers and one of the things we love to dor is have the opportunity to talk to published authors about ther most recent book but also to dig in a little more than i think we get to as often as we would like to add book events which has a craft talk. Talk more aboutut what craft wet into creating the book and especially for the book were talking about today, american sherlock, there are so many interesting things that kate can share that would be applicable to any writer that happens to be here. Who here is a writer . Who here writes but did not raise their hand . Yes, there are always a few of you. [laughter] we will make sure we get to conversation about craft as well. I just
Im bradley graham, coowner of the store along with my life and we are delighted to have Joshua Hammer back with us at pmp. Josh was here for his last book about four years ago and matt was the bad ass librarians of timbuktu which told the riveting story of how an archivist in timbuktu managed with some very brave helpers to smuggle more than 350,000 historical manuscripts out from under militant jihadist to safety about 600 miles away and the book was a bestseller and established at joshs someone for a night with an eye for really truly read story. Hes done it again with his new book, the falcon thief which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure. This one, about wildlife. E t josh is a journalist by training and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himselfgl working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined newsweek and the late 1980s as a business and media writer but within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world on postings that paste them in
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Own work when the subject of algorithmic fairness for privacy is not frontpage news. Today we are going to speak to the two leading lights in area they will help us understand what the state of the art is that what the state of the art will be going forward. With that i think we will welcome professor Michael Kearns first to the stage. Is that right . Great. Michael and erin, welcome to the stage. [applause] ok, good morning. Thanks to everyone for coming. My name is Michael Kearns and with my close friend and colleague aaron roth we have coauthored a book, a general artist book called the ethical algorithm whose who subtitle e site of socially aware outcome design. We want to do for roughly half an hour so is just take you a high level to what some of the major themes of the book are and then well open it up as jeff said to q a. I think many, many people and certainly this audience is well aware that in the past decade or so wishing learning has gone from a relatively obscure corner o