we are pleased to hold this evening's program together with stanford university for cooperation and the institute for international studies at stanford. as we debate about the recovery of the u.s. economy and follow the presidential primary race, it is sometimes easy to forget that the greatest danger facing human kind is still the presence of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of several countries and the continuing quest by countries like north korea and iran and terrorist groups to obtain atomic weapons. the nuclear arms situation faded into the background with the end of the cold war. it became the province of nuclear policy wonks and academic institutions. but should it fade into the background? with us on the stage are three men who emphatically say no to this question. and one man who has chronicled the quest, who continue to point out the great dangers associated with nuclear weapons. perhaps the probability of the use of these weapons is low. but the consequences of that low probability event are unimaginably horrible. so these courageous men, who have built t

perry cofounded esl corporation and served as an an perry emeritus at stanford university. irector of the preventative defense project, a and harbor laboration of universities. he received his b.s. degree from stanford university and phd from penn state, all in mathematics. we also are delighted to introduce the wonderful lee perry who is here. sam nunn is co-chairman and officer of the initiative, a non partisan the global threats from nuclear weapons, which he was instrumental in founding. he served as thesenator of geor from 1972 to 1996. now he is retired from the law firm king & spalding. senator nunn served as chairman of the arms committee and permanent subcommittee on investigations. he also served on the intelligence and small business committees. senator nunn's legislative achievements include the non-luger productive program which provides assistance which secures destroying biological weapons. senator nunntt tech, emery university and emery law school where he graduated with honors in 1962. we are delighted to welcome the lovely colleen nunn who is with us this e

x or start x at stanford university, they're all programs at the college level that are taking student entrepreneurs and partnering them with angel investors, alumni entrepreneurs, certainly faculty, other students. they're cross collaborative. i was a stanford m.b.a. this is across the medical school, the law school, the arts academies, the design school. it's really a very interesting thing to see piloted at the university level, and any university could do this, any community college could do this. it's an important thing to try to replicate. now, shifting forward. foreign born entrepreneurs, and i realize immigration is a contentious topic, it's not something that states can address without also working a lot with the federal level. but it's an important thing for championing at the state, local, regional level. foreign born entrepreneurs are representing 30% of all new business owners in the united states. and 25% of the high-tech start-ups, this is most of silicon valley has -- a lot of it has at least one founder who's foreign born. these are companies, there are

he has been a professor at mit, the university of chicago, and stanford university where he teaches at the graduate school of business. he is also a distinguished fellow at the hoover institution. he holds a b.a. from princeton university and a ph.d. and industrial economics from mit. we are pleased to have with us the chief of protocol from the city of sam francisco. william perry was the 19th secretary of defense, serving from february 1994 through 1997 in the clinton administration. he was instrumental in winding down the cold war and find -- forming new relationships with countries like the soviet states, china, and japan. he served as deputy secretary of defense and undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. one of the early pioneers in silicon valley, he co-founded esl corp.. he is the senior fellow at the hoover institution and the michael professor emeritus at stanford university with a joint appointment in the school of engineering. he is co-director of the defense project, a collaboration of stanford and harvard. he received his bs and ms degrees from stanford an

x or start x at stanford university, they're all programs at the college level that are taking student entrepreneurs and partnering them with angel investors, alumni entrepreneurs, certainly faculty, other students. they're cross collaborative. i was a stanford m.b.a. this is across the medical school, the law school, the arts academies, the design school. it's really a very interesting thing to see piloted at the university level, and any university could do this, any community college could do this.

