Love with eniac. He knew what it could do. Then it was this very wonderful thing where he taught clarie how to program it. There was a debate of who so what first, but somebody saw that they were designing the institute machine and writing code for it. But the machine was not ready. Someone said, we can rewire eniac and run programs on the eniac. They spent six weeks rewiring it and getting it to run. That was the origin of modern software. And that was such a fruitful time. So it was a mixture of their marriage, the coding. And she had no training whatsoever . She did have training. During the war, when johnny went off to england to do what, we do not know . She was left behind in princeton. Women could apply and get a wartime job. Hers was at the center for Population Research at princeton university. Her job was modeling populations of people. What would happen if you created a new state in the middle east or something . They model growth of population. That is what you needed to so
Tourism group says profit targets are on track and take steps to simplify its business. The shipping giant trades lower as the volatile crude price weighs on the business. This despite posting a First Quarter profit beat. Welcome to the show. Im seema mody. Italys gdp number just growth beating expectations of 0. 2 . This following the pick up in frances growth. Better than expected gdp numbers out of italy up quarter over quarter. Seems like aided by oil prices and weaker currency helping italys growth. The euro very close to session highs. 112 against the u. S. Dollar. Lets recap the other data. France surprised the market by posting its best quarterly performance. Gdp at 0. 6 ahead of expectations. Germany missed forecasts printing growth of just 0. 3 trade. That was a big drop on growth in the First Quarter according to the data office. Now the external numbers for germany have always been a little weak. Capital orders were a little bit disappointing but consumption has been quite
The issue is important and there is a general agreement on the solution around high skilled immigration. The problem is is the politics and the economy and jobs have been prumped by the politics of immigration. I think there are four paths. One could be the pass the senate not be taken up in the senate. There is a lottery that would flult raising the overall level of immigration. If there was an agreement to include that that bill could be passed. A second option which is what the president has ind indicated he favors is to link high skilled immigration with the dream act. So it is a broader solution around immigration. The third would be to say this deals with the 50,000, this deals with a million five. The third would be deal with 11 million which clearly we have to as a nation deal with and there is a desire now more than there might have been a month ago to do. That and ive heard a number of people talk about the need to take up the issue and called for a comprehensive solution. So
Once again, it is ukraine. The ceasefire declared last night failed to hold. The independent square was covered in fire and smoke. The list of casualties is growing long and the International Call for action is growing louder. We continue to stress to the ukrainian government, they have the primary responsibility to prevent the kind of terrible violence we have seen. To withdraw riot police, to work with the opposition. It is the regime that created this, by undertaking positions that went against the nature and aspirations of ukraine. For that reason, we hope the government responsible. It will be necessary to discuss specific sanctions to show it is important the political process start again. We cannot accept what is happening. Those who committed violent deeds, those getting ready to commit more, must know there will be sanctions. There will be a meeting of Foreign Affairs in europe and the question of sanctions and their degree and the targeting, this question will be asked. Those
Virgin galactic in the private space race. Satellitear about new being watched launched into space. It is the three of the congress in barcelona. It is a crucial time for the world cost biggest Computer Services company. Ibm headcount dropped for the first time in a decade. Keynote, she spoke about three trends that are brees shaping the tech industry. David kirkpatrick asked what industries are adopting best to these trends . These three chefs, they are not three isolated shifts. Data, cloud, engagement, they are all one. Industry, but not every industry. Modeltion to the business is one of the most Significant Competitive advancements. It depends what side of the fence you are on. View is that it is particularly because i think data functions on a certain platform, you see some of the most aggressive industry here. You see with the carriers, telco, wireless riders. You see it with banking. How many clients are starting to put in place chief data officers who report to the ceo. I see