Security will come to order. Let me say at the outset a number of our members are still in route from the Prayer Breakfast this morning. And they will join us accordingly. The Ranking Member being one of them. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the department of Homeland Securitys use of facial recognition of Biometric Technologies. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. The committees meeting today to continue examining the department of Homeland Securitys use of facial Recognition Technology. The Committee Held part one of this hearing in july of last year after new ths that the department was expanding its use of facial recognition for varying purposes such as confirming the identity of travellers including u. S. Citizens. As facial Recognition Technology has advanced, it has become the chosen form of Biometric Technology used by the government and industry. I want to reiterate that im not holy op
The Youth Commission. We have to give them credit with this and mix this with matt hainey. This city should be ashamed of themselves, that the fbi, a federal agency had to come in and teach all of us, all of us that we have to checks and balances. And so we have a Sunshine Task force that totally doesnt work. The Ethics Commission totally doesnt work and the Controllers Office has a gun to their head with people telling him what to do and what not to do. Since 2014, i wont do the research and tell you the City Attorney hasnt been doing their job and so, corruption in this city and county of San Francisco has reached a saturation point, where millions and millions and millions of dollars are wasted. And you know, when the Youth Commission needs Something Like a couple of thousand dollars oh, you know, this and you know that. They should have, like, a Million Dollars. You are the future. We need the money. Without the money, you cant have the honey. So im saying you all dont do Due Dilig
Unbound, and this new one of course speaks t to a very wide d a significanband of significanty in our politics, a subject thats been an area thats been a subject of an enormous amount sought in arguments in many years, the question of nationalism of the nation and what it is in our politics, its connection to some of these forces and threats that have been driving the politics of the west in recent years. Our format will be very simple. We will hear a little bit about the book and he and i will then discuss the few minute minutes t opened up to questions from you. So, please lets welcome rich. [applause] enqueue everyone. It is a pleasure to be here. Thank you for making the time. I will share with you what has been my favorite moment from my book tour so far. It came very early on and on the second day at an npr interview. Npr has a practice i like to think of as professor ring. So, what they do thi did is thee no artist is and you give your take on history or policy, then they have a
The university of washington history professor Margaret Omara discusses her book the code. You have the biggest of Big Government programs, the space race. The militaryindustrial complex, that becomes the foundation for this flywheel of an incredible creation and innovation and wealth, private wealth creation, and an industry that considers itself that built itself up on its own, that has become invisible to many people who are in silicon valley, who are the creators of these companies. They think there is not a world, but there is. That is part of the magic, that it is a government out of sight. Cer on sundayun night, on cspan. Martinup, ibm cocreator on mark dean on technology and innovation. Then a hearing on the cost of raising a family. Now computer engineer mark dean. Harold good afternoon, everyone. Glad you made it in the inclement weather. We have a nice representation of people for what i think is going to be an exciting talk. So we are glad you are here. Harold conner, and i
A gold medal win for each education was was top of the class sure and i think that is something that has kind of flown the routes the kind of proudness about our Education System because its kind of bound to the d finnish d. N. A. Its comes from kind of a 150 years ago when when finland was actually a very poor country and when 1st the ideas about finland one day being an independent nation started. Then there was the idea that whats the best way for finland to be a nation among nations and the answer warse that if we can raise the kind of cultural or language stick skills level of the whole population that is the best way for us to become independent and that was actually also the means that was taken the idea to educate everybody in the Finnish Society and thats kind of its still kind of carries on that same idea that the equality is by far the most important principle in the finisher to cations system so education a symbol of collective National Achievement when we see service showi