i was getting paid to speak at stanford university doing star trainings and peer resources literally gave my mom the hopes that she wanted for us at such ar young age. >> and i really believe in peer resources. i've never once not felt like it was part of any family and today being able to come out and know everybody and feel the connection that everybody has, i feel like, it is a very special part of san francisco unified school district and i really appreciate that you guys took the time to listen to us. so thank you. >> morgan, i met morgan when he was a freshman and i had my eyes on him then that i hoped someday he would become a teacher and i feel blessed and lucky he is a peer resource teacher. one wanted to be here but could not and she is a graduate from 2003 and now a journalist for a magazine and writes, it's not possible to -- impossible to restate this. i was lonely and drifting and peer resources gave me real social support and outlet for my creativity and way to channel the energy to better my school community. it was this positive feedback group. the more avenues it ga

he has been a professor at mit, the university of chicago, and stanford university where he teaches at the graduate school of business. he is also a distinguished fellow at the hoover institution. he holds a b.a. from princeton university and a ph.d. and industrial economics from mit. we are pleased to have with us the chief of protocol from the city of sam francisco. william perry was the 19th secretary of defense, serving from february 1994 through 1997 in the clinton administration. he was instrumental in winding down the cold war and find -- forming new relationships with countries like the soviet states, china, and japan. he served as deputy secretary of defense and undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. one of the early pioneers in silicon valley, he co-founded esl corp.. he is the senior fellow at the hoover institution and the michael professor emeritus at stanford university with a joint appointment in the school of engineering. he is co-director of the defense project, a collaboration of stanford and harvard. he received his bs and ms degrees from stanford an

some sitting in the audience and the students at stanford and other universities who are being inspired to follow-up. we have two generations waiting to pick up that baton. >> i think charlotte schultz put this question to her husband in a very succint way when ywe wer on the way to berlin. she turned to him and she said, george, when are you going to get some young people to work on this? to which secretary schultz said, we have madeleine albright and colin powell. >> no, i said i'm young. [ laughter ] >> so, at any rate, let me bring this evening to a close. i think this is appropriate to read something at the very end here that involves secretary perry. >> is this a book for sale? and will you sign copies of it? >> yes and yes. i'm describing at the very end here secretary perry who teaches a class at stanford as he describes. as he ends one of the classes, he said to his students, i was auditing this course a couple of years ago and i was working on the book research and i wrote down the words he used at the end of this. he said my generation was responsible for building up this fea

have with us to moderate the program for the question period, mariono florentino professor at stanford university law school and co- director at stanford center for international security and cooperation. from early 2009 through the summer of 2010, he served as special assistant to the president for justice and regulatory policy at the white house. now, we are going to pause just for a moment while we begin -- before beginning our radio, tv, and internet programs for a much wider audience. good afternoon and welcome to today's meeting of the commonwealth club of california, the place where you are in the know. you can find us on the internet at commonwealthclub that board -- commonwealthclub.org. now it is my distinct honor and also a personal pleasure for me to introduce robert s. muller, the sixth director of the federal bureau of investigation. nominated by president george w. bush, he was sworn in to lead the fbi on september 4, 2001, just one week before the al qaeda attacks on 9/11. under his leadership, the fbi has since played the leading role in preventing further terrorist attacks insid

i am lecturer at stanford university, not a professor. that is another level of this conversation teary let me extend the conversation a little bit. one of the things that it was after i left or go, i taught for many years at stanford and talk, as i told the kids, real stuff. i started a class on cloud computing. three years ago, i started a class at the university in beijing as well on this subject because i feel it is really important. we are in my opinion in the second year of a 20-year cycle that is no different than the client server cycle that happened last time around, and i think education is an important component of this. so i'm going to take my four or five minutes to educate you guys a little bit on what is this thing we call cloud computing. i'm going to try uses much plain english as i can, leave all the technical buzzwords aside, and try to eliminate -- illuminate for you what is happening. fundamentally, is an economic thing that is happening, and that is what has always driven technologies economics. i will get to that in

