She spoke about her book diversity inc. At barnes noble in new york city. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Welcome are welcome back to barnes noble upper west side, im excited you are here tonight we have an amazing author who will be talking about her new book and i hope youre as excited as i am. For those of you who do not know her is an awardwinning journalist at New York University whos written extensively about diversity in news media in the art world. She is the author of spectacle the axon machine life which when the naacp image award and the black journalist white media which won the National Press word for media criticism, those books are available on the table as well. Pamelas articles are published in major media including the washington post, new york times, the guardian, the nation and chronicle of Higher Education but lets face it she knows what shes talking among them diversity inc. The failed promise of the billion dollar business is an expiration has turned in
Good afternoon everybody. Everybody who was looking at us fruitfully and in line in the security line to going to get in, and everybody who will be watching us sometime soon on a cable network. I am jane harman, president and ceo of the boston center. Today we are prepping a very complicated issue that is, you might be doubling of policymakers, in washington and all over the world. At least three parts of that problem are, the u. S. , china, and the five g supply chain. The Wilson Center has just produced, leaving my prop. This is the prop. A spectacular policy brief by Melissa Griffith who is in the front right here. You will see her ill obit. Which is entitled, there is more to worry about than what way. I say you get the gist of this. She will explain in detail but run, dont walk. During this to get this and read it. Meanwhile, what captures the attention around 5g is the china based weight has led the way in developing the superfast networks which will power some carving car Virtua
Good evening everyone and welcome to books and thank you for supporting your local and Employee Owned bookstore. Cspan is here to make sure your phones are in. [silence] i do want to like you know about a couple of other events coming up as my friend reading from his new novel, on tuesday Stephen Kinzer is going to present the history of the cia. We also have some offsite events tickets are Still Available for mondays conversation between selecting a norcal and talking wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary, author of rebooting ai which argues the computer began human in jeopardy does not signal that we are on the dorsum of fully Autonomous Cars are super intelligent machines. Taking inspiration from the human minds, the book explains that if we need to advance our intelligence to the next loophole, and suggest that if we are wise on the way, we wont need to worry about the future of machine overlord. He says that finally book that tells us what ai is and its not in what ai could become if
Foundation today or speaker Stephen Kinzer from Brown University it also has a new book poison or in chief. The author of nine books to overthrow with that awardwinning correspondence and to tell astonishing stories of the cia medical experiments of the fifties and sixties. With original interviews and survive her testimony in documentary research for the secret of mind control span several countries including nazi scientists leading to experimentation of Government Employees and foreign politicians prisoners, sex workers and anyone else that is deemed threatening. With the most powerful unknown in the 20th century of the government lies and deceptions. Please welcome Stephen Kinzer. [applause] thank you. This is now my tenth book. I have to say that if i devoted a great deal of my career to figure out whats behind the facade of politics and Public Diplomacy that we see maybe they were surprising or shocking to some people but this is the first time i have been shocked im still in shoc
Coming up, tomorrow night ross park will read from his new novel, who are you, thomas bledsoe. Stephen kinzer will present a history of the cia. We also have some other events next weekend tickets are available for mondays conversation and another talk on wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary marcus, author of rebooting ai building Artificial Intelligence we can trust which argues a computer being a human in jeopardy does not signal we are on the doorstep of solely Autonomous Cars or super intelligent machines. Taking inspiration from the human mind, the book explains if we need to advance Artificial Intelligence to the next level, suggests that if we are wise along the way we will not need to worry about a future of machine overlords. Finally a book that tells us what ai is, what it is not and what a i could become if only we are ambitious and creative enough. A deeply informed account. Gary marcus is founder and ceo of robert robots. A ing metric intelligence and published in journals i