undergrad and graduated she started her company while in grad school at carnegie mellon.was a gaming platform that build tools to help build up their games so she lost the company that she sold and went to work for google venture. that was the first time she realized what the boys club was a. she realized there are fewer women coming to pick further investment. this is really bad. she went back to the company that is a super cool virtual reality environment where you can walk around a room and basically what you do is take for pictures of your living room from four corners of the room and they make a three d. model of your room that looks like your room and they give you different design concepts. you can actually do this walking around as an avatar on your computer so that super, duper cool, and it's raised i think $11 million now but she started this project and said there are so many interesting founders and investors along the way i'm going to invite everybody to park city utah to have a festival called the thin air innovation festival that takes place in april so she

they hired carnegie mellon researchers. created a scandal in his legal fight with waymo. uber has been investing since 2015. lyft is starting in earnest to do it itself. bill girly thinks it is decades out. what is the significance of this? david: i think it is dependent on what kind of geography you are talking about. in the urban centers where they get most of the business, it is quite possible self-driving cars could come much sooner than they would for all of us to replace our cars with the self-driving car we take wherever we go. i think it is absolutely prudent for all of these companies to take this seriously. and there may be an interesting period where we will stop something like a driver but the car will be safer because it has more software steering it. i have a little trouble understanding exactly what lyft is doing here. eric wrote an interesting piece. but there seems to be disagreement among some of the people covering it whether this is making lyft more like uber which has taken a we want to do it ourselves

was an entrepreneur, went to carnegie-mellon and she started already company, 3d gaming platform that built tools to help other gamers build games. she sold the toy auto desk in 2012 -- very young. >> a rock star. >> incredible and she went to work for goggle ventures and was the first time -- she realize it what a boys club silicon valley was, she was so heads done building her product, getting money, getting financing, and launching her company, so when she got to google ventures she realize it there's few women coming to pitch their companies for investment. what's going on sneer this is bad -- going on here? the is bad. she started a second company and working on which is a super cool 3d virtual reality environment where you can actually walk around a room and it's for home designs. you can take basically take four pictures of your favorite living room, from four corners of the room, send into it their company, they make a 3d model of your room that actually looks like your room and give you different design concepts. no longer do you have to pull samples brick them back, put the

she graduated and started her company while she was in grad school at carnegie mellon.called mild pocket and it was a 3-d gaming platform and it was so to help other gamers to build their games. she launched this company i believe in 7-11 and she went to work for google ventures. that was the first time she relies what a boys club silicon valley was. she is building a product getting money and getting financing and launching her company. she realized all these women who are coming to pitch their companies, what's going on here? this is really bad. she went back as many entrepreneurs do and she's working on a super cool 3-d virtual reality environment where you can walk around around and it's for home design. basically what you do is you take for pictures in your living room, take for pictures of four corners of the room they make a 3-d model of your room that actually looks like your room and give you different design concepts. no longer do you have to pull the samples and bring them back don't like its ship it back. walking around like an avatar on your computer so it'

tests in the bottom half, but at training camp in pittsburgh, on the campus of carnegie mellon, po has mathletes build strong bonds out of the classroom as well as in. 17-year-old zach croman from san francisco is making his debut on the u.s. team. >> the team does a great job of supporting each other, in the sense that no one is pressured to get a certain score or they feel like they've failed. we all just want to do our best. >> reporter: po was straightforward about his low-stress approach when he interviewed for the top job. >> i said is that if you put me in as coach we're going to do much worse than we ever did. >> reporter: but he was wrong. the drought has ended. the u.s. has placed first each of the last two years. >> if you constantly challenge and enjoy the love of doing better today than you did yesterday, you're on an onward march toward success. >> reporter: an important lesson for world class math students and the rest of us as well. >> it's been a great pleasure to work with you guys. >> reporter: jim axelrod, cbs news, pittsburgh. [applause] >> ninan: that's the "cbs w

