of central florida, and a degree in electrical engineering from the indian institute technology, bombay. he has authored numerous publications and has over 50 u.s. patents. >> thank you for organizing this panel discussion, and thank you, everybody, for graciously being here today. it is my great honor to introduce an incredibly distinguished panel of industrial luminaries. let me start with timothy, simon, and jeanette. tim is a professor at the stanford business school where he teaches a very popular class on this service via in fact, i have taken your class, and you bring in some incredible speakers and make it very entertaining. jim also has a distinguished career in the private sector. he was the president of oracle's on demand service, which by some records was the first online on demand service. cloud computing has a lot of fathers, but tim is often called the grandfather of cloud computing because of that endeavor. but tim is also an investor in a cloud computing companies, and author of some very exciting cloud computing books. thank you for being here. next, we have simon cros

good morning, it was a cold windy and bombay nightclub look at the blue skies this morning.here aboute temperatures only 20 degrees. it will be the coldest day of season out there with someing skies and still snow well out to the west where we have winter storm warnings in western alleghany counties. only 30-35 for us and the bit milder to marwick temperatu >> the windchill advisory spread all of the way south to ft. myers last night. so, southern florida feeling it as well. back to robin and george. >> and up here, too. >> she looks cold. >> she does. >>> we're going to play much music from whitney throughout the morning and we'll have more on the life and death of whitney houston. ♪ i wanna dance with somebody, with somebody who loves me ♪ ♪ i wanna dance with somebody, i wanna feel the heat ♪ ♪ yeah, i wanna dance with somebody, with somebody who loves me ♪ ♪ somebody who, somebody who, somebody who loves me ♪ ♪ somebody who, somebody who, pull me in his arms ♪ ♪ i need a man who takes a chance on love that burns hot enough to last ♪ ♪ a refrigerator has never been hacked

rotting metropolis of dickens felt like the city outside my window if you grow newspaper a city like bombay or deli t feels exactly like dickensian london t has exactly that characteristic of corruption and filth. and then these huge larger-than-life characters that populate it, you know. so i felt dickens a great novelist. >> rose: jill, are you the historian among us. >> well, it's interesting. in the united states dickens is taken as an american writer. maybe every country has a way of adopting dickens as a national difficult son which is curious because he has such a vexd and painful relationship with the united statesment but i think it is great expectation is the 9th most frequently assigned move nell american high schools it happens to also be the hardest novel assigned in american gh schools. >> rose: robe doglafaiurstn london, how do you see him? >> well, keep the child in view is what said in his notes in the old curiosity shop. that is what he did throughout his whole life. he kept the child in you view. there was his own childhood that he could never get rid of and dragged aroun