Comments cspan. Org. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Know a conversation on technology and social media, and well hear from an executive from lincoln and the founders of change. Org and the magazine mental cross, the atlantic and the Aspen Institute cohosted this hourlong event. Please welcome to the stage megan garver, Christina Lewisid halperin and nicholas missoula. Hi. Hi. Good morning. Good morning. Today its my honor to welcome this great group of people. I want to get right to the conversation. So im going to do a lightning introduction of all of them. To my right is Christina Lewis halperin. Next to her, the senior technical manager at aol, who he both manages product and team management. Howard has also been coding since he was 14 years old. And last but not least, nicholas who ask a sophomore at the early Technologies High School in brooklyn, and he has been on the robotics team. I would love to start with christina, can tell you us a little bit about program code
But i think it is something thats underrealized or viewed as sort of not serious. Theres a difference between being not serious and stupid. Its sort of data visualization. Right now were in the very days of that world of news content and people who have been in traditionally news look at that stuff as interesting, sort of a novelty, lets play around with that. But i think were living in an incredibly, incredibly complicated age and being able to break down issues, being able to break things down in a way thats more easily digestible and bringing those experiences right now, theyre very, very expensive and very hard to replicate on mobile devices. I think as that field grows it is going to become a bigger and bigger part of mainstream News Coverage and how we take issues and how we deliver them to people. Theres one thing that i think is, if i may, serious now that i think will be sill ly later whi is sort of niche media sites, things that are focused exclusively on one audience. There
More trust building manner than the idea that somehow another one was spying on a particular community. If i could ask you the balanced question from the other direction, i wonder, do you worry or do you think that the public as 9 11 is becoming less concerned than we should be about terrorist threats. Is this what keeps you up at night or what does keep you up at night northwest mostly in this job sn. In this city the concerns about terrorism are every day in the newspapers. We will have the event on the 15th. The opening of the 9 11 memorial museum. In october we will open a new world trade center. In as much as that is where 9 11 occurred here, its constantly in our memory and constantly in our day to day lives. Throughout the rest of america. There has been a significant drop off. I really had to fight in los angeles the years i was there. 2002 to 2000 noin. To get resources to build up a Counter Terrorism capability. Again even though los angeles had been the subject of several te
Jobs report. Look that the, 2. 20 have not seen that yield at least in a little while. Thats what im going with. A little while. Lets start with the jobs report. Nonfarm payrolls above estimates economy adding 295,000 jobs in month of february. Unemployment rate ticking down to 5. 5 softness though wage growth and labor participation. Both weak average Hourly Earnings were up. 1 from the prior month. The stock futures were looking down now. They had initially jumped on the release, so well see where we end up in terms of early trading here and the response to this jobs number. We have breaking news. Its reported that apple is to join the Dow Jones Industrial average. Long last, perhaps as a result of the stock split, that is huge news clearly, for a lot of people. The dow would have done better than it has done had apple been included. Clearly its a sole performer. Could not have done that before it split 7 for 1, because its a price weighted index and throw it off so much. At 126 that
Screeria nigeria. Hearing. Manhattan institute hosted a discussion about education and the future of the africanamerican community. Today the Brookings Institution hosted a discussion about driverless vehicles. Engineers, legal analysts and state Department Officials participated. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. The u. S. Department of state and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to the discussion on bringing Driverless Cars from markets and introduce you to the the Deputy Assistant secretary of state for science, space and health, doctor Jonathan Margolis. As a member of the service, dr. Margolis oversees policy programs in the areas of International Science technology, International Health and body of defense and space and advanced technology and also conducted courses at the university of maryland, American University and the Foreign Service institute on these dr. Margolis began his career as antiamerican association of incident of science policy fellow and