Obama’s CTO nominee offers some thoughts - Washington Wire - WSJ
May 19, 2009
President Barack Obama’s pick to be the nation’s first chief technology officer, Virginia Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra, made his first public remarks on what he’d do in the new post during a Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday.
“We will apply the most innovative technologies to our most important challenges – bending the health care cost curve, optimizing the energy grid to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, delivering an educational system focused on student excellence with special emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, protecting our nation’s critical infrastructure, and building the high-wage, high-growth jobs in all corners of our country,” Chopra said during the hearing. (He was, as might guess from from that mouthful, reading prepared remarks...)
President Barack Obama’s pick to be the nation’s first chief technology officer, Virginia Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra, made his first public remarks on what he’d do in the new post during a Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday.
“We will apply the most innovative technologies to our most important challenges – bending the health care cost curve, optimizing the energy grid to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, delivering an educational system focused on student excellence with special emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, protecting our nation’s critical infrastructure, and building the high-wage, high-growth jobs in all corners of our country,” Chopra said during the hearing. (He was, as might guess from from that mouthful, reading prepared remarks...)
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