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President Barack Obama has named a technology panel and on Monday unveiled is included. Among the computing industry leaders President Obama summoned in the panel are also Google's Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt – an early supporter of the Obama campaign - and Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie.
The 20-member advisory council is called the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The panels three co-chairmen are John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Eric Lander, a Human Genome Project leader and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harold Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and former head of the National Institutes of Health.
The panel, which includes several officials from top universities and technology companies, will act as an advisory team for President Obama on science-related issues and help the presidential administration formulate policies.
"This council represents leaders from many scientific disciplines who will bring a diversity of experience and views," the U.S. President said in a statement. "I will charge Pcast with advising me about national strategies to nurture and sustain a culture of scientific innovation."
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is meant to help the U.S. President on science-related problems and was founded by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
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