Among those well hear from, former health and Human Services secretaries from the bush and obama administrations, former Ohio Governor john kasich, and a number of medical journalists. I hope everybody enjoyed lunch. Now for the afternoon program. When shaping public policy, its absolutely important to understand the concerns, the needs, and the priorities of the public. I think particularly in d. C. , too often the discussion focuses on the policy rather than the problem that were trying to solve. And thats why weve partnered with gallup, the premier Public Opinion polling firm. The west Gallup Survey key findings from the west health gap line gallup, which were releasing today. [ applause ] thank you very much. Everybody enjoy the morning . I did, yeah. Really interesting information. Were going to continue on with that. I was so pumped to hear that i was the first person on after lunch. I was going to ask you for a favor and try and avoid hes, heavy eyelid syndrome. My job is to kee
Artificial intelligence, Obama Administration, report in october and december 2016 on a strategy for this. I havent really seen a followup on that. The followup i did see was in the summer, spring of 2017 when china issued similar strategy. Walter will talk about research and development, fundamental research and development by the United States and support of research institution, Research Universities. We a few decades ago r d and we are now number 12. A lot has been picked up by the private sector but its not the same thing i dont think Going Forward. Do i think that we need to bring science back to the center of our thinking and our policy making and we just had director of policy for two years to get something in the job. One of the great regrets i have in 10 years as National Security adviser, inside nse running process because every as you know, probably had technological aspects to increasingly and bandwidth issues and confident issues that we really need to address, i think in
Is change. Intelligence, Machine Learning, biotechnology. That was the subject that 65 of in our relatively nonpartisan group. We are a collective of people who are active journalists, business leaders, academic leaders. Ago, a founded 35 years friend who exceeded right before you, by bill perry and by our great friend, someone [inaudible] years, we believe that republicans and democrats can come together to talk and plan the most plan for important issues in the United States. The book that all of you have, or hopefully shall have, silicon leaders from valley, the government, from business. We investigate how these new challenges dominate in need to be dealt with by a more productive conversation between the pentagon and americas tech community. We also examined two additional strategy tonas dominate Artificial Intelligence in the next decade and of course, the lagging American Government funding for basic Science Research to our universities. The breakdown of that innovation that Wal
The nasdaq was up by 1. 75 . Guys, this is when people were looking at the month of august, okay, not a great month, theres been a pullback, but watch whats been happening. You have back above 50day moving averages, and if you thought you were going to get a pullback, thats changed. Pretty true. Its more than half of the total peek to trough decline. You mentioned the 50day moving average. Everything lower about that yield. The reflex move was softer than expected. Latest data from the j. O. L. T. S. Report. We can have this very, very beneficial cooling of the market. Yields come down, back into their old range. Now, i do think again it makes sense, but the whole bad news is good news only gets you so far, and i dont think it was bad news. Est enwants the pendulum to stop halfway from a super tight market to a goldilocks moment. Talk about big gainers, nvidia closed after the chipmaker announced a partnership with google that could expand ai. The nasdaq again up by about 1. 75 . You c
for this exciting culinary session the next step in health reform, 2017 conference. this year partnership with the american society of law, medicine and ethics with support for mark cosponsors we expanded the event to three day conference attracting speakers and attendees from multiple disciplines, the academy and practice. apparently, this conference is timed with the launch of our new health law and policy program. for faculty and students will be partnering with you on important work in the areas of healthcare law and economics. thank you, and join me in welcoming american university provost who will introduce our american university president, sylvia matthews. [applause] thank you dean and can morning to all of you. it s my pleasure to introduce the next keynote speaker, sylvia matthews burwell, the 15th president of the university. president burwell is a visionary leader with extensive experience in public and private sectors. for careers a testament to a lifelong comm