so, m.i.t. will become the first ai enabled university in the world.d, that is a vision i could buy in on. david: final question i would like to ask you. it deals with this. if somebody is watching or reading your book and they want to be a leader, a leader in business, philanthropy, or government, what do you think is the key quality to be a leader? what have you seen as the key quality that enabled you to be a leader? steve: i think, to be a leader, you have to be a really good listener. you have to understand what is going on around you. you have to be measured, and you have to realize that everything you do is amplified in the minds of the people who are listening to you. so care, nuance, kindness. but, defining a culture is what a leader does. david: steve, thank you for this time. i appreciate it. steve: thanks, david. ♪ when it comes to using data, everyone is different. which is why xfinity mobile is a different kind of wireless network that lets you design your own data. choose unlimited, shared data, or mix lines of each and switch any line,

m.i.t., went of started talking. we were concerned the u.s.nvesting enough in these technologies. i said, do you have any interesting ideas? he came back with, let's double the computer science faculty. let's establish a new department, a new school, which is now going to be the m.i.t.-choice been college of computing, and connect ai with all the other departments at m.i.t. will become the first ai enabled university in the world. i can, that is a vision buy in on. david: final question. if somebody is watching or reading your book, and they want to be a leader in business or or government, what is the key quality to be a leader? what have you seen in your key quality? stephen: to be a leader, you have to be a good listener. you have to understand what is going on around you. you have to be measured and you have to realize that everything you do is amplified in the minds of the people who are listening to you. kindness, but defining a culture, is what a leader does. david: thank you for this time. stephen: thanks, david. ♪ ♪ viviana: coming up

harvard and m.i.t..es there is the university of pennsylvania and its school of engineering that were also important but the leaders -- what gave them an advantage, was that they were the center of government-sponsored business research during the war. the leaders were from harvard and m.i.t., including one of the people i talk about in the book, vannevar bush, who is the original entrepreneur professor. he has this extraordinary career, crossing over academia, government and industry. he is the founder of raytheon. while he is an electoral engineering professor and m.i.t.. he goes on in world war ii to lead the wartime research and about meant office under franklin roosevelt. he is known as roosevelt's general of physics. he has a very high public profile then. he is the person who kind of conceives of this postwar research network that is based in a lot of universities. and so, that explains boston. boston is, a lot of money is finally in after world war ii. and there's, the electronics industry is bas

>> one of the great things about m.i.t.ve these incredible students and postdoctoral fellows and collaborators and it's really them. i feel very lucky i've had such great people to work with over the years and they are just very excited about doing work at the interface of biology and engine nearing. it's really they that do it. it is easy for me to keep up with it because, you know, they keep going over things with me. jenna: we have to talk about some of the companies you have helped found. i once read you never set out to become a founder. langer: that's true. my goal has always been to see companies we have been involved with get up to help people, get out to make the world a better place, make people have happier, healthier lives. when it was very naive when i started, we would write papers, like you said, but people read neighbors and they use papers and cite them, but that does not necessarily lead to products. what i realized after a pretty long period of time is the only way that would happen is if i involved doing

ramps for people of color and women into tech and doesn't have to be a traditional kind of i went to m.i.t. there are so many different i was and one thing we do at cta, we launched the apprenticeship coalition at ces 2019 because there are so many people that want to get into tech and does it doesn't have to be the traditional route with a four year. >> the keynotes are created by -- so it might be intel and nvidia and samsung and what not. i'm not accusing those companies of anything, but if you got to the point where you noticed that there was no diversity in these companies and their keynotes, even though it is their right to choose their keynote speakers, i'm assuming you would step in and say we're not doing that again. >> our goal is to be additive. we talked to our companies and companies that decide to keynote, we're in constant kosks with th conversation with them. we're excited we're going to have meg whitman and secretary of transportation elaine cho on our keynote stage. we think it is one thing that happened at ces, intel talked about the importance of diversity and inclusion

