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And what does a company with almost 700 planes and tens of thousands of trucks worry about . Fuel. Ill sit down with fedex ceo fred smith to talk about the future of energy. That crucial subject, the future of energy, is also at the heart of our latest gps special, which airs tonight at 8 00 and 11 00 p. M. Eastern and pacific. In global lessons the roadmap for powering america will take you around the world to bring you ideas about energy back home. But first heres my take. The second president...

And thanks to the town hall for putting on this amazing series. Its so terrific that there is Science Education going on especially in a time when funding is being cut to sciences at the National Level so we need to keep pushing for as much Science Education as possible. So i just finished writing an optimistic look about the apocalypse and it didnt start out that way at all. I really did not realize that this book was going to have a happy ending and it actually started because i have been real...

Immensely powerful idea. Richard dawkins has written about ideas. What was it like to write about yourself . Guest quite difficult. I was persuaded by publishers and had to overcome embarrassment. I like to think its humorous. Finally i have to say i enjoyed writing it. Did you enjoy doing it . Why . Guest reliving memories is not exactly a systematic history of my life. Its a patchwork of memories. Its a working title i had in mind but i started writing it. But i hope the man random memories ar...

Seen and much of what ambassador samad has shared with us as far. A great enthusiasm leading up to the vote and on election day despite significant threats, personal threats and amidst great personal risk that so many afghans came out and voted in those elections on saturday is really inspiring and we certainly observed that enthusiasm into places that our observers were able to get out and observed on election day. The turnout that is being reported at this point is somewhere around 7 million v...

Documentary filmmaker james barrat talks about runaway Artificial Intelligence. Mr. Barrat argues we are headed into the future in which machines will be able able to outthink humans and may eventually view is in the same way we view lower life forms today. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] hi. I am james barrat and i want to thank mary and jenice for inviting me here and i would like to thank cspan for being here. I think this is such a great bookstore. It is good to remember when books real...

Available also on netflix and i became interested in Artificial Intelligence and that is what i am here to talk to you about tonight. Artificial intelligence, what it is, and what i think as far as a lot of researchers and makers think that is being developed in the wrong way. And i really believe this conversation is the most important conversation of our time. And so lets begin with this. What is Artificial Intelligence . Well, it is the development of Computer Systems able to perform tasks th...

Hello, i am James Barrett and i would like to thank everyone for inviting me here and i think this is such a great story. We remember when books were only sold in bookstores. So to me a kind of captures the wild mysterious bookstores that i knew when i was a kid. [laughter] that such a rich experience and that is what this one is. And obviously it is such a great Meeting Place for people. So i want to thank people for inviting me today. I have written a book about Artificial Intelligence and my ...

Committee is saying, dont you know theres an election and i say i have cleared these names in the white house and anyway, all my guys did just terrific. They were confident, they were competent, even some of the people who had objected called and said we love you guys and jim was the secretary and he later became our ambassador of japan and he went over, he was president of northwestern university. Sophia had ruled all of these people out because they were registered democrats, i would not have ...

And many other amendments that came from folks would never had an amendment brought up and discussed, those amendments were discussed in the farm bill. I would say that probably of the 73 that were considered, there were 300 offered and people would get up, they would have their say. They discuss the amendment. They knew probably it would not pass, and they would withdraw it. But they at least had the opportunity to represent their states and their constituents, and we had that opportunity. This...

Terminal and recycled the materials to build it. We excavated down to street level and we kept the traffic moving and a breaking system and we relocated all utilities and reinstalled the piping system to use the natural earths temperature. We put down steel. So far in the process we are removing about 6,000 cubic yards of mud and clay. In fact, today as a tone of our appreciation to our speakers we are going to give old clay deposited from the last ice age about a hundred thousand years ago. The...