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
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Theauthors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savanna welcome to and jean ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us and the focus for the last negroes at harvard and 61 years ago , harvard admitted 18 negroes and thats what we were called then and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted harvard. We were from all different parts of the country. North, south, east and west and we came from economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we heretofore they had been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time most guys would just go and do their four years and get out of town. We leave cameras but was different in the sense that we had numbers. 18 and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. We were able to become actually a force for change at harvard and harvard, we changed harvard and harvard changed us and that essentially what the book is about, its about our four years here and what happened before and