Obama Appoints Non-Tech Guy As CTO

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "President Barack Obama has named his chief technology officer, and the appointee is not a Silicon Valley name like so many predicted. He is Aneesh Chopra. As the Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, his job has been to 'leverage technology in government reform, promote Virginia's innovation agenda, and foster technology-related economic development with a special emphasis on entrepreneurship.' But Chopra's not a tech guy. Before he got his secretary job in 2005, he was a managing director at the Advisory Board Company, a public-market health care think tank, as well as an angel investor." O'Reilly Radar is running an article discussing why Chopra is a good choice for federal CTO.

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Say it ain't so, Obama

[Henry V .009]

What, does this mean that he isn't the Messiah after all? As usual, the Onion gets it right: The Media having trouble finding Right Angle on Obama's Double-Homicide

Horrible

[Anonymous Coward]

I understand that Obama appointed a Secretary of State that doesn't know how to take shorthand, and a Defense Secretary that's never been a general and Treasury Secretary that's never discovered any buried treasure, not even once.

Ooooh, I'm so mad!

Please note that the average UID of the people making uninformed (didn't read TFA) anti-Obama comments here is over 1200000. Coincidence or astroturf?

Re:I smell astroturf

[DigiShaman]

You're the one that's Astroturfing.

Did it ever occur to you that Slashdot is mainly left leaning and thus those on the right want to remain anonymous? For good reason: We are persecuted by a bunch of Stalinists. Some of us (such as myself) actually have the balls to stand up and tell it like it is... Obama is WORSE than Carter. And sure, we will be modded as a troll (or worse if given the option), but at least I understand that life is too short to care about what others think about me. I only care about the truth, and how THAT affects the world!