in chemistry from chemical engineering from caltech.ave to apologise for being female in a tech field. >> those are to die for. i want. >> i wanted to make a statement. >>> you can see more sparkly scientist is shoes and pictures from us in the field if you follow us on twitter and instagram. that's it for this week, amazing stuff. thank you for your stories, and you can see more like it next time an "techknow". >> welcome to the al jazeera news hour live from doha. >> jordan's king returns from the united states to find his nation in mourning and demanding revenge for the brutal killing of a pilot by isil. >> a plane crashes into a river in taiwan, killing 22 people. babies and several others were pulled prom the aircraft. >> chad's army killed 200 boko haram fighters i understand a battle in

in chemistry from chemical engineering from caltech.ave to apologise for being female in a tech field. >> those are to die for. i want. >> i wanted to make a statement. >>> you can see more sparkly scientist is shoes and pictures from us in the field if you follow us on twitter and instagram. that's it for this week, amazing stuff. thank you for your stories, and you can see more like it next time an "techknow". ♪ this is al jazeera. welcome to this news hour. here is what is ahead this hour. a renewed push for peace french and german leaders arrive in ukraine with a new plan to try to stop the fighting. in retaliation for the killing of it's captured pilots. >> the few

in chemistry from chemical engineering from caltech.ave to apologise for being female in a tech field. >> those are to die for. i want. >> i wanted to make a statement. >>> you can see more sparkly scientist is shoes and pictures from us in the field if you follow us on twitter and instagram. that's it for this week, amazing stuff. thank you for your stories, and you can see more like it next time an "techknow". >> >>> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> welcome to the newshour i'm darren jordan from the news center in doha. these are the top stories - iran's nuclear programme and the fight against i.s.i.l. top the agenda on the final day of a summit in munich >>> russia frarnings germany and ukraine gree to meatet on wednesday to talk about the fighting in ukraine. >> nigeria - government delays the election. we get

i went to caltech for my master's degree. and then i started working with this mainframe company called burroughs. my first job was to fix things. emily: you started your career learning how to fix things. i am sensing a theme. you worked your way up. 30 years, you became ceo of sybase. how did you do it? i mean, along the way, what did it take? john: i like fixing things. i think it's both a challenge and an opportunity to learn stuff. because i am kind of the old-school, loyal, stick-with-it type of person. today's young people are a little bit more entitlement oriented. when we were growing up, we never thought about it that way. we thought that you have to create opportunity yourself. i tried to go and learn different areas. my first job is in fixing manufacturing hardware. then i went into writing software. helping run factories. i have done a lot of different things throughout my career. emily: you took sybase from a $362 million company, on the verge of failure, to $5.8 billion. how did you do it? john: first of all, y

tracking usually the contract number with the federal government and so during world war ii from calteching to track that down and i got my call it together, i knew my call numbers and an hour later i had the box labeled here there was nothing in there. i had never done any archival research so i had the box and records from world war ii so i decided to start flipping through them and i came across a memo that was written to the league returned to the league public-health official in the state of massachusetts and it was from a federal researcher at the council and it asked if the drugs could be used against the infections no less than the outcome that was at stake the department was experiencing her in this casualties because of malaria and the department and the scientific community was pitching in to help and would allow them to become a part of this. and he said yes so the boston psychopathic hospital was one of about a half-dozen who allowed researchers the researchers to infect their patients with malaria. >> this is the malaria project. how long did it go on and how many people we

i love seeing the physical documents so i went to caltech, wonderful people at caltech. people who run papers projects but even though there is a copy there i felt i ought to pay up a visit to the shrine and see the paper at hebrew university so i went there so that is where the papers are and something really cool all viewers should do right now is starting about two months ago caltech, princeton and hebrew university all agreed to take the papers and put them on line. people visit hebrew university or caltech but it is so cool because now you concur outsource, not only are all of the papers on line but the english translations so you can read hundreds of letters in 1905 if you are trying to figure out this complicated controversy, what role does his wife play in the mathematics of special relativity, or go read the papers, go on line and see the legacy he wrote to his friend who was helping him in the patent office. from this excitement these days the week and get the papers on line i really salute the papers project for doing that. >> host: towards the end of the book

arati prabhakar, a caltech ph.d. with decades of silicon valley experience. tonight she explores darpa's past and future, and her own personal journey with john markoff of the new york times.

or caltech. and i saw that personally when i was trying to get engineering help for my work on "unsafe at any speed." but i never exaggerated their power because i had a very, very realistic view of the power of people. and i realize that corporations, for all their power, they don't have a single vote, and that what members of congress wanted were votes. and so people became alert and they began to realize that it wasn't always the nut behind the wheel in crashes and injuries on the highway, that the engineering systems of highways and vehicles were very critical in minimizing crashes and, if they occurred, minimizing their injuries, such as a seatbelt, then the public interest would prevail. now, that served me pretty well because i had my feet on the ground and i knew i had a lot of work to do. i had to get the technical community behind what we were doing, i had to get it out to the media, i had to have contacts with senators and representatives who remembered where they came from and had a p

>> guest: caltech with physical papers are at the university, most of them.here are a set even when he's dieting and his deathbed he has nine pages of the creations to unify their relativity. with the quantum theory because they don't quite reconcile. >> host: we are going to show the formula. >> guest: it sort of dribbles off at the end. i love seeing the physical documents documents i went to caltech to go through the papers wonderful people, but even though there was a copy there, i felt i ought to pay a visit to the shrine and actually see the papers at the university so i went there and that's where the papers are and by the way something really cool all of the viewers should do right now starting about two months ago caltech princeton in the hebrew university agreed to take the papers to put them online. several people visit hebrew university or caltech but we can crowd source not only are there all of the papers online but the english translations so you can read the hundreds and hundreds of letters in 1905 if you're trying to figure out what role did

it doesn't take a rocket scientist to make a movie you would be wrong fight i did a post dock in caltechautic for awhile and i worked on explosives and rocket propel atlanta. rocket science technically. >>reporter: he knows about if physics in a destruction city. software won the academy award for if the visual effects in light industrial magic. of course knowing the law of physics know how to bend them. >> you can change a and make it more exciting than the raeld world. >>reporter: they can do that keeping it almost believable. at the time office is lined with souvenir pin many worked on oscar mom knee winner in the own right. turns out it take a track record of these for technology to win award of its own. >> wait until they see the big effect in the movie and look become at try to figure out where it came from. >> where it came from was actually student research petco grant student each take on different problem visual effects and twoshing find a solution. >> some base hit and some home runs and destruction being the home run. >> make the code freely available so more students learn f

with techies out of imperial college in cambridge versus working with techies out of stanford or caltechen: i went to urbana. i do think it is a little bit different, but i actually think the upside is some sectors where london -- tom: what to do they do differently, how do they think differently than we do? ? eileen: it is one accustomed, less creative --