Thursday, November 6, 2008
I’m Sorry Mr. Yang. Your Name Just Didn’t Come Up …
The short list of candidates for President Elect Barack Obama’s cabinet-level CTO may be quite a bit shorter than Washington insiders claim. In the run-up to Tuesday’s election, Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Princeton professor Ed Felten and Amazon CEO Jeffrey Bezos were among the names of those who might be considered for the job. But it’s beginning to look more and more like the Obama camp already has someone in mind for the position: Julius Genachowski.