. >> joe nation studies government pension costs at stanford university. >> how does that feel that government workers are getting? >> the three were making 100,000, you retire at age 50. >> those type of tensions which is public safety. the annual firefighter will be here with average pension of about $95,000 per year. do you think that is acceptable? >> well, we certainly see the need for market correction and the benefit will come down. >> they are willing to come down from 90% of the salary to 75%. the mayor wants to cap at 65% for new hires and requires current workers to pay more into the city system. the unions now plan to sue the city. >> we have come to the table and offered to get even more and always have heard from the city is, here is our ballot did issue. >> the mayor hopes controlling pension costs will get his city back on track and finally open those empty libraries. >> eight warning tonight for voters in the san francisco bay. watch out for wales. another gray whale and her calf were spotted in the water today. witnesses reported seeing small boat speed up to get close to the

going to be very beneficial, because now the school district has access to a database that the stanford university garden center created called the early warning indicator database that is able to identify young people who are not tracking in a correct trajectory to succeed and graduate on time. so, we can identify these eighth graders and help them in getting them kind of a summer boot camp, to get them ready for i'd grade. so, we will highlight that this year and we will see what happens. i am very excited, i think that would make a huge impact. supervisor kim: that is very good news. i am curious what percentage of students with credits failed out of their required courses and participated last summer? >> i would not have that information. supervisor kim: do we have the target this year in terms of numbers of eighth, ninth, and 10th graders to be hoped to enroll? of and we are leveraging stick funds as well? >> another break point. we are leveraging not only city dollars, -- another great point. we are leveraging not only city dollars, as well as state dollars, as well as summer after school do

stanford university is working on the project that could help you give them some seconds of notice. >> predicting earthquakes. it's one of the holy grail for seismology and while the science is there yet the standard geophysicist as the next best thing. >> you have about the closest thing right now and what i would call it is, an earthquake whisper. >> lawrence is the cofounder of the quake catcher network. 2000 of these jeeps and soldiers are in the homes of volunteers all across the country. and the numbers are growing. the sensor connects to the computer and detects vibrations or even the smallest earthquake. her computer crunches the data and the plates, close it to stanford and they calculate the magnitude. >> the idea is that if you live far enough away from the epicenter, it will alert you before the shockwave store location. >> 10 seconds can mean the building is starting to fall down. 10 seconds could mean the elevator is stopping. 10 seconds could mean that the glossary. as broken. 10 seconds can mean a lot. >> on the day the system proved itself one of 4.0 earthquake hit be

stanford university researchers want you to help them predict when the next big one will strike. on the technology making it all possible. >> predicting earthquakes, it's one of the holy grails. while the science isn't there yet, jest se lawrence has the next best thing. >> you are about the closest thing to an earthquake whisperer. >> i would not say that. >> lawrence is the cofounder of the quake catcher network. 2,000 of these cheap sensors are in the homes and offices of volunteers all across the bay area and country and the numbers are growing. the sensor connects to your computer and detects vibration from even the smallest earthquake. your computer crunches the data, uploads it to stanford and they in turn calculate the epicenter. this all happens in an instant. if you live far enough away from the epicenter, they'll alert you before the shock wave hits your location, giving you extra seconds to get ready. >> well, ten seconds can mean the building is starting to fall down. 10 seconds could mean the elevator is stopping. 10 seconds could mean the glass right there is broke

he studied for his bachelor degree in taiwan but then went on stanford university in california to completes doctorate. after 12 years working on research and development in california's silicon valley, he went home to taiwan. if i compare taiwan and the u.s., i would say that taiwan is very much like the early days of the west coast in... in the u.s., the so-called gold... gold rush time... you know, era. that is, there are more opportunities here than in the states, i think. and... so many of us who came back here look for challenges, and we certainly found many challenges. narrator: in the 1980s, entrepreneurial returnees started more than 100 small firms, all with the support of the taiwanese government. science parks like hsinchu provided infrastructure and a space for experimentation and innovation. man: we kind of evolved into another technology-oriented stage. the science park is treated as a kind of... you call it the enterprise zone, similar to united states or in european countries. narrator: the parks also provided financial concessions for companies to locate there. tuan: the s