he didn't ask the mathematicians from m.i.t. he didn't ask the mathematicians from stanford or harvard. he asked the brilliant mathematician from west virginia state university to calculate my trajectory, and make sure i get home safe. that says a lot about what katherine was to not only nasa, but what she meant to the individuals she worked with. they relied on her. they put their lives in her hands. so, what she meant to nasa was that we won the space race, and katherine johnson played a very significant role in that. you know, katherine is about dashes from a small town about two hours from west virginia state university. we had the privilege before the rest of the world fell in love with katherine johnson, to have her beautiful face on our campus at the tender age of 10. she was unable to go to high school in her hometown because of the hue of her skin, so she and her family had to pack up and travel for two hours to west virginia state university. we have then an elementary school and a high school that were part of the uni

maria: at m.i.t.ificial intelligence lab at m.i.t. her students are identifying jobs people don't want, like separating recycled bottles and cans. >> this robot is able to grab an object, squeeze it a little bit to figure out what material it's made up. and it decides it's made of metal, plastic or paper and it recycled it automatically. this is extraordinary because recycling is such a terrible job. we hope to offer people working in the recycling injury to operate the robots from a distance. maria: but artificial intelligence is only as effective as the information it is given. if there is bias in the data, the result will reflect it. the results were mixed on the chihuahua puppy and blueberry muffin. >> they are running around doing errands for us, but it's the job of the human to interpret what the system has done. for this reason, the use of these technologies require that we think carefully about how we insure consumer confidence. maria: in march of 2018 an uber self-driving car made national he

in physics from m.i.t. but that's not what made the importance in my life. e said to me that when he left lake city, south carolina, carver high school, he went to north carolina a&t. and was on that campus with those professors who had similar backgrounds and experiences that he had who understood what it was to come from a little rural community and took the time to nurture him and to prepare him for his journey through life. i told this story to the current president of south carolina state university from which i am a graduate. and he said to me, he neuron mcnair up -- he knew ron mcnair up at m.i.t. where he graduated from. he said to me of all the students on that campus, ron mcnair was better prepared for the journey at m.i.t. than anybody else. that is because these hbcu's take the time not to just explore what may be in the textbooks, but they look at what may be in the life experiences of these students who come there. when i think about those students growing up on the sea islands of florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, gitchee e call

after a few years of teaching, applied and was accepted to m.i.t. in architecture and planning where he earned a dual master's in architecture and planning. after graduating, he returned to tehran where he would be part of the largest modernization program in the country's history that they had ever seen. he taught at the university level for a while but quickly became part of the shah's government. my father rose quickly through the ranks to become department minister of planning and spatial planning for the country and was involved in the placement of roads, bridges, highways, dams, and importantly the locations of major centers of housing and economic development to ensure balanced development throughout the country. it was during this time my parents had me. after all -- all of his life's work came abruptly to a halt in 1979 the when the people rose up to the shah and deposed him. this was wildly popular and atta was part of the new government at the time until the new party violently solidified its hold on power. it was after this violent revol

let's connect the ai of all the other departments at m.i.t., so m.i.t.university in the world. i said, that is a vision i could buy in on. david: final question i would like to ask you. it deals with this. if somebody is watching or reading your book and they want to be a leader, a leader in business, philanthropy or government, what do you think is the key quality to be a leader? what have you seen as a key quality that enabled you to be a leader? steve: i think to be a leader, you have to be a really good listener. you have to understand what is going on around you. you have to be measured and you have to realize that everything you do is amplified in the minds of the people who are listening to you. so care, nuance, kindness. a culture is what a leader does. david: steve, thank you for this time. i appreciate it. steve: thanks, david. ♪ beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gig-speed network. beca

but one m.i.t.n new york city got the bright id to make personalized shampoos and conditioners for each customer, because after all no two heads of hair are alike. >> well, that's cool. >> six years age zahir had a doctorate from mit turned down a consulting job and made money subletting apartments while dalk in start-ups and pos doctoratework but the family was alarjd larmd by the lo lax of direction. >> i was the golden chieltd went to mit and a had a ph. no idea what to do in life. >> he turned the grad school project into a small business selling skincare but found himself fstrated feeling the goods didn't stand out in the marketplace. he asked his customers how t perfect them. >> every person said something different. >> that got him thinking. >> t only way i could possibly solve every one of the people's problems if h made a separate sham beau and conditioner and body wash and body lotion just for them. >> psonalized hair care products? invidualized for any combination of curly or straight hai

