. >> ellen ullman writing your first computer program 1978 with a 20 year career at her books are landmark works the author of to a novels and has one the hemingway award. as part of the classic heard a book "life in code" a personal history of technology" is a continuing story while living in the midst during the two decades. based in san francisco. our second conversationalist is the host and managing editor of the tech show about being jilin from her podcast to life's digital quandaries. ended 2014 the alliance for women in media any draw outstanding post. sova let's have a big round of applause. [applause] >>. >> failing girl lived is happening right now. this is my kid is a to sit down and a cafe to chat about your book. you can listen in if you want to because i have to thank my producer because i have my version and said oh my god. we all have to read this book when we talked about it and could not wait to have you on the show and we got a lot of amazing feedback. so now we get to ask you the book is a compilation of essays here and ideas. how would you begin? you are prolific. so t

all right, so it is my very great pleasure to be here with ellen ullman. she is i'm just going to read a little of her bio. she wrote her first computer program in 1978 commit on top a 20 year career as a programmer and software engineer. her essays and books have become essential reading in describing the social, emotional and political effects and personal effects of technology in our lives. she is author of two novels, by blood, and the bug which was a runner-up for the hemingway awarded the first book was in times notable book. the book would talk about today is tritone -- >> no. >> that was her previous memoir. forgive me. what we talk about here is "life in code", a personal history of technology. we go way back. i edited her at "harper's magazine" when i was an editor there. she was writing about technology. i was an editor at one of the oldest magazines in the country, a stored print publication and now we're kind of switched roles. now i am an internet editor for "the intercept," and she's a novelist and distinguished memoirist. so interesting how

then ellen ullman on her book life in code. later massachusetts institute of technology physics professor max tegmark examines the context of artificial intelligence in his book "life 3.0." that's all this week in prime time on c-span 2. coming up tonight on c-span, former sake tears of state madeleine albright and condoleezza rice are joined by u.n. ambassador nikki haley in an event hosted by the george w. bush institute in new york. the panel was part of a forum on freedom and security and includes opening remarks by former first lady laura bush. here's a brief look. >> we have to realize we are dealing with the president of russia who is a kgb about and they know how to do propaganda and they're using information in a way to undermine the system, democracy, what they want to do is undermine the democracies in europe and separate us from europe and i believe they have figured out how to make our life more complicated in every single way through various new methods, tweets and bots and various aspects and we are an open socie

including harvard or faster danielle allen national book award finalist kevin young software engineer ellen ullman and many others. first up is to look at some of the lesser-known stories from world war ii. this is like coverage of the texas book festival on booktv. >> good morning ladies and gentlemen. good morning. my name is jim horne fisher and it's my pleasure to welcome you to the opening session of the 2017 texas book festival. [applause] thank you for coming out in support of our authors and second of his wonderful annual event now in its 22nd year. [applause]he and third of all the books that we discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful texas capitol complex hereom in downtn austin i would ask you to silence your cell phones t. live tv, thank you c-span. after a session both offers -- authors are relocating to the book signing tent down the street to autograph their books. books are for sale at that beautiful independent bookstore. you are supporting not only the author off the festival and a great local store but you are also helping the texas book festival a nonprofit entity pursu