W. I should say im actually trained as a lawyer originally. Ive been at m. I. T. For more than 20 years. And ive alwaysorked with an Extraordinary Group of computer scientists. My research in all that time has always been in the Computer Science literature. But what im really most interested in is number one, how do help policymakers to make good decisions about Technology Policy and so that involves understanding the details of how cputer systems and Network Systems work. And probably more importantly, im really interested in how to evolve our Computing Technology so its more responsive to Public Policy needs. And ive been able to do that because ive worked with and continue to work with an Extraordinary Group of computer scientists and other researchers at m. I. T. And around the world. Can you give one example of how youve influenced policy . Well, people are probably well aware as an example that theres a big debate about the use of encryption technology. We need encryption to prot
Importantly i am really interested in how to evolve our Computing Technology so that it is more responsive to Public Policy needs. We need encryption to protect our email exchanges, our financial transactions, political speech that goes on. We hope privately online what it needs to. Governments for decades have ofn concerned that the use strong Encryption Technology would thwart the ability of Law Enforcement to conduct electronic surveillance. From a technical perspective, we look at that question and while acknowledging that encryption and pose some barriers for the police, we have shown through Technical Research that if you try to force all encryption palpable or have upkdoors, then you will end harvesting the security of the millions of people around the world to use the internet and Computing Technology, so well this is an ongoing debate, even governments trying to control encryption have acknowledged that they should not do so in a way that introduces systemic weaknesses. At tha
For the drop. The nasdaq 100 extended its 2020 rally. More now with abigail doolittle, our Bloomberg Markets reporter. L ofe been following al the action. What do you make of stocks rallying at the close . Abigail what an exhausting week. A mixed close on the week between different indexes, making it just as exhausting. All of the volatility tells you what we were talking about yesterday. The uncertainty out there. Theres the nasdaq 100 on the week. You can see the huge ups and downs. This tells you investors do not know what is going on. Between this month and last month, not a lot has changed fundamentally for these companies. Just technical movement, that in august. E had at this point, you do have the on thep investors up 2 nasdaq 100. The best week going back to august. Largely driven by apple having its best up week since august 21. From a also up sharply percentage standpoint. Apple, from a waiting standpoint, as you know, between those two companies in early 20 nasdaqsset 100 o
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With former whites will make fun of or lost their land in the ne 2003 years before. Also coming up on the program. Military or civilian all maybe a technocrat millions of still did need to lead the Transitional Team after yet another country transition to a stable civilian group. I. Your welcome to the program we start of in zimbabwe where im citee is growing among blacks they are worried about losing land that was on the catered to them by former president during his law before or during the time thousands of white farmers were forced of the lads in an effort to redress colonial era. Fast forward to earlier this year zimbabwean governments are now as there will be 3500000000. 00 in compensation to local white farmers but some black farmers see the move trucking on a policy that politicians have repeatedly meant was irreversible. Norman cheering has been anxious ever since the government announced it will return land that was taken from former white farmers during the land reform in th