[inaudible conversations] tonight we are happy to have as our guest Brad Schwartz here to discuss his new book broadcast hysteria orson welles war of the worlds and the art of fake news published by for r. Strauss and giroux. Sure to attend the university of michigan in ann arbor where he earned his b. A. In history and screen arts and culture in 2012. He cowrote an episode of the awardwinning pbs series American Experience on the war of the worlds broadcast. Broadcast hysteria is getting wonderful reviews. Publishers weekly calls broadcast hysteria and impeccable account of the most famous radio show in history, a fascinating biography of orson welles and a vital lesson about the responsibility about the. Please welcome the Brad Schwartz schwartz. [applause] thank you for that wonderful introduction. Thank you to quail ridge for having me and cspan for being here and especially to all of you for coming. Im blown away by the turnout. Before it began i need to particularly thank someone
Ron so there are children alive today that would not have been born if not for machinery so maybe it is not so monday and after all. Another example. The smart phone in your pocket right now is chock full of dirty algorithms using a Machine Learning to address to read you are saying to correct your spelling errors, predicted he will do and make suggestions using gps and you can compare that with your calendar to see if you will be late for meetings. All this is happening today with the help of Machine Learning and as we progress cell phones and what Companies Develop will learn more and more and as a result with all of this economic value is no wonder that Tech Companies are all over it they are investing heavily in Machine Learning so google recently paid half a billion dollars for a company that has no customers and no product pitches had better learn the of the rape of rhythms that led to predict what people will click on. That alone is worth half a billion dollars every year as ano
You going to kick off this weekend with the book the master algorithm where he takes a look at the future. This is booktv. On tonights guest. For the Computer Science and engineering is a fellow Association Association from the advanced Artificial Intelligence board of the learning journal and cofounder of the learning society and the winner of the intervention award. Hes the highest author on Machine Learning data mining and other areas. Tonight joining us for the purchased new book the master algorithm how it will remake our world. Please join me in welcoming. [applause] thank you all for coming. I wanted to you about the case that is happening today. The intranet, the personal computer and in fact it goes to all of them and touches every part of society and affects everybodys life and touches your life right now in ways you are probably not aware of. Fortunes are being made because of it and there are also jobs in many cases unnecessarily. Children have been born because of this cha
Editorial board of the Machine Learning journal the cofounder of international Machine Learning society and the winner of the ctk dd innovation award. He is the author of over 200 technical publications on Machine Learning data and datamining and other areas. Tonight he joins us and what ive learned as a launch event for his new book the master algorithm how the quest for the alternate learning machine will remake our world. Please join me in welcoming to town hall dr. Pedro domingos. [applause] thank you all for braving the traffic to be here. I will try to make this special preview part i want to tie about the change happening in the world today. This change is as big as the internet, the personal computer. It touches every part of society. It affects everybodys life. It touches your life right now in ways that you are probably unaware of. Fortunes are being made because of it and fortunately jobs in many cases are necessarily being lost because of it. Children have been born because
Is saying that the president is using technology . Matt there are a couple of thoughts. What hes described is how residents figure out the bully one of the things that were trying to figure out many of you are familiar with mybarack obama. Com. I think that theres a promise in that idea and i think you saw it in the Dean Campaign using meetup and youve seen these different moments of people trying to use the internet. Theres a product there that hasnt been realized. And what i think it is is the opportunity for more bottomup selforganization that can plug into something formal and somewhat centralized and topdown. You kind of have to have both of those. And for a long time now, our media, mass media has really been very centralized and has tapped into a model in which candidates and nonprofits raise a bunch of money and do a lot of direct markets to mobilize people who really dont want to hear the message and try to nudge them to give that one dollar because of guilt or whatever. And a