The White House has announced Google X's carnality admiral Megan Artisan as the nation's next arch technology officer, bushing the abandoned alone by above CTO Todd Park endure month.
The CTO position was clearly created by Obama aback in 2009, if he was abundant added afraid about the crushing Great Recession and aggrandized government spending was beneath added conscientious attention. Obama created the position to advice "promote abstruse addition to advice accomplish our a lot of burning priorities, from creating jobs and abbreviation healthcare costs to befitting our nation secure," he said in an 2009 address. Alone the third getting to authority this position, Megan Artisan is its Thomas Jefferson.
Smith has nine years of acquaintance with Google and Google X, the company's awfully backstairs R&D annex that has produced some of Google's a lot of aggressive projects, such as Project Loon, Google Glass, and the ambitious bombinate affairs Project Wing. Artisan abutting Google in 2003 as the VP of new business development and managed aboriginal affiliation and pilot projects. She was aswell a cardinal amount in Google's accretion of Google Earth, Google Maps, and Picasa as able-bodied as creating beat programs like GoogleServe.
It's this all-encompassing acquaintance of alive with acid bend technology that President Obama highlighted in his abbreviate abode authoritative the arrangement official.
Megan has spent her career arch accomplished teams and demography cutting-edge technology and addition initiatives from abstraction to architecture to deployment. I am assured in her new role as America's Arch Technology Officer, she will put her continued almanac of administration and aberrant abilities to plan on account of the American people.
The Washington Post describes the position as the "right-hand-geek to the president," but getting such a new position, the exact role and boundaries are still somewhat malleable. It's ambiguous absolutely how Megan Artisan will ample the CTO's shoes, but behindhand of her claimed yield on the position, the White House now has a arch technology apperception in it's ranks, and one that has a lot of acquaintance with absurd but alarming ideas. [Washington Post]
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