professor ate a carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh, codirector of the initiative for digital media analytics which is what? rahul: again, the book is a culmination of the research we have been doing for the last maybe 10 or 12 years. in the process we get a variety questions at the level in the policy level. we have done a lot of work on copyright and infringement and how effective it is. these are in the process of establishing the center. the purpose of the center is to hire faculty and students who will come in at times and do research for the media industry. peter: professor, has the legislators and regulators here in washington kept up with the changes in this world? rahul: so, i think much of the focus over the last maybe 10 years when it comes to regulation was for protecting content. how to stop the infringement of the content. 1998 when napster came in, the music industry is not what it was 10 years ago. obviously the content is definitely what they want to protect, the intellectual property and copyright. it gets very challenging because now it is the individual users who

that's where you'll find carnegie-mellon university. uber snatched professors and researchers from the school to work at uber. >>> shares in twitter fell 5% wednesday after the company once again announced executives were leaving, including the chief technology officer. twitter has seen a number of defections lately. let's check your news before the bell, landon dowdy is live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning, landon. >> good morning to you. it may take a little while longer for the dow to reach the 20,000 level. futures are flat and stocks flip slipping with the markets in thin volume ahead of the holidays. look for data on unemployment, durable goods, income and spending and the final report on third quarter gdp. the dow fall to 19,941, the nasdaq down to 5,471. >>> superheroes have a lot more powers. the twitter accounts used to promote marvel characters like captain america were hacked, and the hackers left message like don't worry, we're just testing your security. several other contractors' accounts were hacked including an

probably because that's where you find carnegie-mellon university. uber snatched professors and researchers to work at uber. peter teal wheel continues to e his power with the trump administration. >>> new reports say guiding the nasa policy to include rocket launches. thiel's latest company is involved in border secure. the electronic privacy information center says the palo alto company supplies computer power. >>> someone has to run the computers and keep track of illegal immigrants. there are two concerns this morning. one is thiel has not separated his business from his position in the trump administration. to be fair, neither has trump. if you were to build a muslim database, this would be the sort of technology that you would use. so we're going to continue to watch the involvement with the administration. >> because the conversation will certainly continue. >>> thank you very much scott. we go now to southern california where we're getting ready for another round of rain in the bay area. an evening storm already brought very heavy rains to pa

university president. now you are. and you've got one of the challenges is to do the tech tfr, commercialization. what we have seen coming out of carnegie mellon is unique models of tech transfer commercialization, including one with uber and several others. can you speak to us a little bit about that. and is that going to be something really good, are the universities going to begin to adopt new models and see more tech transfers commercialization of those great ideas? >> so maybe i'll start with a personal data point. i was a young -- when i started my academic career i was a young assistant professor at an ivy league school for 10 years. during those 10 years, i published quite a bit. during those 10 years i did not have is a single patent. then the next 10 years, after the first 10 years i moved out of the university, well-known university. during those 10 years, i had 21 patents. many were licensed. there was a spin out country that came out of it. i wasn't any different. i wasn't any smarter. i had more opportunities available to me. the scientific work did not change. it's just is the opportunities that were available to me were really

. >> the president of carnegie mellon university, the honorable suresh and the chairman and ceo of manomec, mr. jim phillips. >> hello. good afternoon. we're the last guys. >> thanks for hanging in there. >> thanks for hanging in there for us and everything. we're going to be talking about entrepreneurism and everything, i certainly have some entrepreneurs here and two very distinguished hanlists. so obviously sitting at the very end this guy is best known obviously for the careers of tom hanks and meg ryan in you've got mail and then he founded a little company called aol that did actually real well. this man right here has been the former president of the national science foundation and did a phenomenal job obviously and everybody knows that and is now president of the carnegie mellon. we have got one of the top people in i.t. in history with one of the top material scientists in the world so this is going to be a lot of fun. i want to get it started. it's a great time to be alive. it's a great time to be here with you, but, you know, we are in a very unusual time. i mean, everybody reme