sorted oh it's tonight's the new piece of m.i.t. the doctors suspected liver cancer they had discovered a 12 centimeter growth and signs of impending liver failure and. based on the c.t. image we discovered a very large liver tumour the blood supply to the right side of the liver was already partly disrupted on the left lobe was clearly enlarged. and 34 course of boys did not follow up to us and when i was told it was a tumour then i called my mother often asked her to come. the team of surgeons got to work right away. the affected live alone and part of her diaphragm removed but it wasn't cancer. the diagnosis wasn and protection with a going to caucus. of the box tape worm. the tape were measures just 4 millimeters it has a head and 3 to 5 segments. the last segment contains hundreds of new tape worm eggs. typically infected foxes in other animals excrete the eggs humans with close contact to animals can ingest the eggs and bianca vastnesses case that was probably her dog the eggs hatch and the larvae make their way into the blood

there was software developed by m.i.t. that was used to actually do the landing. it basically started the digital revolution which came out of that program. another interesting thing i read about on facebook, a friend of mine came out of the video industry. an engineer said the original data tapes had been lost. that camera they have on the lunar craft, in the images looked pretty bad because they had to take that data and convert the signal. the original data tapes were lost. i seem to recall they found those tapes, and what happened was nasa decided to sell off a copy of the tapes in 1976 at a surplus sale, and some intern bought those tapes, and they were the original tapes that the guy bought. >> they are being auctioned off today in new york. they are expected to fetch a price of about a million dollars. why were you so convinced the moon would >> i was an 18-year-old kid. i did not see any reason how we would fail. >> ok. daniel is next in tennessee. good morning. >> good morning, sir. >> you are on. go ahead. >> i worked at cape canaveral during that time.

noticed was there were a few headlines that said things like -- there's one that said indian-american m.i.tbel prize. what did you think? there were a few more like that. >> i didn't have time to get offended because the french press said esther dewfleur wins nobel prize. >> what's fascinating about your work is that there are so many things to talk about, but i want to start by talking about the fact that you up end one of the central assumptions of economics. this is about economic man or woman, rational man or woman and the basic idea is we all as human beings respond to economic responses. your work says when you observe it, that's not true. give me -- expand on this. >> well, i mean, many versions of this. for example, the one that's politically perhaps the most salient is rich people, unless you give them huge tax breaks, they're going to take a vacation. there's absolutely no evidence. it's hard to even imagine that somebody like bill gates suddenly going on vacation. i don't think he could do it if he tried actually. i don't think there is any evidence that corporate tax cuts are ne

i did the m.i.t. commencement year and a half ago. it said something like this.nology is changing everything about our lives. people are not speaking one-on-one anymore. now anyone can say anything to anyone, and it doesn't even have to be true. the world has ever been more polarized. our society is falling apart. that sounds like people are talking about facebook, and those are very legitimate concerns. that same quote has also been written about the printing press, the radio, the television. i am not saying that to minimize the concerns. technology spreads so much more quickly online. but the fundamental pattern that technology comes, everyone sees the good, then harms happen and everyone sees the bad, then we settle into what is more a nuanced view of what are complicated technologies. i think our whole team, all of those amazing employees at facebook, we have a deep responsibility to get this right and fix the issues. i think in the end when the smoke clears, people will see technology can and has been used to do harm, and always has been. as we speak, somebo

