but he took he started it all by drawing air into his basement lab at caltech, reducing it to acid, running further, experiment and duplicating his effort public izing it. and it blew minds. i mean, he was in his own nonpartisan way, challenging the might of the automobile companies that were the darlings of america. gm, ford, chrysler, they were the emblems of american greatnesacross the world. and he was basically saying, you know what? your cars are killing machines. the problem was, you know, just because you just because you know, the answer doesn't mean you can pack the genie back in the bottle. and it was impossible because even as we were learning, cars were poison in machines, we were building new freeways further and further out from the city er car. you know, automobile showrooms were springing up. gas staons were were just sprouting like weeds. and now, you know, they're not only selling gas, but they're given away free, free stuff, you know? so a culture freeway culture was building around los angeles, which had been auto centric building, very wide boulevards, lowering traffic

he gave a speech at caltech after the cambodian invasion. that speech was very critical of president nixon, and my advice her was removed from a list of nominees to be a high level official at the national science foundation. the good news for me is that my advisor continued at caltech and subsequently there were a series challenges to many organizations, including all academic institutes missions across the country. today, we live in a time of controversy from rulings of the supreme court to divisions about the role of politics in. higher education policy. one of the strengths, i believe, of american higher education is a degree of autonomy. and i believe that we need to work to sustain higher education in america as the world's best. so. so those are a few person reflections about my time in my early twenties. proceeding through graduates school and then joining the massachusetts institute of technology as a junior professor. when i arrived at mit as an assistant professor in 1972, i heard about the occupation of the mit president's office

the impact will be felt at stanford and caltech and other universities that have struggled. >> reporter: is the president of santa clara university issued a statement, expressing disappointment, they said our diversity including race is a part of our human identity through today's decisions therefore plays a substantial burden on our freedom to recognize aspiring and current students as whole human beings. and usf professor who specializes in immigration law and asian american studies wrote this is a sad step backwards in the long road toward racial equality, the decision fails to recognize the institutionalized racism against many minorities in the united states. as recently as 2016, the supreme court upheld using race as a factor in college admissions programs that was before the court's makeup moved sharply to the right with the conservative majority. >> and to add some context to this, joining me is the university diversity officer from cal state east bay. thank you for joining us. as we mentioned, in california, the state university ended affirmative action back in 1996. what has a

recientemente hemos formado una alianza con otros ocho colegios privados también en el estado, inclusive caltech harvey mudo occidental, pomona college, stanford, usc, scripps, muy conocidos, y bueno, esta alianza es simplemente, queremos traerle a las comunidades la invitación, el anuncio que nosotros también somos opciones, muchas veces hay una percepción que las universidades privadas son muy caras, que no tienen, que no son igual de accesibles, ¿verdad?, eh, y bueno, nosotros queremos venir a las comunidades, especialmente esos estudiantes en primera generación, que quizás no tienen los padres que han ido a la universidad, que conozcan primeramente las opciones que tenemos, los programas que ofrecemos, las carreras que ofrecemos, y que los consideren, porque estamos en un estado en donde tenemos un sistema educativo muy grande, muy fuerte, muy importante, el uc cal state, y también son muy buenas opciones, pero aparte, en este estado hay más de 80 universidades privadas que también pueden ofrecer oportunidad, inclusive becas para hacer el costo de la universidad posible, entonces esperamos q

first was a conference organized by caltech and university of chicago around the use of ei or sciencethe participants were from the major research universities and others around the country. in that room the participants were palpably excited about the incredible benefits to society that would come from artificial intelligence. more recently i was at a conference around the topic of ai. those are the guys that hope to make money off of this. in that room and requesting the participants were palpably concerned about the future of what we were going into. the problem is they are both right. navigating this is one of the challenges and opportunities facing the united states. a pivotal moment you've seen the act, you've heard about the senator's engagement with quantum computing's with the senator's here to talk about today is the artificial intelligence that may be one of the greatest challenges we face in decades to come. so senator thank you for doing this. [applause] it's great to be here. it's a pleasure to be in a room of so many leaders from the world of innovation and tech busines