. >> john pea, carnegie mellon university.ge atkins reminds us there are a lot of possibilities so we may have standards bodies waiting for regulators to tell us what they need to develop and regulators waiting for standard bodies to pick models, where -- who should be driving this process or how do we coordinate across all of these players? >> coordination is a challenge. and i agree with both panelists earlier, that i do think the ntia and federal agencies have gotten much better, much more open in collaboration. i think i've seen that -- we've seen that, not just on panels like this, but i've seen senior military officials talk about the need to think about how they could open the spectrum up for even for those own reasons that it is good for them. that is not much of an answer. i guess i would say, yeah, there has to be collaboration and policymakers should -- if they are not now, be more involved potentially in some of the discussions earlier on and not be necessarily as passive. there are tradeoffs with that, too and ric

. >> john pea, carnegie mellon university.d page atkins reminds us there are a lot of possibilities so we may have standards bodies waiting for regulators to tell us what they need to develop and regulators waiting for standard bodies to pick models, where -- who should be driving this process or how do we coordinate across all of these players? >> coordination is a challenge. and i agree with both panelists earlier, that i do think the ntia and federal agencies have gotten much better, much more open in collaboration. i think i've seen that -- we've seen that, not just on panels like this, but i've seen senior military officials talk about the need to think about how they could open the spectrum up for even for those own reasons that it is good for them. that is not much of an answer. i guess i would say, yeah, there has to be collaboration and policymakers should -- if they are not now, be more involved potentially in some of the discussions earlier on and not be necessarily as passive. there are tradeoffs with that, too and

university president. now you are. and you've got one of the challenges is to do the tech transfer. what we have seen coming out of carnegie mellon is unique models, including one with uber and several others. can you speak to us a little bit about that. and is that going to be something really good, are the universities going to begin to adopt new models and see more tech transfers commercialization of those great ideas? >> so maybe i'll start with a personal data point. i was a young -- when i started my academic career i was a young assistant professor at an ivy league school for 10 years. during those 10 years, i published quite a bit. during those 10 years i did not have is a single patent. then the next 10 years, after the first 10 years i moved out of the university, well-known university. during those 10 years, i had 21 patents. many were licensed. i wasn't any different. i wasn't any smarter. i had more opportunities available to me. the scientific work did not change. it's just is the opportunities that were available to me were really different. carnegie mellon 10 years ago there was a change of policy for faculty -- t

. >> pittsburgh, you know, along with carnegie mellon, which is an amazing university, it's a think tanktes these new opportunities. but it is a spirit. what happened also over the last eight years -- you can tell i haven't been a big fan of the last eight years but we have had lots of government programs that have made it easier for people to not go out and get trained and retrained. so you take pittsburgh as a model. that's what the whole country should be looking at, a very positive tooutd attitude towards the future. >> what about unions. >> unions to me, i can't -- i'm very anti-union. >> why? >> when you hear the word union think of the word inflation because they cost a lot of money. and any time you are doing anything with a union, you are going to find that you could have done that a lot cheaper if you hadn't had some sort of union involved with it. >> which is why jobs flee to mexico and elsewhere? >> mexico, china, colombia. i mean, in eastern europe. and that's why business owners will do that, because they are rewarded for doing so and that's what they are paid to do. once w

carnegie mellon ph.d. to use a cybersecurity product. then data scientists. we have practically a universityrtment of ph.d.s who are writing the algorithms that undergird all this detection technology. emily: a lot going on here when it comes to global cybersecurity. president-elect trimp planning to issue an executive order on on day one to prioritize the creation of a cyberresponse infrastructure, yet at the same time he's been skeptical of these claims that russia hacked the u.s. elections. how do you expect the threat landscape to change under president trump? nate: i think the threat landscape will continue becoming more and more hostile to the united states. for the simple fact that offense is structurally dominant. a doll after offense beats a dollar of defense every time. if the u.s. is going to ensure a basic level of trust and stability in the cyberdomain, we have to bring to bear all the elements of american power in order to deter our adversaries. it shouldn't be about the united states hacking hackers. we should be martialing every element of military, diplomatic, economic, and