Actually stopping when it should stop, its taking the curve fairly comfortably and seems to recognize [inaudible] they build a degree of comfort. We learn more about the move to selfdriving cars and professor rajkumar at the lab where his experimental car is kept and worked on. Host so dr. Rajage kumar, whats your job here at Carnegie Mellon university . I am a professor of robotics and engineering. Host howd you get into that . Guest turns out that i did my postgraduation studies, did my masters and ph. D. At Carnegie Mellon, then i joined ibm research for three years or so because i came back and i came back because i like9 cmu and pittsburgh so much. Host what kind of things do you work on . Guest what are called embedded systems, thats the technical term, these are things that embed computers inside them, but basically different devices. For example, your smartphone is basically kind of a sophisticated device with computers inside them, but you really dont [inaudible] take a its, f
Next on the communicators a conversation on selfdriving cars. The candidates were back on the campaign trail following last nights president ial debate. This week the communicators goes to pittsburgh to talk about selfdriving cars. We take a ride in the Autonomous Car that the university is developing. Host we will talk to the communicators of Carnegie Mellon. What is this . Guest we are looking at a cadillac suv from 2011 which is capable of driving itself so its a selfdriving cadillac. Host if you look at the card looks pretty normal from here. Guest that is the car where it that we literally bought new from the cadillac dealership and bo did a bunch of censors and computers and it drives itself. Host do you want to give us a ride . Guest i would be happy to give you a ride. Hop in. Host what is the main reaction you get from people writing in the car with you . Guest the typical reaction is one of anxiety, angst, fear and occasionally even panic attacks. But then they basically watc
Subcommittee hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the subcommittee on health and Human Services and education to discuss the fiscal year 2017 National Institutes of Health Budget request. We are looking forward to hearing the testimony of dr. Whoins and his colleagues will be brought in for questions along the way. I would like to publicly thank dr. Collins and the staff at the nih for hosting me and other subcommittee members for a briefing at a tour at the nih campus a few weeks ago. I hope it will become an annual trek. Withinleft nih appreciation of the exciting work your staff to every day to find ways to save lives. I am proud than last year this congress was able to increase nih funding by 2 billion a night in confident that through these efforts one day we will find cures for diseases like cancer and alzheimers. Fore disappointed is the proposed budget cut to the. Ih this year the proposal to divert one billion dollars of Biomedical Research
Idaho. He has regained con shutsness. Why you should not leave your car running. A teenager facing criminal injuries. After police say he stole and crashed a pickup truck in South Carolina. This happened in north columbia. The 15yearold swiped the truck from in front of a home. The owner left the engine running. The teen lost control and smashed into a fence, a parked s. U. V. And a utility pole. Once he is in the vehicle he lost control of it. 15 years old. Probably had no drivers education. Speed got too high and the vehicle lost control of the vehicle and had a bad accident serious injuries. And police again say leaving a vehicle with the engine on and unattended is never a good idea. You a live look from the reagan president ial library in simi valley, california where a public visitation is underway for nancy reagan. Thousands are saying their goodbyes during the public mourning. She died sunday the the age of 94. Paul cameron has more. Nancy reagans casket was carried in the Rona
And 45 minutes. Unenthk you for that usiastic welcome back. [laughter] i appreciate that. Its monday, so we are only going downhill from here. Our next guest is very exciting to have him join us on the stage. We talked a little bit about ai. Elon is not offend, yuri is. Elon is not a fan. Please welcome dr. John kelly from ibm and our moderator. We are going to do a live demo. What are we about to see, and why do we care . What you are about to see something that no one else has ever seen, other than those deep in my research labs. Many of you remember watson, the Artificial Intelligence machine on the game of jeopardy. At the time he was an open domain question and answer system. Fastforward to today, what youre going to see is watson has adjusted all of wikipedia, and not answers questions, but reasons over that and conform opinions on any subject. So the tech guys can make it turn on for us. The recount. I believe it has in introduction going on first. Watson . Is he going to do wit