originally blotted by their wealth and on this day and age like we hear about rockefeller's the carnegie mellon's they write it institutions of libraries or our opera houses and things in ok bill gates as a bill gates foundation presumably he's going around doing some medical miracles and whatnot yes good example is this still a part of the ethos of america as the ruling elite i think for some it is i mean look at the ford family and what they've done the detroit you know for detroit they've been very anti-gun as i'd like to try to fire know but they've been extremely generous in terms of supporting the community over the years and other philanthropic causes i think it's important you know when you do well you have to get back to it to try to turn around starring in other words or come. like china i think is i want to help me and others i mean there are some but detroit is where it is because gratian from europe the kids on the st lawrence seaway that's that's why it's there that is yeah that's why they built cars there i mean today if they were coming from iran no more american hockey players. w

these includes our friends at georgetown university, texas a&m, carnegie mellon, cornell, virginia commonwealth, northwestern university, and uc london. now come in terms of transparency which we are very big on the world affairs council, we should inform you that we have had a long and valued relationship with the state of qatar during the 38 years since our founding. the cutter foundation was the recipient of our 2014 global education word that was accepted on behalf of the foundation. the ambassadors have participated in our embassy series and investor programs and supported our annual world fairs honors level education gala. the population is question, anybody know? you just googled it, ruled out of bounds. it is 2 million, 258, 283 people. 11.6% are native qatari's and 88.4% are non- qatari's. bilateral relations between the united states and qatar are strong. qatar host u.s. military central command, we have 11000 americans deployed in qatar, and actively supports nato operations against the so-called islamic state. the united states serves as qatar's largest foreign investor. in the larg

this includes our friends at georgetown university, texas a&m, carnegie mellon, cornell, virginia commonwealth, northwestern university, and ucl london. in terms of transparency, which we are very big on at the council, we should inform you that we have had a long and valued relationship with the state of cutter during the 38 years since our founding. the cutter foundation, both the recipient of our 2014 global education award that was accepted on behalf of the foundation. havembassadors of cutter participated in our embassy programs, ambassador and support it our annual global education gala. , question,ulation is anybody know? you just googled it, out of bounds. is to million people. at of that number, 11% are native qataris. 88.4% are non-qataris. bilateral relations between the united states should -- united states and cutter are strong. u.s. military central command. they have 11,000 americans cutter. in they actively deployed operations against the islamic state. serves as states qatar's largest foreign investor. these include aircraft, machinery, vehicles, medical instruments and agricu

at carnegie mellon gave an instructive distinction between monetary and fiscal policy. he said monetary policy does not favor one sector of the economy over another and monetary policy does not involve taking credit risk onto the fed's balance sheet. by contrast, credit policy works by interposing the government's credit worthiness, the power to -- fed credity policy involves lending to private institutions or acquiring on treasury securities with freshly created bank reserves or proceeds from the sale of treasuries from the fed portfolio. my question is, do you agree with this distinction? if you don't agree with this distinction, do you feel credit policy is commensurate with your congressional mandate? chair yellen: the fomc in its principles for normalization of monetary policy has clearly indicated that it intends to return over time to a primarily treasury only portfolio. that is in order to not influence the allocation of credit in the economy. that said, our purchases of mortgage backed securities place after a financial crisis that took place every financial cr

2011 following faculty appointments in the english department of the university of wisconsin and carnegie mellon university. like is the director and leads by example. michael thinks across the boundaries to help us better understand what is possible from independent research library and the 21st century. mike has a stellar scholarly career and i will highlight a few. he has published five books ranging from culture of accidents to "landscapes of the passing strang:reflections from shakespeare". he collaborates with jonathan hope, mike fleischer and others on visualizing english print, for instance. to give a glimpse of his current work i can mention two recent articles,-- one co-authored-- [inaudible] >> it appeared in the 2016 volume. the second is entitled the digital humanity and the divisive kingdom of knowledge, published in a special issue of literary history. abstract he asks, does the digital message in humanities represent encouragement across bauder-- battlelines-- [inaudible] >> will humanities lose something precious with this train of knowledge that sits on the far side. what is th

