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Dean Kaymen should be the CTO.
Regardless of the many useful and brilliant inventions that have come from this man, he started an international competition in the field of robotics that has been an inspiration for thousands of young people.
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This site not useful
Because anyone can vote from any where as often as he/she can refresh the page. Waste of time. At least use the ip address to ensure only US citizens vote and vote only once per IP address.
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Strengthen growing companies; Stop Funding $ to old Failures
The Finance companies, GM and the automakers, and other failures were part of an old era. Let them fail. The idea that “they’re too big to fail”, has got to stop.
We are in a new era now. Strengthen growing companies; if we give $$ to GM and the Financials, it will just prolong the agony and we'll never see that money again.1 vote -
Generate oversight for the peer review system
What happens when two groups of qualified scientists disagree on fundamental scientific principles? What happens when research is rejected because it casts doubt upon the prior work of the peer reviewer? Who with authority is actively scanning the "fringe sciences" in an attempt to discover scientific talent that's been obstructed from publication because their new paradigm is too unconventional?
In the history of science, it's clear that many ideas that were once considered heretical are now common knowledge. Sometimes, these people are blocked from being published in peer review journals due to institutional or ethical issues. If we know that…
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End non competition legislation protecting cell providers
Force US cellular providers to innovate and improve services to the level of other countries by repealing mandates that protect them from competition.
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Be a full cabenet member and Exec branch IT department head
A CTO/CIO that is only a policy advisor with no department is pretty easy to marginalize in an organization as large as the US executive branch. For this reason the position must be a full cabenet member and department head with a staff, budget and mission.
The position must be the head of an executive branch Department of Information Technologies with a title like Secretary of the Department of Information Technologies rather than CTO or CIO. The department must have administrative and executive responsibility over the full life cycle of executive branch information systems, providing advice, expertise, implementation, operations monitoring…
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Abolish the use of legacy hardware and software
Forcing companies, manufacturers, and individuals to relinquish their archaic hardware and software will produce a temporary spike in hardware sales, as well as ensure that our modern, sophisticated standards are universal.
Banning the sale and resale of outdated hardware like IDE hard disks, floppy diskettes, USB 1.1, 32-bit processors, and other outmoded equipment ensures that consumers are buying top-of-the-line hardware with longevity. It also frees developers from being forced to shoehorn in functionality for equipment that should no longer exist.
Forcing the adoption of modern software standards like FAT32 formatting, current-generation Web browsers, external stylesheets in Web sites, XML-compliant document…
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Changes to Internet
There will always be remote communities that will be difficult to provide with a high bandwidth. I suggest crawlers that will cache the most frequently accessed web pages and broadcast them over satellite.
In remote communities a single antenna could receive the broadcast and store the cached content on the server for whole community to access. Non-cached content could be downloaded through landlines.
Another change to the internet could be scheduled downloads (on request) to servers in low demand periods with expiration date and time.
Kind regards,
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change military spending from offensive to defensive
Rather than creating weapons of mass destruction, let's invest in defensive tech to detect and stop attacks, especially here at home!
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Bring government technology up to date
Most of government agencies use outdated computers with outdated software. In some cases, it is Windows 2000 and MS Office 2000 with respective hardware. Upgrading to modern equipment will increase productivity of government officials as well as reduce their health problems such as eye fatigue because CRT monitors with 60Hz refresh rate are the day before yesterday.
Such a modernization plan will also require adequate training for the government staff as migrating to several generations of software ahead will create quite a steep learning curve. While this plan is rather costly in the short run, it will also create the…
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Modular cars: Encourage the auto industry to build them
US automakers could revolutionize the industry by abandoning the emphasis on after-market sales of auto parts in favor of designing and building modular autos: drive module, body module, suspension module, interior module, and so on.
Of course, mechanics would have to retool, too. just like the blacksmiths did -- not a bad thing, given the advantages of CHEAP reliable and efficient automobiles.
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