White House Names Google's Megan Smith As CTO

itwbennett writes that, as expected, The White House has named long-time Google executive Megan Smith as the government's new CTO, in charge of improving technology and the use of data across agencies. Smith most recently served as vice president at Google's tech lab, Google[x]. She previously served as CEO of PlanetOut, helped design early smartphone technologies at General Magic and worked on multimedia products at Apple Japan in Tokyo. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, and just might be, as noted in a previous Slashdot post, the first US CTO worthy of the title. Also on Thursday, the White House named Alexander Macgillivray, a former general counsel and head of public policy at Twitter, as deputy U.S. CTO.

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Re:Well that is goofy

[bobbied]

CTO of what is the question. You do understand that there is no CTO position in the Federal government right? They just invented this for her. She will have ZERO authority to make any day to day technology decisions.

Dig a bit and figure out why they are doing this. This is about politics, not fixing anything more than the next election.