>> i happened to have a guest on my program saturday, an academic name dav lemon from carneg carnegie-mellonho documented on 61 occasions in 80 different nations from the post world war ii era through 2000, we have been involved, not in computer hacking, but in trying to determine the outcome of elections. is there a moral equivalent between us supporting a pro democracy force when the opposition was communism, that's subject to debate. i think it's a fair point that we don't entirely have clean hands. >> it also doesn't mean you want to invite other countries into your election. this is not a one-sided thing. >> of course not. >> michael, a new poll out moments ago from abc news has new numbers that i think you'll find particularly interesting. 67% of those polled in the abc news poll, 67% say they disapprove of the president's use of twitter. 65% of those polled when asked to associate it with a certain word believe -- well, 68% say inappropriate, 65% say it's insulting. 52% say it's dangerous. the people in this abc news poll don't like what the president is doing with social media, micha

i had to get into tit for tat, but there's an interesting carnegie mellon study that shows the u.s.as interfered in over 80 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000. that does not mean the russian interference -- it is inappropriate. but let us not, you know, let us not police the world there militarily or morally because we need to get our own house in order. i think we would be a better democracy for that. amy: thank you verery much, katrina vanden heuvel, for joining us, editor and publisher of the nation, america's oldest weekly magazine. she had been reporting from moscow for more than three decades. vanden heuvel also is a columnist for thewashingtonpost.com. we will link to the nation and to her peace "patriotism in the , trump era." when we come back, we go south. we go to honduras where bertita zuniga caceres, the daughter of the murdered indigenous environmentalist berta caceres, had an assassination attempt against her this past weekend. we will talk to her. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: performing here in democracy now! studios. this is democracy now!, democracynow.o

." >> and another name, the economist from carnegie mellon rumored to be filling a spot on the fed boarde're waiting to see that appointment. and of course, the big one everyone's already speculating on is if janet yellen stays on next year, her term is up, and if not, who president trump, gary cohn and team would pick. >> absolutely right. and when we get those, still uncertain -- a couple could come over the summer, a few rumored, but hard to tell exactly when nomination's coming. >> as far as this one, randal quarles, this rumor was swirling at the imf meeting back in washington and we talked to tim adams, as usual, the head of the iff, which is the group which represents global banks all over the world, especially the big u.s. banks, and he was very enthusiastic about this pick, says he has worked with him before in treasury, so he knows the regulatory regime, but also, he is very familiar with the banking sector and overall viewed positively in terms of deregulation, but not taking it too far and not too idealistic. >> but he's not tarullo, and it's a big step away from that. >> tru

conduct interviews dr love and a post-doctoral fellow at the institute for politics and strategy at carnegie mellonso dr levin is a very smart guy and he did this extensive research about whether or not the u.s. has ever meddled in any other country's election and through his research this very smart dr levin determined that the u.s. has interfered with elections in no fewer than forty five and countries eighty one election from the years of nine hundred forty six to two thousand and we're not talking about interfering with. their countries politics or economics through wars or whatever that number would be much larger we're only talking about actual proof of direct meddling in election and the us has done that over eighty times and she lay argentina israel japan brazil czechoslovakia ukraine russia south vietnam philippines iran you get the picture forty seven countries and we haven't always even been covert about it more often than not we've done it overtly for the world to see so dr levin is telling smerconish this and smerconish is like blown away by these figures and he actually says wow i don

the cows and take in realtime to be showing buyers and his beef is of the highest quality as a carnegie-mellon professor several years ago had a company that provides the app for sports teams now clients includes sports teams including the penguins her family came to america and she is a great role model for anybody in the stem field. a stroke patients brain loses 2 million brain cells every minute to. explaining that connectivity because of the time of stabilizing a patient is cut by 38 minutes. so respectively fiber providers in kansas or on the gulf coast or from detroit. i have seen for myself building high seas fiber networks have even strong some fiber myself along a crowded city block in minneapolis. and who runs my hometown radio station they have new generations of connections and with the seattle-based company hopes thus avoid those unwanted robocalls and i carry with me florence from new york city calling them the wild west hopefully you will put this on your agenda it is disruptive. and last but not least the workers of the fcc the strongest profit we have and it is an honor to wor

