Content solely with his Award Winning best selling biography benjamin franklin, Alberta Einstein and steve jobs he has returned once more to paint a very large canvas and the book gives the innovators how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution were all delighted to have learned in the process that he has the energy can has tapped into it directly. Steve jobs and more ways year but also has a story about the lesser known icons of computing the women who program for example, or those hackers behind the first online communities and the skier belgian engineering gave rise to the World Wide Web and even sorts out there real story behind allegory and the internet. [laughter] he will take as an abbreviated journey with a distant figures please join me to welcome walter issacson. [applause] welcome back. Is great to be back this is an amazingly wonderful place it is such an honor to be back here. You can even reveal my inner geek. [laughter] host you are about t
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
Lets get the lawyers out of this. Lets go back to the any act women. A littleknown obscure story and computing. They recruit young women, mostly mostly math majors from small, midwestern colleges bring them all to pennsylvania and decide that they are going to be assigned the task of programming this computer. Why are they simultaneously so obscure and yet plays such an Important Role . Partly because this happened during the war. Originally done to calculate missile trajectories for artillery tables. As the war is ending in 46 they realize that it has to do other things. I wanted to no if this Hydrogen Bomb concept will actually work. And women are the ones who understand how to program it they get written out because the boys with their toys thought that they were in charge, and the day that they unveil eniac finally in 1946 it is valentines day. The New York Times is there all sorts of dignitaries and finally show off this new machine. Jean jennings nick francis and others do the pr
Faithful as we anticipate a long and challenging day remind us that you call us not to success but to faithfulness. Give our senators and the members of their staffs wisdom to make the commitment to be true to you and to serve your purposes. Let not discordant notes destroy the melody of their labors as they seek your counsel and wisdom. Lord guide our great nation. Help it to be a lighthouse to a dark and turbulent world. Prosper the works of our hands until the kingdoms of this world become the spring board for your eternal reign. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell for years the democratled senate refused to pass a balanced budget. It usually fa
Lost power sunday causing it to become stranded with little food and fewer working bathroom. Jay gray is live in alabama where the ship is set to dock. Jay, good morning. Reporter good morning, to you. Yeah, its been described by passengers as a difficult and disgusting trip, one that should end this afternoon as the ship is pulled into the cruise terminal here. A third tug boat joined the crew pulling the cruise liner toward this dock. Weve been doing a lot of work to activate the terminal again. Weve been doing a lot of logistics, security as well as trying to make this experience one that wont be come better so many for the passengers. Reporter more than 3,000 passengers have suffered through a lack of food, air conditioning and working rest rooms. The worst part is the rest rooms. Theres no water. You cant really flush. So everyone is going in little plastic baggies and putting it outside their rooms. The stench is described as overwhelming and inescapable. Carnival apologized. The