Opening remarks by Connie Yowell, Director of Education, MacArthur Foundation
Opening Panel moderated by Brad Stone, New York Times
Gary E. Knell, President and CEO, Sesame Workshop
Mizuko Ito, Research Scientist, University of California, Irvine
James Steyer, CEO and Founder, Common Sense Media
Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix

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You can access your email even when you are not connected to the Internet.

Chat face-to-face with friends using built-in video chat.

Customize your inbox with themes to suit your mood.

Email replies are grouped into conversations with the original message.

Highlights from our recent music search feature launch event. http://www.google.com/music

In Washington, DC, Google announced the preliminary roll-out of automatic captioning in YouTube, an innovation that takes advantage of our speech recognition technology to turn the spoken word into text captions. We also announced that if you have a transcript of your video, you can upload it to YouTube and we’ll time the captions for you.

Over 60 accessibility leaders from the National Association of the Deaf, Gallaudet University, AAPD and other organizations joined us to be the first to learn about these new features.

Read more about the announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html