All of the women, shes going back just pulled over the side of the road and asked gore to speak to her about what she was doing. To make herself. I remember her taking homeless men and women into home in gaithersburg which did not please the neighbors. And so then she moved into the neighborhood where there was a problem with a rundown house to i let her pick it up from there to talk about what she does house of help and the city of hope. Thank you, bob. Good afternoon, good morning, everybody. Ive been working really hard. House of help city of hope as a nonprofit faithbased organization that helps residents and also helps its volunteers. And just recently we had to downsize. But downsize is a nasty word but its a good thing. It determines when i use it and how you shift. So we decided to downsize. While we would downsize to make what we did equality of what we do better even if we couldnt increase the quantity. And so i just left my staff. We just put in for a 1 million grant to take
Longterm. Unfortunately because of the shortterm thinking that reigned supreme in this question of sustainability hasnt really come up at all. As i said before for all the money the International Community is spending on the Afghan Government to build the judiciary, the parliament to build capacity worldwide money is also going to warlords and strongmen. The u. S. Taxpayer dollars are still going to warlords and strongmen around the country and thats bad in and of itself but its also bad because it ensures continued weakness of the Afghan Government. So adjusting that will be the other aspect of the thing that the u. S. Should do. The last question im left here. You spoke about growing your beard out in getting a motorcycle and going and actually meeting with the taliban warlord. Can you speak a little more about that and were you ever afraid for your life at any point . Well you know, in 2008 in 2009 it was different than it is today. At the time the taliban headache coherent command
In his book the innovators. During this event held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View california mr. Isakson discusses his book with Computer History Museum president and ceo john hollar and then takes audience questions. And now for tonights program program, the history of computing is the ongoing story of how one of the greatest periods of creativity in Human History has been unleashed. It is he even sorts out the real story between the internet. Walter will take us on a journey starting with the distant figures but important figures of john babich. Please join me in welcoming walter isaacson. C thank you john. Its great to be back and this is an amazingly wonderful place. Its such an honor to be back here and you can even reveal my inner geek if you need to. C i think you are about to do that yourself. I grew up soldering ham radios. My dad was an electrical engineer and i love Circuit Boards so its good to get back and write about them. Is that how you originally got i
The practical engineer and the process of collaboration babbage and lovelace had their own form of that from early on. He called her my views. We should not overstate her. She was in some ways not as great a mathematician as she would like to believe but could generate and understand the sequence of bernoulli numbers and make a chart a chart which becomes the First Published program. We should all celebrated. [applauding] yes. I say, okay. Tell me the seventh, eighth, ninth in the sequence of bernoulli numbers and how you would do a chart on a mechanical processor like that one to generate them. Then people understand what a partnership she had and how important she was to babbage trying to create what he thought was a numerical calculator, but she has the insight that it is not just for numbers. Her mom had taken her to the midlands of england to look at the mechanical weaving runs using punch cards. You have them downstairs and this museum. The punch cards of the shop card looms of t
Is kenneth fine berg, from the Victim Compensation fund and author of the book what is the life worth . The unprecedented effort to compensate the victims of 9 11. Kenneth fineberg, why did you call the book that you just wrote what is life worth . Because congress in setting up this program after 9 11 delegated to me and really to me alone the requirement the obligation to try and calculate what each death caused by 9 11 or each physical injury should be paid out of public funds. What were you called . I was called a rather judicial term a special master. That connotes in the law somebody who is sort of delegated authority. Usually by a court. To act as some administrative arm of the court to administer or design a settlement and then to allocate the proceeds of the settlement. How many people did you award money to and how much . I awarded 7 billion dollars of taxpayer funds, all public funds, to approximately 5300 people. 3,000, roughly, 2,900 families who lost a loved one on 9 11 a