President Barack Obama has named Megan Smith, a top Google executive who helped oversee some of the search giant’s most daring research, as the country’s next chief technology officer. Smith’s arrival in Washington caps off a lengthy career at Google. With the Google[x] team, Smith worked on the company’s “SolveForX” community effort and its “WomenTechmakers” diversity initiative. Before that, the new CTO was Google’s vice president of new business development, and her work contributed to the explosive growth of Google Maps and Google Earth. Read more via Politico