. >>> health news now, stanford university researchers think they have discovered a way that could helphe human body fight cancer cells. the research paired antibodies with a protein known as cd47. that combination has been known to slow the growth of tumors in mice in a wide variety of cancers. now researchers have to figure out if it is safe for humans. >>> a dirty job for firecrews in atlanta. look at this picture. they rescued a man stuck in the mud. there he is. he was walking near a muddy construction site on saturday when he began to sink. he was reportedly there for hours before someone called for help. the man suffered from hypothermia, but after a long shower, the man is apparently now just fine. very scary and strange. >> goodness. just a remarkable thing that he survived that. >>> we are seeing rain across the bay area right now. >> sandhya patel is back with the forecast. >> carolyn, let me show you the live doppler 7hd. it is no where near the intensity we saw earlier today. we still have some. itit is heading up to ukiah up the 101, and we are seeing light to moderate rai

. >>> health news now, stanford university researchers think they have discovered a way that could help the human body fight cancer cells. the research paired antibodies with a protein known as cd47. that combination has been known to slow the growth of tumors in mice in a wide variety of cancers. now researchers have to figure out if it is safe for humans. >>> a dirty job for firecrews in atlanta. look at this picture. they rescued a man stuck in the mud. there he is. he was walking near a muddy construction site on saturday when he began to sink. he was reportedly there for hours before someone called for help. the man suffered from hypothermia, but after a long shower, the man is apparently now just fine. very scary and strange. >> goodness. just a remarkable thing that he survived that. >>> we are seeing rain across the bay area right now. >> sandhya patel is back with the forecast. >> carolyn, let me show you the live doppler 7hd. it is no where near the intensity we saw earlier today. we still have some. itit is heading up to ukiah up the 101, and we are seeing light to moderate r

i want to thank the folks that helped us get this through as well as individuals from stanford university and other academic institutions interested in looking at what the impact would be in san francisco. it further states that the evaluation will be submitted to the board of supervisors within six months of the completion of the pilot program and it would include an analysis of data, the impact of the program on demand for services, considering the need for the program as it relates to access to justice. and it lays the recommendations for maximizing the benefit in the future. i know there are a number of members of the public that wish to speak. speaker cards.%ek"éi will call in numbef individuals. two minutes here? i would like to ask jim, a senior partner at morrison and foerster. he has been a legal giant for his advocacy in his leadership at bart. >> two minutes is harder than 20 minutes. i am deeply moved by the fact you are considering this bill. if you will be the first city in the united states that has directly addressed, as a municipal matter, the deprivation that the people

current economics professor at stanford university. it is wonderful to have you on the program. >> great to be with you. >> thank you for joining us. let's start with friday's jobs numbers. the unemployment rate 8.3%. 222 -- 227,000 new jobs created. what does it tell us. >> it says things are getting better but doesn't say things are god. the trends are the right direction no, doubt about it. we are seeing unemployment claims go down to levels that are almost consistent with a normal economy, almost. and the good thing, i think it is hidn in some of the data that is that the number of quits are exceeding layoffs. that's been true the last few months. when the economy is growing and labor market is healthy people feel comfortable about quitting and when we are going in to a recession layoffs go up. the fact the trend has gone in the the other direction that quits are above layoffs are a good sign. those things are positive. the problem is this, it will take a very long time for us to get back to a normal labor market, even at this pace

. >> reporter: the opportunity, brought to life by a study out of stanford university.g japan's energy policy would benefit from a silicon valley-like overhaul. >> a lot of japan's problems in electricity was that there was this large, integrated monopoly. if we think about what happened in silicon valley, it was a large, integrated monopoly of at&t broken up, that led the way to making the internet an open standard. and on top of this open standard internet, we have all this activity. >> reporter: japan is starting to open up to the idea of start-ups, especially said study co-author, green tech start-ups. >> very much active. they have to save the energy. >> reporter: a change that may end up bringing japan and silicon valley closer together. >> we'd like to invite you to watch our tsunami special, japan disaster one year later. you'll hear from those who lived through the tragedy and we'll talk about the lessons learned from there. plus, the tons of debris floating in our direction. that's sunday evening at 5:30. >>> let's bring in rob from our nbc bay area weather ce