an equally strong justification for it in my view, and i wonder if you would .omment, according to m.i.t. scientist, a scary statistic because the exponential rise in autism. years,ims that within 10 every other family will be dealing with a child in the autism sector -- spectrum. this'll take a terrific amount of resources to provide for homeowners typically, caretakers in the home who are not being paid. and you have spoken to this on occasions. could you comment on this as a possible other justification and reason are rationale for the freedom of dividend, which i like to call that technology dividend. mr. yang: thank you for this question. these are the best questions i've received in some time. i have a son on the autism spectrum. special needs is the new normal. i have not seen a study that suggests is going to get up to 50%. but it is already normal in many millions of families around the country. the big problem here is that you have a special needs child, like my son, who shows up at school and the school says i do not have the resources available to do what this child needs and

caltech and stanford, m.i.t., just below the top off things there. there is always this group that struggles and hit the walls. there is the group that just flies away. possibly because of the existence of the wealth of technology and resources people help access to and whether they are able to leverage that. graduation rates for the college of engineering are the highest in the state. and they have improved over time. have less than half the students get through the engineering degree program. >> we went to probably 20%. close to now we get 70% of students through the system. that does not mean it is easier. i think we are doing pretty good. i am positive about the kids. we can do better. do.ave more work we can technology does take that into consideration. we do not take into consideration what social media , and expose our kids and our kids and ourselves too. moment with every our friends. everything i do i can share. not thinking, maybe i should not share some things. maybe we should not do that. go ahead. >> in the interest of time, you talked a

very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.tdying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪] [♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots.

according to an m.i.t. scientist, she has come up with a say -- a scary statistic because of the exponential rise in autism. she claims that within 10 years, every other family will be dealing with a child in the autism spectrum. this will take a terrific amount of resources to provide for homeowners typically, caretakers in the home who are not being paid. you have spoken to this on a number of occasions. could you comment on this as a possible other justification and reason are rationale for the freedom dividend, which i like to call the tech dividend. andrew: thank you for this question. what i say to families around the country is that special needs is the new normal. i have not seen a study that suggests it is going to get to 50%, but it is already normal in any millions of families across the country. the big problem is you have a special needs child like my son who shows up at school, and the school says, i do not have the resources available to do with this child requires because i have one teacher

we have seen people go from ut to caltech, m.i.t., but below the top off of things there. and there is always this group that struggles and hit the walls and there is the group that flies away. -- maybea middle group the disbursement has gotten larger. possibly because of the wealth of technology and resources people have access to and whether they can leverage that. rate at: our graduation ut for the college of engineering are the highest in the state and they have improved over time. we used to have half the students get through the engineering program. through, it was probably 20%. dr. dean: now it is close to 70% of the students through the system. that does not mean it is easier. i think we are doing pretty good. i am positive about the kids. we can do better. we still have more work we can do. it is a constant battle because technology does not take that into consideration. we did not take into consideration what social media might do and expose our kids and ourselves too. we thought it was great. we can share every moment of our lives with our friends. everything i

navy had been in the habit of recruiting young men from schools like m.i.t. and harvard who seem to have the sort of minds that would lend themselves to code breaking. all of a sudden, after pearl harbor, those men are on -- unavailable because they are shipping out. the u.s. navy had been generating monthly memos, saying where they were finding their potential code breakers to train, what they were learning how to do. you can see, this is from a december, 1941. they are talking about where they are finding their men to learn how to be code breakers. what they are being trained how to do. given the enact the men are unan see on this memo, the light moment going on over a naval officer's head, where are we going to find thousands of code breakers we are going to need? new source, women's colleges. the decision was made in the absence of available men, let's see with these educated young women can do. let's test their brains and tenacity and see if they can apply their minds to this massive code breaking endeavor. as a result of that lightbulb moment in the dec

navy had been in the habit of recruiting young men from schools like m.i.t.and harvard who seem to have the sort of minds that would lend themselves to code breaking. all of a sudden, after pearl harbor, those men are on available because they are shipping out -- unavailable because there shipping out to fight. the u.s. navy had been generating monthly memos, saying where they were finding their potential code breakers to train, what they were learning how to do. you can see, this is from a december, 1941. they are talking about where they are finding their men to learn how to be code breakers. what they are being trained how to do. given the fact that the mentor becoming -- the men are becoming increasingly unavailable, you can see in this memo the lightbulb moments going on over naval officers had, where are we going to find our thousands of code breakers we are going to need? new source, women's colleges? so the decision was made in the absence of available men, let's see what these educated women can do? let's test as well as young women of the seven sist

