The texas book festival is a Nonprofit Organization and its mission is to support low income schools in texas with author visits and book donations via tweeting rock Stars Program and to fund grants for libraries in texas. So your purchases make ahe huge difference in the lives of texas kids, so please buy early and often. The texas book festival is also running a books drive this weekend to raise money to help rebuild texas libraries affected by hurricane harvey, so they could donate 15 at any register to buy a book for a reading rock star student, the texas book festival and the foundational each match or donation with the book to rebuild a library affected by the hurricane. Someone book purchased puts three books in the library. So please keep that in mind. Allig right, so it is my very great pleasure to be here with ellen ullman. She has, im just going to read a little of her bio, she wrote a First Computer Program in 1978, went on to have a 20 year career as a programmer in softwa
Gentlemen. Welcome to barnes and noble tribeca appeared to not have the pleasure of introducing Heather Cabot and Sam Walravens as they join us to discuss their new book, geek girl rising inside the sisterhood shaping up tech. Heather cabot is a former abc news correspondent. Investor, adjunct professor and a woman at forbes contributed. Sam walravens is an editor, recognize speaker on women, contributed to women at the Huffington Post and disney interactive. Please join me in welcoming Heather Cabot and Sam Walravens. You so much thank you [applause] we really appreciate coming out on a rating i like this. This is a super exciting moment for us because first of all we are in the same city. Which we really are because i live in new york and pam lives in San Francisco. This really is the evening before geek girl rising inside the sisterhood shaping up tech comes out. It is really a special moment for us and to kick things off, to give you a taste of what the book is about, will shave a
Used the tactic in past conflict. He spoke at the think tank new america in washington dc. This is one hour and a half. Now let me introduce fred. Perhaps his most important distinction i would say is that he worked previously as an american fellow but he has done one or two other things in his illustrious career. He is the National Security columnist and author of four books the most recent book which i think is here to tell us and has at least gone over with this new book that some one might not necessarily imagine. Fred is a Pulitzer Prize journalist back in his days at the boston globe and i am very pleased to be able to host him here today. On the format, shortly we will allow fred to give him a minute to describe the book and tell us about it what is in it and then i will take the opportunity to have a conversation, dig into a little more and explore some of the themes and what we might conclude that. Then i will open it up to the floor to give you the opportunity to ask fred som
Of four books, the new book as some people might imagine. A surprise winning journalist with his days at the boston globe. In a while he s will give a few minutes describing the book and whats in it. Some of the themes and what we might contribute from that and then i will open up to the floor give you the opportunity to ask some questions and we will wrap upqu at 1 45. [applause] ing didnt know what the title s going to be for a while but how long the history is it because most people think that it started with the outskirts of shanghai and no but now in prace goes back all the way to the dawn of the internet itself. This was the network where they would talk with one another in their Computer Program an into there was a computer pioneer who was also on the Scientific Advisory board and wrote a paper that has been declassified since but he said heres the problem once you have accessed from multiple locations. He wont be able to keep secrets anymore. When i was doing my research i talk
To involve in the beauty it is that it is not some top down thing quite frankly it is much more if you look at our hackathon but they dont end with just that one week we do but it takes life after that. Were passionate. And we have a Long Distance to cover. But what that can mean for accessibility and mixed reality can mean for accessibility and frontier and make it a Better Company and device for the company and better Everything Company for the area. Prrams joi booktv. Org. Beginning now final program of the day live from the texas book festival author and Software Engineer describing changes in technology. This is booktv on cspan 2. Hi everyone sorry to interrupt. Welcome to the 25th annual texas book festival. Thanks for coming out for authors, the festival and great writing, and literacy. After the session here, ellen will sign books in the tent down the way. The books are for sale here courtesy of book people our great, local independent book seller and i encourage you to support