pizzo is joining us from stanford university why he is a professor at the department. dr. pizzo will focus on the iom report and future areas of research. next we have dr. william maxnor, would you come up to the witness table, please, and same with ms. beasley and dr. serno. there you go. we welcome dr. william maxnor. he is at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. dr. maxnor comes today with significant experience in pain management research. christian beasley, the executive director of the national association will share with us her personal story with chronic pain, she was appointed to serve on the pain research coordinating committee at nih, the committee was formed to coordinator research. and next we have dr. john serno a professor at new york university medical center and practitioner at rusk rehabilitation medicine. the author of four books a pain will share his work with respect to treating chronic pain. i'll thank all of you for coming here, your statements will be made a part of the record in their entirety and i ask if you can sum up in five or seve

we have mous with stanford university. there are a number of confidentiality issues. there are a number of legal and compliance issues that figure into the use of data. we're interested in finding out better ways to know our students and our families and meet their needs. supervisor campos: a final question about one specific school if my colleagues do not mind. with horseman -- horace mann, what is happening with them next year? >> they are continuing with buena vista. the school is becoming bilingual immersion school. k-eight. you often grow it year by year. they had it through fifth grade. they grew it -- they will grow into the sixth grade and into the seventh and eighth grade. as they did that, we are phasing out a general education strand within the program. we are having a fully immersion bilingual school. supervisor campos: in terms of the leadership, the continuity going forward. >> i should let the assistant supervisor speak to that. >> good afternoon. what i think makes the zone work is is a collective effort. there are key set of high leverage priority are

. >> joe nation studies government pension costs at stanford university. >>> how does the deal that governmenters are getting compare to what most people get in the private sector? >> it's out of this world good. let's say you were making $100,000. you would retire at age 50 with $90,000 a year. >> those type of benefits go to public safety employees. robert sapien is a battalion fire chief? san jose. >> the average firefighter will leave here with an annual pension of about $90,000 a year. do you think that's justifiable to the taxpayer? >> that is what was negotiated over time. that's the agreement. we've certainly seen the need for a market correction and the benefit is going to come down. >> sapien says firefighters are willing to cut benefits from 90% of salary to 75%. the mayor wants to cap it at 65% for new hires and require current workers to pay more into the system. voters will decide on the mayor's plan this summer. the unions now plan to sue the city. >> we have come to the table. we have offered to give even more and all we've heard from the city is, here's our ballot initiative.

philosophy from oxford university and above and beyond that, she served as chief of staff for two stanford university presidents as well as dean of admissions. my god it would be interesting to hear what you talk about at night. >> all i know for sure is she would not have admitted me. i must say, your service is very much appreciated. but beyond that, the panel probably doesn't realize this. but yucca mountain has for all these decades essentially been in my district. and the early days, it strikes me that unless we learn from this most recent history we're bound to repeat the disaster that yucca mountain. i was fooling around with a figure earlier thinking that we spent something in the neighborhood of $9 billion in the yucca mountain catastrophe, it's closer to $14 billion as staff tells me. and in connection with that, in the early days of yucca, all of the politicians who want to solve this problem purportedly were supportive of yucca mountain as the location. especially when it was producing jobs in the local economic community. and then you move forward and lo and behold there is some controve

they scaled those companies up out of stanford university, yes, they had foreign-born founders but they did a tremendous aumgt for that region, obviously, and they've done a tremendous amount for the world in terms of changing how we all communicate and find information. the foreign born founder segment is something especially at the university -- it ties to the university, there are plenty people that are saying, we need to staple a green card to the back of diplomas or we need an entrepreneurship visa to attract this demographic of people. we really don't want them leaving our states. we don't want them going back to shanghai or dubai or anywhere else that they would go back to. we need to figure out a way to get these people to stay, to stay anywhere in our states. but don't leave, especially if we've educated you in our universities. we want these people to stay and innovate in the united states. and then the final point is women. and this is really near and dear to my heart. i was an investment banker for jpmorgan, i honestly believe that women are the undervalued asset class, that

