You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. We are honored to come full circle hosting not only a local author but regular customer at the bookstore and uncover tech culture and Silicon Valley news, has appeared in the atlantic, wired antimagazine and other publications. Mike isaac is a Technology Reporter at the New York Times who won the award for distinguished business reporting and write about uber and other Silicon Valley giant it appears on cnbc and msnbc. The book signing will be at the back desk right there and appreciate it if you keep the line along the wall to the far right. I need to take a photo of you. I thought there would be 20 people here. All friends. A fireside chat. If this were a congressional hearing. Be on your cspan behavior. I am not going to curse tonight, or try not to. I was thinking and you were thinking we should probably start off with moving something. I dont know if you r
Reporter and from cnbc and msnbc. We appreciate it. [inaudible] [applause]. With a congressional hearing. So i will not curse tonight. I will try not to. We should probably start off. Thank you for coming especially those of you who are standing. But yes thank you for coming this is nice. And the section dear to my heart about venture capitalist on twitter and this was is relevant and then venture capitalism. [laughter] thank you for your service. Do you hate yourself asked the therapist in berkeley . [laughter] that comes on strong for the intake session but then following venture capitalist on the microblogging platform the venture capitalists discussing the universal basic income and i cannot look away very concerned about the potential of the urban poor as the oceans temperatures took the added habitability that specifically the question if they are china would own it. And then to have the renaissance to do the work for the rest of us so we can focus on our arch. And then the ratio
Protection, Transportation Security Administration, and a secret service answer questions from the House Homeland Security committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security use of a facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting to examine department of Homeland Security use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The government use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, finger prints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics includes dna, voice pattern and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen forum of Biometric Technology as facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the
Speaker, dr. Christy pichichero. Dr. Pichichero, our good friend and neighbor, is an associate professor at george mason university. Her talk this evening is being held in conjunction with our current exhibition, revolutionary reflections french memories of the war for america, which is on view in our gallery immediately behind this fireplace and will be open after the talk this evening. Dr. Pichichero will be discussing war and the enlightenment in the context of french experiences during the American Revolution. Many french officers of this era, such as rochambeau, whose writings are featured in our show, consider themselves military philosophers who brought enlightenment and philosophical spirit to their military enterprises. Their experience is in america had a profound impact on their politics and worldviews when they returned to france after the war. These themes are at the center book, theheros military enlightenment war and culture in the french empire from louis xiv to napoleo
Good morning. Thank you very m good morning thank you for theon introduction we are excited to be here today to have a conversation around authority at the state department to communicate American Values and form policy to engage the public all across the world. Theres never been in more important time for public to policy today its more important than ever engaging people and the public individuals and citizens in American Values and form policy and the Critical Issues of our time isn probably a requirement for success and theres a number of factors to this the world is increasingly interconnected andrl transparent so you have a number of factors making Public Diplomacy so the first is technology with a proliferation of channels and platforms in ways that we can communicate with citizens across the world so when we have theseer conversations but then you also have Technology Driving these risks look at Public Diplomacy we are can it survive the internet . Take a look at the trends. Ch