Megan Smith
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Megan Smith | |
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3rd Chief Technology Officer of the United States | |
In office September 4, 2014 – January 20, 2017 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Todd Park |
Succeeded by | Michael Kratsios |
Personal details | |
Born | October 21, 1964 |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS) |
Megan J. Smith (born October 21, 1964)
Early life and education
Smith grew up in Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario,[13][circular reference] and spent many summers at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, where her mother, Joan Aspell Smith, was director of the Chautauqua Children's School.[14] Smith graduated from City Honors School in 1982.[15] She went on to receive her S.B. in 1986 and an S.M. in 1988, both in mechanical engineering, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed her master's thesis work at the MIT Media Lab. She was a member of the MIT student team that designed, built and raced a solar car 2000 miles across the Australian outback in the first cross-continental solar car race.[16]
Career
Following MIT, Smith worked at a variety of start-ups, including
In 2003, she joined Google,
In 2014, she left Google to become the 3rd U.S. CTO. In that role, Smith recruited top tech talent to serve across government collaborating on pressing issues, from AI, data science and open source, to inclusive economic growth, entrepreneurship, structural inequalities, government tech innovation capacity, STEM/STEAM engagement, workforce development, and criminal justice reform. Her teams focused on broad capacity building by co-creating all-hands-on-deck initiatives, including the public-private program TechHire, the Computer Science for All initiative, and the Image of STEM campaigns.
She is an active proponent of STEM education and innovation.[34]
Her appeal for technologists to work in public service at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing inspired several Harvard University students to create the national non-profit organization Coding it Forward which creates data science and technology internship program for undergraduate and graduate students in United States federal agencies.[35]
Smith was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for leading technological innovation teams and efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM industries both nationally and globally, and elected a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018.
Recognition
- World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2001, 2002[36]
- Listed by Out magazine in 2012[37] and 2013,[38] as one of the 50 most powerful LGBT people in the United States
- Reuters Digital Vision Program Fellow at Stanford, 2003-2004[39]
- Top 25 Women on the Web, 2000[40]
- Upside Magazine 100 Digital Elite, 1999 and 2000[41]
- Advertising Age i.20, 1999[42]
- GLAAD Interactive Media Award for Internet Leadership, 1999[43]
- Charging Buffalo Award, 2015[44]
- Matrix Hall of Fame, 2015[45]
- Business Insider 23 Most Powerful LGBTQ+ People in Tech, 2019[46]
Personal life
Smith married technology columnist
References
- ^ "Megan Smith". Computer Hope. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ "The Women at Google". Cubicle Coach. Marie Claire. March 12, 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Women Techmakers". Retrieved 2018-08-16.
- The Advocate. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Boss, Suzie (Fall 2010). "Do No Evil". Stanford Social Innovation Review. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Corporation elects new members". MIT News. June 3, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ "Advisory Committee On Voluntary Foreign Aid Members". United States Agency for International Development. 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ Smith, Megan (November 10, 2012). "Introducing: The Malala Fund". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Vital Voices. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ Scola, Nancy (September 4, 2014). "White House names Google's Megan Smith the next Chief Technology Officer of the United States". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ Howard, Alex (September 4, 2014). "Google[x] VP Megan Smith busts Silicon ceiling as first female US CTO". Tech Republic. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
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(help) - ^ "Megan Smith". LinkedIn.[dead link]
- ^ Mabbett, Andy (6 June 2015). "File:Megan Smith voice.flac". Retrieved 21 June 2015 – via WikiMedia Commons.
- ^ Anderson, Dale (September 4, 2014). "Obama names City Honors graduate U.S. chief technology officer". The Buffalo News. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ Kresse, William A. "Distinguished Alumni". City Honors School at Fosdick-Masten Park. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ ISSN 1099-274X.
- ^ Langway, Lynn; Pamela Kruger; P. B. Gray (March 1, 2001). "25 Women Who Are Making It Big In Small Business". CNN. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ a b Hopkins, Jim (June 21, 2000). "PlanetOut CEO taps gay market Exec becomes power player in elusive $450B industry". USA Today. p. 7B. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Kuczynski, Alex (16 November 2000). "2 Companies In Gay Media Plan to Merge". The New York Times. p. 4. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Hafner, Katie (September 3, 2003). "3 succeed in computer field, but women still lag". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Hardy, Quentin (24 February 2009). "Re-engineering Google.org". Forbes. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Woollacott, Emma (February 7, 2012). "'Solve for X' to tackle world's biggest problems". TG Daily. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ "Women Techmakers". www.womentechmakers.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
- ^ "Office of the Chief Technology Officer". White House.
- ^ "The Lost History: Help Us Find the Declaration of Sentiments". whitehouse.gov. 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ^ "Team". shift7. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
- ^ Arnold, Jenna (2017-11-08). "First Female CTO Of The U.S. Megan Smith Hopes Tech's History Can Repeat Itself". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2013-08-19. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
- ^ MIT News Office (June 3, 2011). "Corporation elects new members". MIT News. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ "Meet Our Team | Staff, Board, and Advisory Council". CFK Africa. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ Smith, Megan (November 10, 2014). "Distinguished Fellowships - Carroll L. Wilson". MIT. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- Wired News. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ "Megan Smith". Semester at Sea. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ^ Smith, Megan (October 11, 2013). "'Passion, Adventure and Heroic Engineering'... and Talent Inclusion". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ Kelman, Steve. "Students recruiting students into federal tech". FCW. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
- ^ McCluskey, Eileen (2007-10-15). "Megan Smith '86, SM '88". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
- ^ Out.com editors (17 April 2012). "The Power List: MEGAN SMITH". Out. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Out.com editors (10 April 2013). "The Power List: MEGAN SMITH". Out. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ "Digital Vision Fellowship". tow.com. 2003-09-11. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
- Wired News. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ "Steve Jobs Edges Out Bill Gates for Top Billing Among UPSIDE's 1999 Elite 100; ..." (Press release). November 15, 1999. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Kate (November 1, 1999). "i.20: PlanetOut's Megan J. Smith". Advertising Age. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ Naquin, Robert J.; Naquin-Delain, Marsha, eds. (6 August 1999). "GLAAD Honors PlanetOut & Geocities". cruisin' the web. Ambush magazine. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
- ^ Thompson, Melissa (14 August 2015). "SAVE THE DATE: 37th Annual Buffalo Nite to Honor Megan Smith Sept. 16". WashingtonExec. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
- ^ "MATRIX HALL OF FAME". NYWIC. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ Leskin, Paige (2 June 2019). "The 23 most powerful LGBTQ+ people in tech". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
- ^ a b Wallace, Benjamin (15 July 2014). "Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work?". New York.
- ^ a b Swisher, Kara (10 November 2008). "My Four Weddings, How getting gay married became an Olympic sport for me". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
- ^ Schubarth, Cromwell (September 16, 2011). "Google working on social, news reader". San Jose Business Journal.
- Scranton Times (Obituary). 24 January 2012 – via Legacy.com.
- ^ Swisher, Kara (2017). "Kara Swisher Biography and Ethics Statement". re/code. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017.
Further reading
- Heney, Paul (14 January 2019). "Leadership in Engineering: Megan Smith's vision of technology for all". Design World. Retrieved 22 March 2019.