we talk with one of the nation's key self-driving researchers at carnegie mellon university and take a ride in the autonomous car that the university is eveloping. peter: i'm with raj rajkumar of carnegie mellon. what are we looking at right here? what is this? raj: we are looking at a cadillac which is capable of driving itself. so it is a self--driving cadillac. peter: the car looks pretty normal from here. raj: that's a car that we bought new from a cadillac dealership in pittsburgh and outfitted with it a bunch of sensors and computers. added software to it, bam, it drives itself. peter: you wouldn't give us a ride? raj: we would love to give you a ride. hop in. peter: what's the main reaction you get from people riding in the car with you? raj: the typical reaction is one of anxiety and angst. fear and occasionally even panic attacks but then they basically watch the vehicle is able to drive, exactly stopping when it should stop. it's actually riding fairly comfortably with a degree of comfort. peter: we learn more about the move to self-driving cars and professor raj rajkumar at

. >> he has a professor at carnegie mellon university. >> the book at some level is a combination of research we have been doing for the past ten or 12 years. otherwise in the process we did a variety of research at the firm level and policy level. we did a lot of work on copyright infringement and how effective the policies are. we established the center for digital entertainment. the purpose is. [inaudible] professor, have the legislators and regulators here in washington kept up with the changes in this world? >> i think much of the focus over the past ten years, as far as i think into regulation is basically protecting the content. how to stop the infringement of the content. when napster came in, the music industry is not what it was ten years ago. obviously the content industry definitely wants to be able to protect the intellectual property and copyright. it gets really challenging because now it's the individual users and it's hard to go after them and stop them. sometimes we are playing this technology whack a mole. something comes in you and you stop that thing and somethin

he was also an undergraduate at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh. froms joining us massachusetts. independent line. : good morning. thank you for c-span. i've watched all over youtube, the people that have run around for the democratic party to try to get others to get registered to vote. then they throw out the republican registrations, only submitting the democratic registrations. there was all kinds of nasty stuff going on with the democratic party. they have lied to people. they burned bernie sanders right of the contest. that was despicable. she can address that. >> thank you so much for your call. aboutrstand your concern stories of that nature. i will tell you this, as i said at the outset of our conversation, there been a bevy of independent research that has been conducted by academicians, reporters, think takes on both sides of the aisle. liberal leaning organizations, conservative organizations that have all shown that these kinds of actions have not led to voter fraud. i will tell you, if some of the things that you have mentioned have b

we talk with one of the nation's key self-driving researchers at carnegie mellon university and take a ride in the autonomous car that the university is eveloping. peter: i'm with raj rajkumar of carnegie mellon. what are we looking at right here? what is this? raj: we are looking at a cadillac which is capable of drivin

we talk with one of the nation's key self-driving researchers at carnegie mellon university and take a ride in the autonomous car that the university is developing. peter: i'm with raj rajkumar of carnegie mellon. what are we looking at right here? what is this? raj: we are looking at a cadillac suv which is capable of driving itself. it is a self driving cadillac. peter: the car looks pretty normal from here. raj: that's a car that we bought new from a cadillac dealership in pittsburgh and outfitted with a bunch of sensors and computers. added software to it, bam, it drives itself. peter: you want to give us a ride? raj: we would love to give you a ride. hop in. peter: what's the main reaction you get from people riding in the car with you? raj: the typical reaction is one of anxiety and angst. fear and occasionally even panic attacks. but then they basically watch the vehicle is able to drive, exactly stopping when it should stop. it's actually riding fairly comfortably with a degree of comfort. peter: we learn more about the move to self-driving cars and professor raj rajkumar at t

. >> host: rahul telang is a professor at carnegie mellon university, and he's co-director for the initiative for digital media analytics which is what, sir? >> guest: so, again, the book at some level is a culmination of the research we have been doing for the last maybe 10, 12 years. and in the process as we did variety of research both whether research questions dealt at the firm level, but also at a policy level. so we have done a lot of work on copyrights and infringement and how effective various policies are. in the process then we established this center called the initiative for digital entertainment analytics. the purpose of the center is to, you know, hire faculty and students who will commit their time doing research relative to the media industry. >> host: professor, has, have the legislators and regulators here in washington kept up with the changes in this world? >> guest: so i think much of the focus over the last maybe ten years as far as i think when it came to regulation was basically protecting the content; that is, how to stop the infringement of the content. you know, 19

if so since then, google hired key people from carnegie mellon, key people from stanford university, and that's how google launched its self driving vehicle project. google basically has publicized the technology, invested several hundreds of millions of dollars into the company. and then when companies like uber came into being, they have a financial economic incentive to have the vehicles drive themselves. and meanwhile the carmakers, general motors and ford in the u.s., audi, b.m.w. in europe. nissan, honda and toyota in japan. a whole bunch of chinese car makers who want to have a part in the market and one in south korea, all of them have been investing big time in this space. meanwhile, big automotive suppliers like bosh, a company in germany, as well as delphi, based in the u.s., have been investing bigtime as well. we have investments, research and portfolios. and from technology from google, uber, apple, lyft and so on so technology is progressing very rapidly. peter: you talk about it as action, but is it competition? are they developing their own systems like you are here?

