Noise. Members are responsible for on muting themselves when they wish to seek recognition. Somebody is not muted right now. Can you check to see if you are muted . Required tobers are leave their cameras on the entire time they are in official proceedings, even if they step away from the camera. Hearing, theremote Committee Chair is officially closed. Members who sit with their devices in the room must wear headphones to avoid feedback, echoes, and distortion resulting from more than one person on the platform sitting in the same room. Use are also expected to social distancing guidelines including the use of masks, gloves, and wiping down the area in the hearing room. Questions, if the witness is also in the hearing room, it would help if you mute while the answer is taking place , because the answer is picked up by your mike and that echoes back and there is usually distortion. The rollcall is not necessary to establish a quorum in official proceedings conducted remotely. When there
Muted p. Further, members are required to leave their cameras on the entire time theyre in an official proceeding, even if they step away from the camera in which case we should see an empty chair, as this is an entirely remote hearing. The committees hearing room is officially closed. Members who chose to sit with their individual devices in the hearing room must wear headphones to avoid feedback he can as and disportion resulting from more than one person on the platform sitting in the same room. Were also expected to hear the social distancing Safe Health Care guidelines, including the use of masks, gloves and wiping down the area before and after their presence in the hearing room. And i also note that when you ask questions if youre in the hearing room if the witness is also in the hearing room it would help if you mute while the answer is taking place because the answer is picked up by your mike and then that echoes back in this mutualal distortion. The roll call is not necessary
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
Chief for nbc news, former editor of newsweek, and an author as well. His newest book is called saying it loud 1966the year black power challenged the Civil Rights Movement. Mr. Whitaker,mportant about the year 1966 . It is a year when, after a decade of a Civil Rights Movement that people have associated with Martin Luther king and had been focused on the fight against discrimination, jim crow, Voting Rights and so forth that we all remember, there was this young generation of blacks who rose up to question a lot of the goals and also the tactics. It was a year that Stokely Carmichael took over the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from john lewis, the great civil rights icon. It was the year the black panthers were formed in oakland, california. It was also the year when a lot of young black folks said we dont want to be called negros anymore, started wearing afros, the dashikis, and the firstyear kwanzaa was celebrated. Why the phrase black power become en vogue . The phrase
Bblg of. Mr. Sanders mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , as everybody knows, the Republican Party now controls the u. S. House, the u. S. Senate, and the white house. We also know that unless a budget agreement is reached by december 22, the United States government will shut down, which will cause serious harm to our country, including the men and women in the armed forces and our veterans. Mr. President , i do not know why the Republican Party, which controls all the branches of government, wants to shut our government down. I think thats wrong. I think a shutdown will be very hurtful to people from coast to coast. Now, President Trump said earlier this year, he tweeted, quote, our country needs a good shutdown, end of quote. I strongly disagree. I dont think we need a good shutdown. I think we need to reach an agreement on a budget which works for the middle class of our country and not just the wealth