Good evening, everyone. My name is betsy atkins. On behalf of harvard bookstore, id like to welcome you to cambridge public library. Im extremely pleased to have Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt with us. Please check out more Upcoming Library programming and be sure to join our email list to learn about the event series, and please visit us online at harvard. Com events. Id also like to thank tonights cosponsor, mass humanities supporting programs that use history, literature, philosophy and the other disciplines to enhance and improve civic life for the people of massachusetts. Learn more at masscommunities. Org. Tonights talk will conclude with time for your questions. Please note that this talk is being recorded by cspan, and during q a your questions will be recorded. To ask a question, please come to the mic at the front of this aisle to my left. Following q a, there will be a book signing here on stage. The signing line will form down the aisle to my right, the end of which may
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
In his book the innovators. During this event held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View california mr. Isakson discusses his book with Computer History Museum president and ceo john hollar and then takes audience questions. And now for tonights program program, the history of computing is the ongoing story of how one of the greatest periods of creativity in Human History has been unleashed. It is he even sorts out the real story between the internet. Walter will take us on a journey starting with the distant figures but important figures of john babich. Please join me in welcoming walter isaacson. C thank you john. Its great to be back and this is an amazingly wonderful place. Its such an honor to be back here and you can even reveal my inner geek if you need to. C i think you are about to do that yourself. I grew up soldering ham radios. My dad was an electrical engineer and i love Circuit Boards so its good to get back and write about them. Is that how you originally got i
Been mentioned but i would like to make sure that you keep a close eye on this because when we talk about manufacturing, the ability to be competitive and all that was ever said to me by our manufacturers were if it was a fairfield well do fine. But if the game is rigged, i dont know how we win that kind of game. And ive always had the same feeling that and my Ranking Member Sherrod Brown right next to me in ohio has dealt with this with his manufacturers as well if currency is fairly valued and we are not successful, our manufacturers, if i cant win a fair game that is on me. But if it is being manipulated against my company, it makes it awful tough to keep the workers working and to keep our economy growing, so i would just ask that you keep that in mind as you move forward. And thank you so much for your service. Thank you. Madam chair. You mentioned that the current unemployment is listed at 5. 7 . However, one alternative measure that seems to fully capture a better sense of Labor
Around concord. Near that in fairfield. You see it at sfo, 24 miles an hour. So the forecast today as you head on out, look for coastal clouds. And temperatures in the 50s. By noontime 60s and 70s around the bay. We will be in the mid80s inland. Low to mid70s around the bay. 60s and gusty winds along the shoreline. We are still looking at cooler air for parts of the beginning of the work week. We will have that for you and a look at the first day of summer coming up. All right, lisa. Looks good. See you soon. We have breaking news out of San Francisco where an offramp near westbound 80 has reopened following a fatal accident involving an s. U. V. It happened just after 1 00 this morning at the fifth street offramp near harrison street. The ramp was closed for about two hours while crews investigated. No word on how many people were involved in the crash or what caused the accident. A father is relieved this morning after his daughter is found safe nearly 24 hours after disappearing in