i don't know how they did is >> from carnegie mellon university co-author of the book steamy - - streaming stealing data cable or satellite provider. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. i guess everybody did not get the memo to dress up but i could not not to be herere because brcs so thrilled if i have not had a chance to say hello to have that extraordinary privilege to be the president of the extraordinary institution and could not be most fitting that we are here tonight to celebrate this book cannot serve and this subject in this house. [applause] as solid you know, so well we are gathered this evening in the home eleanor roosevelt shared with her husband and her mother-in-law of laugh 25 years from the front steps that you enter today departing for washingtona 1933 to take on the burden of life and the lighthouse and the challenges and with the decades after when roosevelt became not just of first lady of the united states but of the world her activism and sense of justice the belief in women's rights and quest for civil rights were commitments borne and nurtured. here raising

cheryl: kumar shows off the automated parts he created for the cadillac at carnegie mellon universityf it as a super duper, cruisal cro button -- cruise control button. cheryl: he says that general motors will feature the invention in some of the vehicles this year. that is good gnaws for trump who met with the big three american auto makers this morning and asked them to make more cars in the u.s. the meeting was blocks away from where the washington auto show is getting set up to the public on friday. >> it's understandable that a president concerned about employment in the united states would look at the car business. made in america is your car? frank studies components of every car on the road and he is concerned about the president's plan. >> the consumer will pay more for the car because of the tariffs imposed on the vehicle coming from outside the u.s. >> it is understandable to look at it on a macro basis and say there are opportunities here to increase employment. >> a new president is driving the conversation at the washington auto show this year. >> in northwest west, cher

>> tonight on the communicators, carnegie mellon university professor and co-author of the book streaming, sharing, stealing will discuss the -- and of data on the its impact on the entertainment industry. access to this detailed user information, and having the skills and thatngness to use the data you think it would provide them with an advantage. you can see they are really investing and outgrowing. you can watch the communicators tonight on c-span and c-span2 at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. >> tonight on c-span, we hear from vehicle technology experts and government consultants about the latest technology and the future of transportation. >> so, today 90% of the accidents that happen on our roadways are due to human error -- distracted driving, drunk driving. if we, in theory, eliminate humans from the driving equation, then we eliminate 90% of the accidents. that in itself is huge. i mentioned also enhanced mobility for the elderly and disabled. that is also exciting. another part is rethinking power rethinking our land use. if we have more of a shared use society where people are not pur

was visited -- at that point i was at the lewis institute of peace on a sabbatical from carnegie mellon university where i had gone after leaving to department of state. institute ofjim and bob einhorne --and asked me what i take asked me would i take bill burns's place? i did nothing wrong about it. i thought it was important to do so i accepted. i was told that i had to understand that this was in interagency effort, it was not the state department in charge. all of the money came from the pentagon. and therefore, the agreements had to be signed by the pentagon representative, who was gloria duffy. so i got to sit up front and help with the negotiations. gloria signed the agreements. in the process, i want to mention two attorneys that helped me and gloria very much, you have already mentioned one of them. jack beard and roy gardner. two very able lawyers from the defense department. i think it is fair to say that jack beard probably created this legal framework. it consisted of we call an umbrella agreement that describe the scope of what the operations were going to be with the four countries

[applause] >> tonight on the communicators, carnegie mellon university professor and co-author of the book streaming, sharing, stealing will discuss the -- and of data on the its impact on the entertainment industry. access to this detailed user information, and having the skills and thatngness to use the data you think it would provide them with an advantage. you can see they are really investing and outgrowing

joining us now is a distinguished fellow at carnegie mellon university and author of "the immigrant exodus." welcome. nice to see you. >> good to be on. >> so one question we're asking here today is why the ceos felt the need to speak up about this action. do you think it's because of a values argument, it violates the values of them, their employees and silicon valley at large? or is this a big threat to their business? >> it's a threat to their business and their employees are terrified. you have to realize that more than half of silicon valley is born overseas. this is the most diverse place on this planet practically, and a lot of people here are on temporary visas. what happened this weekend was that they realized that even if they get green cards, permanent resident visas, that they could still be ejected from the united states and no one was aware of this. this is sending shock waives through the system. i've had two or three dozen people contact me over the weekend asking if they should just go back home, give it up, they've been waiting 5, 10, 15 years for their green cards. now i

[applause] >> tonight, on the communicators, carnegie mellon university professor, the streaming,f the book sharing, stealing, discusses the impact of data on the book, movie, music, and television industries. he talked about how companies like netflix, amazon, and google accumulate large amounts of data on consumer preferences and use it to transform industries. detailed user information and having the skills and putting to use the data, you would think that provides them an advantage. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. the new congress starts tuesday. watch all of the opening-day events and activities on c-span. we are live from the u.s. capitol starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern. you will meet you representatives in here from returning members. the house gavels in at noon. opening-day business includes the election of the house speaker, his address to the whole house, and later debate and a vote on rules for the new congress. one rule in part to cure is getting attention. a proposal to find members who live stream video from the house floor. it's in respons

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