aligned our other crimes against humanity continue in syria well this is me as you know st louis stanford university countries you know we are old and all these should be intervened into jacob if i can go back to you the west is supporting the opposition so there is nothing to do you only going to get me out are going to go back to washington jacob the west is supporting one side in a civil war so violence begets violence how can that possibly resolve itself i'm going to stay here and in washington and right now. well you know let's put things in perspective when the u.s. government kidnapped a canadian citizen in dulles airport and this was trying to decide what country to rendition to him to for the purpose of torture. did they select to do that they selected in that case the syrian regime so they have absolutely nothing against dictatorships as long as the dictatorship is doing what their their bidding we look at look at egypt's military dictatorship i mean you know that's one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world as well we've been funneling billions of dollars to that dictatorship for d

my proudest movements in life getting a full scholarship from south africa to stanford university. and winning a prones table for the maccabiah games known as the jewish olympics. glad you mentioned it. wow, it only took him 12 years to figure this out. i gather that wall street lost one of its best and brightest tonight. >> actually, two of those muppets, you know those two old guys i think they were goldman sachs clients. he said he had been there for 12 years, what kept him there all these years? an average golden worker with $400,000 to $500,000. you average that out 12 years assuming he was average which he was clearly above average from what he told us. he probably made $5 million or $6 million over the course of 12 years in the company. he had enough to keep him padded now that he's leaving. >> i can understand why people think this was a great revelation. but why after a few hours i think it became clear to anybody who thought well, this is a daring gesture by this young man might have given way by looking at it, yeah, he talks about his success playing ping-pong as well. s

. >> reporter: joe nation studies government pension costs at stanford university.es the deal that government workers are getting compare to what most people get in the private sector? >> it's out of this world good. let's say you're making $100,000. you would retire at aged 50 with $90,000 a year. >> reporter: those type of benefits go to public safety employees. robert sapien is a battalion fire chief in san jose. the average firefighters will leave here with an annual pension of about $90,000 a year. do you think that's justifiable to the tax payer? >> that is what was negotiated over time-- that's the agreement. we've certainly see the need for a market correction and the benefit's going to come down. >> reporter: sapien says firefighters are willing to cut benefits from 90% of salary to 75%. the mayor wants to cap it at 65% for new hires and require current workers to pay more into the system. voters will decide on the mayor's plan this summer. the unions now plan to sue the city. >> we have come to the table. we have offered to give even more and all we've hea

having started and led a mexican art export company, an investment bank we are an mba from stanford university, amy worked for mckenzie and company as a strategic consultant. amy also has public sector experience serving as a white house fellow and special assistant to the u.s. trade representative. amy will discuss key carc try trystitrys trysting trystics of high-impact entrepreneurs and offer practical policy solution. jeff wiedman is vice president of global business development for the procter & gamble company. he leads p&g's team of technology entrepreneurs to identify and deliver partnerships that drive innovation and create value across p&g and around the world. jeff's team manages mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, equity investments, outsourcing, technology and trademark lice e licensing and p&g's connect and develop open innovation efforts. jeff has also led development of the first ever comprehensive agreements between p&g and the public university systems of ohio and michigan to stream linl how academia and business work together to drive breakthrough innovations

scientists may have discovered a new way to fight cancer stanford university researchers report a singlesappear the research team transplanted human tumors to mice then treated those tumors with an antibody that blocks of protein called cd 47 the team reports that the antibody was successful in treating bladder brain breast: liver ovarian and prostate tumors the researchers hope to begin clinical trials in humans within the next two years we have heard a lot lately about post-traumatic trusted stress disorder especially in connection with the members of the military a leading authority is here in chicago here to remind us that not everyone who has been diagnosed with p t s d is dangerous or apt to go off the deep and robert jordan has the story >>the flashbacks and nightmares the notion that no one remembered and it comes over me and that was the core of the p t s d it's not just a mental malady that affects combat veterans it can hobble anyone who has been exposed to in enormous impact for a situation deeply imprinted in memory if you were a rape victim or a soldier coming home from war