[indistinct conversations] tom: m.i.t.. i remember. >> good luck, tom. going to have to start forging my signatures. >> thank you so much for coming. tom: my pleasure. 16? you are killing me. i am doing the reverse id. >> merry christmas. tom: i did not go into it. merry christmas to you. isn't that a famous name? >> is not his name. tom: was his real name? stop, you're killing me. can you do me a favor, i'm the worst. i literally don't know what i'm doing. can i ask you a nonpolitical question? tom: yes. what do you think about the impression of you? tom: if will ferrell is making fun of you, that is a win. >> thanks for your work with women. very important. i responded, thank you very much. i could not agree more. the fact that they are mistreated, it even remotely changing is a huge change. it's crazy. >> thank you, i really love to hear that. tom: it's true. >> thank you. tom: the way they taught me to write when i was in first grade and i never grew up. >> i follow the rules. tom: i love having conversations. >> thank you so much. have a nice holida

. >> what -- >> ibm, you know, she's -- m.i.t.coast i continue to believe the east coast people are every bit as smart other than jens e e en hug >> she grew up in queens you mentioned hp inc. >> yes >> because of their reliance on -- >> they're going to miss first quarter, they're too reliant but i just think that this move of amd is the move of the year if we were doing the show the last day of the year, i would say the amd move is probably most -- move i've seen in ages, taking an also ran company and making it a powerhouse and maybe in 18 months >> it has been quite a thing to watch. and the stock did come off dramatically as you know from sort of -- what was that, early in -- in late '18, during the -- and the fall, last year, and then this year, of course. >> there is will be reacceleration of the data center that's fantastic for amd you get offline with people out west, whose chips do they think are the best other than nvidia, amd. they have a new iteration. lisa su uses the cities in italy as rome, naples, i said, listen,

this truck was designed by an m.i.t. doctorate guy, rj, they call him. he owns the company.ing from a bank, from amazon and from ford to get this out there. i think this is the beginning. i'm a big believer in electric. i'm a ham radio operator. i love energy, i love that kind of stuff. who tesla was, was all about electric and energy so i think if they can put a solar panel on the roof, the sun is so powerful you could take a lot from it, put a solar panel on the roof of these cars, let them recharge themselves, this could be an incredible future which we have seen in the old movies. this is the dream of what the future would be like. we are getting there. connell: that's what they said about the pickup truck. everybody was talking about the brick being thrown through the glass but the way it looked was futuristic. you all in? there we go. we may have to show it again. sorry, tesla. >> so mean. i am. i love spinning trucks. i love bulletproof trucks. i'm all in for it. i do think that as we have seen what has happened to the auto industry in europe in particular, and they h

she spoke of codependency and dysfunction just out of m.i.t.. how are we doing?ina going into 2020? catherine: we are trying to reduce codependency and that has been the policy of trying to reduce that codependency. it is difficult to make that happen. divorce is challenging. tom: let's bring this over to the market economics and your world wide team at citigroup and that is simply how it falls into the path of economic growth in china. how critical is that vector right now? cattherine: the reduction in codependency, the divorce is damaging to all parties and we would want to take that metaphor further -- it is not just the two parties involved, but the collateral damage to the rest of the economy. the rest of the global economy is significant. we have downgraded our growth seven times this year. 70 basis points on global growth ,nd there were idiosyncrasies but a lot of that has to do with the trade war and so the damage is significant when we think about global growth going from 3.2 to 2.6. anna: good morning from london. i wanted to ask about the drivers of gr