before entering public service he was an assistant professor at heinz college in carnegie mellon university. he has a bachelors degree from michigan state university as well as a masters and doctorate degree from stanford university. please kick us off with your opening remarks and we will go from there. >> thank you. distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to discuss tax reform once again with my colleagues and friends. i am appearing here on my own behalf. several of us appeared on a similar panel six years ago at a hearing entitled how did we get here. given the consensus for tax reform, this hearing might be entitled why are we still here. in all seriousness, significant progress has been made in the interim. first, the fiscal agreement largely fixed him coachman and prevented it from morphing from a class tax to amass tax. similarly, in 2011, we had well over 100 structural extenders and these were fixed by permanent extensions or for five years. in addition, over the past five years, both tax-writing committees have conducted a thorough examination of the pri

i carry with me a carnegie mellon professor. several years ago she founded a company that creates apps for sports teams and venues, delivering information to fans. the client included sports teams, including her beloved penguins. her personal story is inspiring. her family came to america through india and she is a great role model for indian americans and women in the stem fields. and i carry with me a doctor from the cleveland clinic. 2stroke patient's brain uses million brain cells every minute and the doctor explained how connectivity of the self has allowed the units to cut the time for stabilizing a patient by 38 minutes. i carry with me mike bosch, andy newton, travis carter, and others. they helped run competitive fiber providers, one in kansas, southern lights at the gulf coast, u.s. internet in minnesota, and rocket fiber in detroit. i have seen for myself how they are building fiber networks in small towns and big cities. i have even strong fiber myself in a by you in louisiana and in a crowded city block in minneapol

it is not hard to see why, not just cost in the case of pittsburgh, it is carnegie mellon, pitt, graduatingigh number of tech employees or tech graduates, and that's driving people to pittsburgh a low cost of living with that makes them very attractive detroit and indianapolis have similar characteristics of having great education complex, and low cost of living, making them attractive choices not only to hire but places for people to live. >> spencer, if you look at square footage costs, say you want to open an office in one of the three cities relative to doing it on sand hill road, what's the distinction >> i think the most expensive places are clearly in san francisco and new york but looking at just the cost of occupancy, that's substantially lower in those markets could be looking at cost of occupancy in pittsburgh versus san francisco and cost of labor on top of that might be also a third less than you would see in san francisco or new york. so overall occupancy costs could be 33% below -- >> and final question. is it the big companies, the facebooks and googled that open outposts in

professor marvin goodfriend, who you may be familiar with, of carnegie-mellon, gave what i thought was an instructive distinction between monetary and fiscal policy and said, "monetary policy does not favor one sector of the economy over another and monetary policy creditt involve taking risk on to the fed's balance sheet." on to say "credit policy works by interposing the government's credit worthiness, power to borrow credibly taxes between private borrowers and lenders to distress borrowers. fed credit policies are acquiring noncredit securities with freshly created bank reserves or proceeds from the treasures from the fed portfolio." i guess my question is, chair with this you agree distinction and if you don't agree with this distinction, do feel that credit policy is commensurate with your mandate?onal chairman yellen: the fomc, in principles for normalization has clearlypolicy indicated that it intends to return, over time, to a primarily treasury-only portfolio and that's in order not to influence the allocation the economy. that said, our purchases of tookage-backed securities

professor marvin goodfriend, who i think you may be familiar with, of carnegie mellon, gave what i thought was an instru instructiinstruc instructive distinction between monetary and fiscal policy. he said "monetary policy does not favor one sector of the economy over another, and monetary policy does not involve taking credit risk onto the feds' balance sheet." by contrast, he went on to say credit policy works by interposing the government's credit worthiness, the power to borrow credibly against further taxes, between private borrowers and lenders to distribute credit flows to distress borrowers. fed credit policy involves lending to private institutions or acquiring non-treasury securities with freshly created bank -- or proceeds from the sale of treasuries from the fed portfolio. i guess my question is, do you agree with this discussion, and if you do agree with this distinction, do you feel that credit policy is commensurate with your congressional mandate? >> well, the fomc and its principles are for normalization of monetary policy has clearly indicated that it intends to return ov