I like Vint Cerf for that position, he has experience in both the public and private sectors and his experience goes back very much pre-internet hype. And maybe he could help make IPV6 adoption really happen.
Felten might not be bad, I don't recall what he's done in the private sector though. Ballmer and Bezos are both more business-dudes than CTO's. Big names, yeah, but not really technologists. Besides, Microsoft has had its share of being sued by the government and Bezos, while a visionary in all sorts of ways, steadfastly refused to be profitable, always going for growth over execution. A fascinating embodiment of the first mover advantage theory but I'm not sure if I want that in a national CTO. Judah On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good idea. I wonder if Ballmer or Bezos would accept. Tough call to abandon > the company in which you own billions in stock in a bad economy. > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Gruss wrote: > >> Good for us techies!! >> Among the candidates who would be considered for the job, say >> Washington insiders, are Vint Cerf, Google's (GOOG) "chief internet >> evangelist," who is often cited as one of the fathers of the Internet; >> Microsoft (MSFT) chief executive officer Steve Ballmer; Amazon (AMZN) >> CEO Jeffrey Bezos; and Ed Felten, a prominent professor of computer >> science and public affairs at Princeton University. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275960 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
