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posted by n1 on Wednesday July 27 2016, @11:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-for-business dept.

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


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Thursday July 28 2016, @03:07PM

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday July 28 2016, @03:07PM (#381215) Journal

    The infantryman jumped in the ditch and lied down, trembling. His first WWIII action had begun. Over his head a wave of drones dropping amazon prime packages with damaged goods (bought by the Army as pristine stuff, of course) went to hit the targets. Soon the enemy would be overwhelmed by faulty usb cables and the first defections would occur.

    OK RIFLE! he shouted, so his smart rifle would boot, load the 4^H^H 3 directives, init the shoots database and let him fire. The rifle blipped in reply, at the fourth attempt. Not bad.

    A second blip alerted him that his one-trigger-pull/one-shoot personal patent license would expire on monday.

    "If I ever make it that far", he thought, as he was forced out of the ditch by a Time photographer who needed his help: "There, lad, your silhouette is right against the sun, perfect! Now we wait for the sniper...".

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