SpaceNews reports that Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that Jeff Bezos and Neil deGrasse Tyson will join the Defense Innovation Advisory Board.
Carter has asked the board to identify private-sector practices that the Pentagon could adopt. A first round of recommendations is expected in October.
The full list of current board members is:
· Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, Alphabet Inc.
· Jeff Bezos, president, chairman and CEO, Amazon Inc.
· Adam Grant, professor, Wharton School of Business
· Danny Hillis, computer theorist & co-founder, Applied Inventions
· Reid Hoffman, co-founder, LinkedIn, and partner, Greylock Partners
· Walter Isaacson, president & CEO, Aspen Institute, former TIME magazine editor and Steve Jobs biographer
· Eric Lander, president and founding director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
· Marne Levine, chief operating officer, Instagram
· J. Michael McQuade, senior vice president for science and technology, United Technologies
· William McRaven, chancellor, University of Texas System
· Milo Medin, vice president, Access Services, Google Capital
· Richard Murray, professor, California Institute of Technology
· Jennifer Pahlka, founder, Code for America
· Cass Sunstein, professor, Harvard Law School
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Dunbal on Thursday July 28 2016, @12:57AM
My money is on "not". When you fill a room full of personalities- especially those who might be used to getting their own way one or another, you do not obtain the sum of their intelligence. If you're LUCKY you obtain the average, but since humans are not very good communicators it's much more likely you obtain sub-optimal results. Committees are good at deflecting and avoiding blame and responsibility. They are not good at innovation.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:24AM
That list reads like the "about us" page of the southern poverty law center. A bunch of jewz and a handful of token goys.
The whole thing smacks of an initiation ritual for Bilderburg hopefuls.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @04:21AM
Looks like four top-notch technical innovators far outnumbered by bureaucratic/financial/political tie-guys.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:25AM
When metals are alloyed, the alloy can melt at a lower temperature than any of its components.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2, Funny) by Dunbal on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:32AM
When humans are alloyed, they all die.