You must have wondered, as i did, whether there was anything a private citizen could do about a problem so big. That is why we decided to study the situation. The results are published in this book. We call it freedom of the american road, simply because we americans always have liked plenty of elbow room freedom to come and , go as we please in this great country of ours. The first thing we found was that you cannot talk about highways without talking about traffic and safe driving, too. We found many highway and Traffic Safety experts who are doing a Great Service to the public. What they need is public understanding and support. But the most important thing we discovered was that already many private citizens and communities across the nation have gotten together to tackle their local problems with real success. We present a few of their stories in this motion picture. We do so with pride, for here, it seems to me, is real democracy in action. And now, for a firsthand report, lets g
You all have in your folders cards like this which are an invitation to commemorative activities, a celebration at the witch trials memorial tomorrow. I am here to introduce our keynote speaker. I have noticed that we have not really talked about the people who have sponsored this symposium. I mentioned the Salem Award Foundation. I have to tell you, donna has been driving this bus. [applause] i know she has pulled the entire History Department along in her wake. I wanted to make sure she got credit for the incredible amount of hard work that it takes to pull off an event like this. It has been a wonderful day. On to what i am supposed to be talking about. I am glad our keynote address is in the afternoon rather than in the morning because, i think, we have all had time to stop and think about what the problems we face in commemorating something that happened 325 years ago. Perhaps nobody has given it more thought than our speaker today, dr. Kenneth foote. I had planned to pull a few c
You must have wondered, as i did, whether there was anything a private citizen could do about a problem so big. That is why we decided to study the situation. The results are published in this book. We call it freedom of the american road, simply because we americans always have liked plenty of elbow room freedom to come and , go as we please in this great country of ours. The first thing we found was that you cannot talk about highways without talking about traffic and safe driving, too. We found many highway and Traffic Safety experts who are doing a Great Service to the public. What they need is public understanding and support. But the most important thing we discovered was that already many private citizens and communities across the nation have gotten together to tackle their local problems with real success. We present a few of their stories in this motion picture. We do so with pride, for here, it seems to me, is real democracy in action. And now, for a firsthand report, lets g
You all have in your folders cards like this which are an invitation to commemorative activities, a celebration at the witch trials memorial tomorrow. I am here to introduce our keynote speaker. I have noticed that we have not really talked about the people who have sponsored this symposium. I mentioned the Salem Award Foundation. I have to tell you, donna has been driving this bus. [applause] i know she has pulled the entire History Department along in her wake. I wanted to make sure she got credit for the incredible amount of hard work that it takes to pull off an event like this. It has been a wonderful day. On to what i am supposed to be talking about. I am glad our keynote address is in the afternoon rather than in the morning because, i think, we have all had time to stop and think about what the problems we face in commemorating something that happened 325 years ago. Perhaps nobody has given it more thought than our speaker today, dr. Kenneth foote. I had planned to pull a few c
Cities tour. Mr. Spicer right now, we are in the revolution exhibit at the Computer History Museum in mountain view, california. Behind me are over 1000 artifacts that tell about the history of computing, going back to thousand years. The exhibit is laid out into 19 galleries, each one focuses on a certain theme or object from the history of computing. For example one of those themes , is realtime control. Here we look at things like pacemakers for hearts. These are Computer Systems that must function. Theyre not like your laptop, which can crash once in a while and the worst is that you lose your work. If a pacemaker crashes, you die. The oldest item is a set of what are called napiers bones, small ivory counting sticks from the 17th century. The most recent thing we have is an iphone, the first model. We are in the punchcard gallery. Behind me, you see a replica of an 1890 census machine. What is this . In the bureau of the census had 1890, just finished the census, which requires a