Editorial board of the Machine Learning journal the cofounder of international Machine Learning society and the winner of the ctk dd innovation award. He is the author of over 200 technical publications on Machine Learning data and datamining and other areas. Tonight he joins us and what ive learned as a launch event for his new book the master algorithm how the quest for the alternate learning machine will remake our world. Please join me in welcoming to town hall dr. Pedro domingos. [applause] thank you all for braving the traffic to be here. I will try to make this special preview part i want to tie about the change happening in the world today. This change is as big as the internet, the personal computer. It touches every part of society. It affects everybodys life. It touches your life right now in ways that you are probably unaware of. Fortunes are being made because of it and fortunately jobs in many cases are necessarily being lost because of it. Children have been born because