that puts us in a situation that an m.i.t. economist has said is leading us toward a third world economic model, which will implode the middle class. we have to make basic necessities, including transportation, more affordable for families. we do not have a single solution for what is happening right now, but america is in crisis. families want to do what is best for their children. i am so thankful you are looking at this solution from multiple angles. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chair, for letting us go over. mr. chair: i am happy to do it. i am grateful to have the participation from both ends of the capital. we are going to do a second round, which we will start now. in her testimony, you explained some childcare regulations. in your testimony, you explained some childcare regulations that affect the childcare industry tend to reduce the supply of childcare centers, especially in poor areas, driving up prices and reducing the rate of formal care options for families. for example, a new law in washington, d.c., when it bec

our guest, ben friedman graduate of dartmouth college and a phd candidate in political science at m.i.tormerly with the cato institute, and now the policy director at defense priorities in washington. autumnal, iowa next up. kim on the independent line. caller: i have a question. reagan got's when the wall torn down and gorbachev when putinsident, came in after gorbachev, that is the reason why he was -- pruden was kicked out of the alliance? was kicked out of the alliance? because it was a dictatorship in the president's of the united states did not want to deal with a dictator, they wanted to bring him along but he chose not to go along. i wanted to know that question. when did putin come into office gorbachev was partnered with reagan. i understand in the 2000 bush said he could see his soul. force yelton was also in therebetween gorbachev and put -- gorbachev and putin pruden had a lot to do with -- putin's rise had to deal with the way experience the post-cold war. -- post-cold war period. still technically a democracy despite the authoritarianism. of a dictatorship, or at least di

there was a software developed by m.i.t. to do the landing.basically started the digital revolution. came out of that program. another thing i learned about, on facebook, friend of mine, i came out of the video industry, friend of mine, an engineer said the original data tapes were lost. they were streaming data back from the camera on the lunar craft. they looked bad, they had to take that data, convert it to a signal at the time. but the original data tapes he said were lost. i said i seem to recall they found those tapes. what happened was the tapes, nasa decided to sell a copy of tapes in 1976 at a surplus sale, some nasa intern bought those tapes. come to find out, they were the original tapes the guy bought. >> they're being auctioned off at sotheby's today in new york. they're expected to fetch about a million dollars in fact. why were you convinced the moon would happen? >> i was an 18-year-old kid. thought for sure, i didn't see any reason how we would fail. >> that's theron in georgia. daniel in tennessee. good morning. >> good morni

. >> off shoot of harvard, m.i.t very small targeted chemistry for oncology. >> how do you know thises are growing. they look for a biotech company that's already done a lot of the risk they can bring it into the pipeline. >> it's rare when you wake up -- >> a stock is up 101%. >> she worked at cnbc for so long do you have stocks that go up 100% when you wake up? >> no. no don't really own any stocks either whatever is in my 401k. >> this deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2020 another drug industry deal this morning carries an even bigger premium. french drug maker sanofi is buying synthorx. >> 1 0e 1%. >> look at this. that puts 101 to shame. >> oh, my gosh well, with a name like that -- i just hope they keep that name as one of the subsidiaries. someone thought that one up. that's a terrible -- a name like that is a terrible thing to waste. it's a u.s. biotechnology firm $68 a share here $2.5 billion sanofi ceo will join us live tomorrow at 8:15 eastern i guarantee i'll say that tomorrow canopy growth will be getting a new chief executive officer david klein will ta

and anyone that's really interested in this, pull out your phone, go to a search engine, go look up m.i.t. ambient air capture. and look at the miracle they have. if what they've published is correct on the -- now the price per ton, they believe they can pull co-2 right out of the air, or do it right over a smokestack, if those numbers are correct, we now have a major change in co-2 emissions in the world, because our ability now at amazing prices to be able to pull it right out of the air, these technologies are here. why are we -- aren't we here talking about them on the floor and how to encourage more of it and how to get it rolled out in society here and across world? because if you actually care about global warming, or climate change, whatever the current pop term is, turns out there's amazing technology disruptions that are here, the only problem is they don't allow you to control other people's lives. they just solve the problem. and are we about solving the problem or just the control freaks that are often the members of this body? and then other things. the earned entitlements.