hollywood budget is larger than the caltech budget, let's put it that way. so they were able to devote quite a bit of computational resources and thinking into making the most accurate image a black hole that they could imagine. and kip collaborate with people from the special effects shop and they wrote paper that appeared in the journal of classical and quantum gravity on visualizing the gravitational by a spinning black hole and crucial to making this is the idea that time and space twist into each other. the black hole is spinning like that. so these things turn out to matter and will matter more whenever we visit a spinning black hole. okay, one final piece of math that we need. we said that what we have is space or space time with arbitrary amounts of curvature. sure, we can capture. the geometry of that manifold, as we call it, or space, in terms of the metric tensor, but the metric tensor also depends on the coordinate system we use, right, polar coordinates, cartesian coordinates, whatever. what we want is not that is just telling us what coordinate

the first was the conference organized caltech and university ofchicago around the use of ai or science . the participants were from major research universities and others around the country . in that room the participants were powerfully excited about the benefits to society that would come from artificial intelligence more recently i was at a conference around the topic of ai.i. those are the guys who who to make money off of this. in that room you were seeing the participants were powerfully concerned about the future of what we were going into. the problem is navigating this is one of the great challenges and opportunities facing the united states. you've seen the chips act. you've now heard about the senators engagement with quantum computing . what the center is to talk about today is the growth of artificial intelligence which may be one of the greatest challenges we face for decades to come so center, and you very much for doing this . [applause] >> thank you tom for that kind introduction and thank you csis. it's great to be here and pleasure to be in a room with so many leader

. >> the schools i applied to were mit, caltech, princeton, harvard and carnegie mellon.it is tougher to get in, especially as an asian american. i had a 20% chance of getting admission into harvard than a 95% chance as an african american. >> affirmative action is still the law of the land. the problem is we have a world of equity where there is no real equality what he was saying as he has a 20% chance of getting into harvard with the same numbers, you have a 95% chance of getting in. the scales are so tipped against the qualified people in terms of what are we doing? we are trying to make up for what happened in the past. get over it and start over ag again. >> if you did it by scores, only scores, which you have a majority of asian undergraduate people in harvard? >> harvard wrote down on a piece of paper if they were to do that, 43% of their student body would be asian americans. the supreme court is going to do away with this. unfortunately for students, schools are going to find a way to get around it. they will call it something else. the students are going to set

the top-tier schools i applied to were mit, caltech, princeton, harvard, carnegie mellon and uc berkeleycted by all of them. he says he was warned. >> talking with my friends and guidance counselors, they told me it's tougher to get in as an asian american, i took it as gospel. lauren: you can watch the diversity verdict now on fox nation. the supreme court will decide two affirmative action cases. how the court rules could overturn a previous decision that said race could be used as a factor. dave: we will see what happens. president biden looking to combat book banning. you wants to protect lgbt q plus americans. lauren: he's pointing an anti-book of mankind lord nader to work with school districts to counter parents who don't want sexually explicit material in schools. the white house says they want to protect lgbt q plus, there's been a big increase in book banning, 1500 books have been banned. dave: still ahead, steve hilton, jonathan honecker, sandra smith, and ken goldman all here on the 11:00 hour of "varney and company" next. ♪ sam who make...? ...everyday products... ...designe

these very brilliant scientist who was one of the founders, i think, of the jet propulsion lab that caltech has. and during the mccarthy era, you know, where he was accused of being a spy, he he was basically so turned off that he went back to china, which i think some intelligence officers, the asset was the greatest mistake of the time. but what chen did was take his genius and brilliance and use it to apply to the issue of cybernetics and the idea of being able to use technology to for to harness for desirable behavior in society. and what we saw some of that happening was always proceed proteges in a very early stage was was the one child policy where the idea was to control and create technology and surveillance, to control people's desire to have children and families, and that has obviously gone a long way. but of course, at that time, 30 years ago, there was simply not that level of ability to control to the to where it is now. so can you talk a little bit about how chen and this whole concept of cybernetics and social control and technology has blossomed forth, which is what you ta