Laura Lane Bush is an American educator who served as the first lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 as the wife of George W. Bush,the 43rd president of the United States. Bush previously served as the first lady of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) is an American multinational tobacco company,with products sold in over 180 countries. The most recognized and best selling product of the company is Marlboro. Philip Morris International is often referred to as one of the companies comprising Big Tobacco.
Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is an Indian computer scientist,IT leader and educationalist. He is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He is a Padma Shri,Padma Bhushan,and Maharashtra Bhushan awardee. Indian computer magazine Dataquest placed him among the pioneers of India's IT industry. He was the founder and executive director of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and is currently working on developing exascale supercomputing for India.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama from his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States on January 20,2009,to December 31,2009. For his time as president-elect,see the presidential transition of Barack Obama;for a detailed account of his first months in office,see first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency;for a complete itinerary of his travels,see list of presidential trips made by Barack Obama.
Aneesh Paul Chopra is an American executive who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama and was at the White House through 2012. Chopra previously served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology under Governor Tim Kaine. Chopra was a candidate in 2013 for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He is the author of Innovative State:How New Technologies Can Transform Government (2014) and co-founder and president of CareJourney. In 2015 he joined Albright Stonebridge Group as a senior advisor.
Francis Sellers Collins is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda,Maryland,from 17 August 2009 to 19 December 2021,serving under three presidents.
Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power,while data with higher complexity may lead to a higher false discovery rate. Though used sometimes loosely partly due to a lack of formal definition,the best interpretation is that it is a large body of information that cannot be comprehended when used in small amounts only.
Todd Park is a Korean American entrepreneur and government executive. He served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and technology advisor for U.S. President Barack Obama. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Devoted Health.
Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics,scientific computing,scientific methods,processes,scientific visualization,algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from potentially noisy,structured,or unstructured data.
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is a competitive fellowship program that pairs top innovators from the private sector,non-profits,and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in months,not years. It was established in 2012 and has operated continuously since then. The program focuses on generating measurable results,using innovation techniques from private industry such as Lean Startup,Design Thinking,and Agile Development.
The White House BRAIN Initiative is a collaborative,public-private research initiative announced by the Obama administration on April 2,2013,with the goal of supporting the development and application of innovative technologies that can create a dynamic understanding of brain function.
Lisa Oudens Monaco is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor and national security official who has served as the 39th United States Deputy Attorney General since April 21,2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
White House Astronomy Night is an event first organized by the White House in conjunction with the Office of Science and Technology Policy to motivate interest in astronomy and science education. The original White House Astronomy Night was held in 2009 on the South Lawn. In 2010 the White House and the Office of Science and Technology Policy organized a similar event with help from Hofstra University,this time held on the National Mall. Between 2010 and 2014 annual events took place at the National Mall with coordination between Hofstra University and federal agencies including:the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum,NASA,and the National Science Foundation. In 2015 an event took place in June at the National Mall,and then back at the White House again on October 19.
The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is a central hub of research and education within University of California,Berkeley designed to facilitate data-intensive science and earn grants to be disseminated within the sciences. BIDS was initially funded by grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Sloan Foundation as part of a three-year grant with data science institutes at New York University and the University of Washington. The objective of the three-university initiative is to bring together domain experts from the natural and social sciences,along with methodological experts from computer science,statistics,and applied mathematics. The organization has an executive director and a faculty director,Saul Perlmutter,who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. The initiative was announced at a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy event to highlight and promote advances in data-driven scientific discovery,and is a core component of the National Science Foundation's strategic plan for building national capacity in data science.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is an organization established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan with an investment of 99 percent of the couple's wealth from their Facebook shares over their lifetime. The CZI is set up as a limited liability company (LLC) and is an example of philanthrocapitalism. CZI has been deemed likely to be "one of the most well-funded Philanthropies in human history". Chan and Zuckerberg announced its creation on 1 December 2015,to coincide with the birth of their first child. Priscilla Chan has said that her background as a child of immigrant refugees and experience as a teacher and pediatrician for vulnerable children influences how she approaches the philanthropy's work in science,education,immigration reform,housing,criminal justice,and other local issues.
Jeff Hammerbacher is a data scientist. He was chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera and later served on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
The President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) is a U.S. Government initiative to control and eliminate malaria,one of the leading global causes of premature death and disability. The initiative was originally launched by U.S. president George W. Bush in 2005,and has been continued by each successive U.S. president.
Deborah Leah Birx is an American physician and diplomat who served as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President Donald J. Trump from 2020 to 2021. Birx specializes in HIV/AIDS immunology,vaccine research,and global health. Starting in 2014,she oversaw the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program to support HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs in 65 countries. From 2014-2020,Birx was the United States global AIDS coordinator for presidents Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump and served as the United States special representative for global health diplomacy between 2015 and 2021. Birx was part of the White House Coronavirus Task Force from February 2020 to January 2021. In March 2021,Birx joined ActivePure Technology as Chief Medical and Science Advisor.
Michael John Kotsakas Kratsios is an American business executive and government official. He served as the fourth Chief Technology Officer of the United States at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this role,Kratsios served as President Donald Trump's top technology advisor. From July 10,2020 to January 20,2021,Kratsios was also the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
Cristin Ann Dorgelo is the senior advisor for management at the White House Office of Management and Budget. Dorgelo is the president emeritus of the Association of Science and Technology Centers,where she previously served as president and CEO. Dorgelo served as the chief of staff at the Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Barack Obama White House.
