Readers. [applause] good evening and welcome to the strand rare book room, my name is nancy beth lied and for a little bit of history the store was founded by my grandfather benjamin bass in 1927 and then my dad who passed away, fred bass, it was a part of new yorks famous book row which ran along Fourth Avenue one block away from astro place to union square and there were 48 used bookstores that all kind of competed with one another. All the stores have shattered except for the strand. I want to thank you all, you voracious readers because we are Still Family Owned and still driving, in fact, we are doing 400 events and discussions just like the one tonight and even tonight we have four events. Its really fun. Thank you. And thank you cspan for filming this. Happiness is the best medicine, yet americans will spend 3. 4 billion on medicine and healthcare this year. So, thats largeness to send every family of four a check for 40,000 for their care. We all know that happiness is not a bi
I like to welcome everybody to russia and eurasia seminar. We do it every two weeks. As you know, and today we, given the speaker we have and the topic hes going to deal with, we had the pleasure of welcoming cspan here, which is broadcasting this event, as far as i can tell, live on cspan two. Im charles gati. I organized the similars. I say very little because i want the speaker to have as much time as possible. Just to give you a little background, he comes from massachusetts. He went, studied soviet studies at harvard. Before that got his ba also in soviet studies and Political Science from tufts university, at harvard he studied with legendary adam alone, and that tufts with old friend of mine. He laughed washington after some 24 or 25 years, and now hes a professor at, in florida, at the program for human rights and diplomacy at Florida International university and moved, is shrouded in mystery because few people do that perhaps it will tell us, and also declassified information
Silence. Tomorrow night the author will be reading from his new novel. On tuesday poisener in chiefs author will be joining us. We will also have a talk on wednesday. We welcome the author of rebooting ai which argues a computer being a human in jeopardy doesnt signal that we are on the doorstep of fully Autonomous Cars or super intelligence machines. Taking inspiration from the human minds, the book explains if we need to advance Artificial Intelligence to the next level, if we are wise along the way, we wont need to worry about a future of machine overlords. Finally a book what tells us what ai is, what it is not and what it could become if were ambitious and creative enough. Its also been called an informed account. The founder and ceo of robust ai and founder and ceo of intelligence. Hes published in journals including science in nature. Hes the author of guitar zero and rebooting ai. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] uhoh, this is not good. Um, okay, maybe it will be all
Discussed. Then later Kelly Harding explores a link between mental and physical health. We are back live at the National Book festival. Were pleased to have join us now on our book tv set professor Thomas Malone of mit. Heres his most recent book. It is called superminds, the surprising power of people and Computers Thinking together. Before we get into the topic of the book, professor, what is it that you do at mit . Im a professor in the sloan school of management and director of the mit center for collective intelligence. Pleasure to be here. What kind of Management Training do you give at mit . I teach two main courses. One is an mba course on strategic organizational design, about how to organize companies in different situations, including Innovative New things like wikipedia, for instance. And the other is a leadership workshop where i talk about or help students learn about different capabilities for leadership. What is the collective intelligence senter . We study the kinds of
Good evening everyone. My name is elizabeth arliss a member of events task at politics and prose. A couple quick notes before we get started if you havent already, please silence your cell phone. Feel free to keep them on, take pictures, tag us on social media. Just do it silently. We have cspan booktv here tonight and you dont want to be the person whose phone starts ringing on national television. When we get to the q a portion i will pass around a wireless microphone. If you have a question, which we highly encourage, please raise your hand wait for me to get you with a microphone and speak into it that way everyone can hear you and everyone who might be watching on sometime in the future can hear you as well. If you have not yet purchased a copy of the book and you decide after the talk you would like to they are available at the register at front you can buy a copy or two or three or four how many you decide you need hopefully more than one. After the event awill be right over her