Cues and to detect emotions. Hello, everybody, happy friday. My name is beri meric, cofounder and ceo at ivy, and its my pleasure to introduce you to rana el kaliouby. Welcome to ivy. How are you . Good. Happy friday, everybody. Im very well. Thank you so much. Really excited to have you here to share with everybody the context of what were going to be doing today. So rana is the cofounder and ceo and a pioneer of emotional and artificial intelligence. Were going to be having a fascinating conversation on how to reclaim our humanity by bringing Emotional Intelligence to technology. Just a little more about rana, she was named by forbes in their list of americas top 50 women in tech, and fortune recently included her on their list. She was also the cohost of a pbs nova series on a. I. In 2018, and shes an all around awesome person. Its really great to have you here, rana. I just want to share how this topic ties into ivys overall mission. So at ivy, everything we do is to help ourselves
With, and connects to, the pandemic we are living through right now, right here, in april 2020. So many of us arent home, working at home, living at home, and sheltering in place as science takes on the covid19 virus. I am so fortunate to have a truly skilled and knowledgeable colleague joining me today scholar who wears many hats suspending histories archaeology, and geography. John hessler is the director of the collection at the library of congress. In a specialist on early america. He is the author of a book recently copublished by the library of congress, called collecting for a new world. John is also a distinguished curator in the libraries geography and map division and an expert and mapping in general. Now how does mapping fit in with all this . He is an advisor to a number of leading edge institutions in this country as they tech this bread of covid19 and understand how mostly populations and time. John, welcome. Thank you marie great to be here. Thank you for joining me. Let
Mengele. Hi, everybody. Welcome to this broadcast. Im sorry that weve had a little delay. One of our speakers, David Goldman, has had trouble with his computer, and is so we are doing a little improvisation and workaround, so we will have him just on audio, and well see how that goes. But we hope that you can hear well enough if we do it this way. And let us know in the chat box if thats working for you. Just a warm hello to all of you. Im so happy to see that there are so many of you. My name is dorothea, im one of the openers of lab precipitate books, and i want to thank our speakers for being game to speak speak to switch to this new medium, new for all of us, i think, of live stream. We are presenting that tonight in partnership with our very good friends at the princetop public library. I think princeton. I think were all gripped by the precarious and frightening reality of this moment, but or there are so many books that can serve as antidotes, and this is certainly one of those
To technology. Just a little more about rana, she was named by forbes in their list of americas top 50 women in tech and fortune included her in their list of 40 under 40. She was also the cohost of pbs nova series on ai in 2018 its really great to have you here rana. Before we dive in. I want to share how this topic into the iv overall mission. It ivy everything we do is to help unlock our own potential and the potential of people around us. So that happens through learning and through community. The more we learn about the world and about ourselves and the more we surround ourselves with other passionate individuals i want to make a lasting positive impact the better we will do the better we will unlock our potential. When i reflect on this topic Emotional Intelligence, ai, this isnt just about machines its also a lot about us and the future that we want to shape and we want to be a part of. I want to kick off by asking you why is this topic so important . Why have you chosen to writ
I noticed this morning, driving in, about 2 00, the people were driving crazy. Theyre coming up, tailing me, right on my bumper, not going fast enough for them, zip, zip, zip. Whats going on . If i zoom in on that camera and get that guys license plate, ill get to his house. I never cussed so much on the way to work. Oh, there you go. 4 01, going to be a good start here. No tailgating anybody here at headlight out. Schuylkill expressway in the tunnels under 30th street station, still construction from ends to end down to one lane, right there at 30th street. Then also working out near conshy. Live look at the ben franklin bridge. No problems or delays at all. Hey, here is the deal. Were all going somewhere today. We all know it, unless youve been living under a rock, one of the busiest travel days of the year. It is all about the timing of what time you decide to leave. If you are going to drive right into the thick of things, later on this afternoon, then youre going to get what you g