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Going to talk with. Homas schwartz he directed as an author and editor. Professional awards. Today we are going to take a to the time ofme Herbert Hoover. Tom, i want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . The staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Great. We have lots of questions. I will sign off. I will let you get into your program and i will pop b...

Patrick lets get to it. Today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the Herbert Hoover president ial library. He has been with the Hoover Library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. He will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of Herbert Hoover. Tom, are you there . I want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today ...

Im lucky to be one of the 13 members of the annual Meeting Program committee. We are pleased to have a panel with us today. The committee itself is from around the country, practicing areas from construction, commercial, business, criminal law and our charge is to put together a small selection of the best cuttingedge programs every year. In the fall of 2018 we started with 50 submissions, looked for those that would be the most special, the most exceptional and we were lucky to have a proposal from the science and Technology Section and our moderator, heather rafter, entitled shaping our futu...

Even for my time, the machines i barely heard of going and seeing a what looked like, the physical sizes and look at some of the nomenclature on this which is taking about the people that use them. The industry has made bigger changes in a few decades than printing has over a few centuries. When i was a student at mit, we all shared a good leader that took up half the building that cost tens of millions of dollars. The computer in your cell phone today is 1 million times cheaper and 1000 times more powerful. We are recording the events of history contemporaneously. Rarely in history to have a ...

[inaudible conversations] when i was growing up i read a lot of biographies. Interested of historical figures the computer field was young but already there were those who had done incredible work. There is a wonderful story that has done a great thing and i happen to believe the computer is the greatest invention ever. I liked history even before my machine that i had barely heard of with physical size is to look at the nomenclature of the switches. The industry has made bigger changes in a few decades than printing has over a few centuries. When i was a student at m. I. T. The computer took ...