Posts Tagged ‘innovation
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The United State Of Women
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Together, we are stronger. Together we can change tomorrow. Stand with us: theunitedstateofwomen.org #StateOfWomen
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The President’s Nerdy Day
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Dr. Chenming Hu from University of California Berkeley
President Barack Obama speaks before awarding the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Established in 1959, the National Medal of Science recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. The National Medal of Technology and Innovation, created in 1980, recognizes those who have made contributions to America’s competitiveness, quality of life, and helped strengthen the country’s technological workforce
Dr. Nancy Ho from Green Tech America, Inc. and Purdue University
Dr. Armand Paul Alivisatos from the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Stanley Falkow from Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Mary-Claire King from University of Washington
Dr. Jonathan Rothberg from 4catalyzer Corporation and Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Michael Artin of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Rakesh K. Jain from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Geraldine Richmond from University of Oregon
Dr. Simon Levin from Princeton University
Dr. Arthur Gossard from University of California
Dr. Robert Fischell from University of Maryland
Dr. Mark Humayun from University of Southern California
President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives to deliver a speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the United Nations Compound in Nairobi. President Obama’s visit to Kenya is focused on trade and economic issues, as well as security and counterterrorism cooperation
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President Barack Obama and Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta take part in a roundtable with young businesspeople at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. He told African entrepreneurs in Kenya on Saturday they could help counter violent ideologies and drive growth in Africa, and said governments had to help by ensuring the rule of law was upheld and by tackling corruption
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In his first visit as president to Kenya, President Obama struck a relentlessly upbeat tone nyti.ms/1OsJjV7 http://t.co/GJhGTX7wKo
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The New York Times (@nytimes) July 25, 2015****
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President Barack Obama looks at a mobile payment platform and solar exhibit during the Power Africa Innovation Fair
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President Barack Obama, left, looks at a solar powered lamp during a tour of the Power Africa Innovation Fair
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President Barack Obama participates in a wreath laying ceremony in Nairobi, at Memorial Park in honor of the victims of the deadly 1998 bombing at the U.S. Embassy
President Barack Obama inspects the honor guard after arriving to meet with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta at the State House
President Barack Obama shake hands with Kenya’s Chief of Defence Forces Samson Mwathathe
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President Barack Obama is escorted into a bilateral meeting by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the State House
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President Barack Obama and President Uhuru Kenyatta participate in a joint press conference
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Obama pushes African nations to treat LGBT people equally ti.me/1HQfb4u
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TIME.com (@TIME) July 25, 2015****
President Barack Obama smiles as he is shown wooden art made using a laser etcher by James Gyre during his tour of TechShop, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. President Obama traveled to Pittsburgh and visited TechShop, a fabrication and prototyping studio open to the public via paid memberships, to deliver remarks on the economy
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President Barack Obama makes remarks after touring Bakery Square’s TechShop, a membership-based manufacturing workshop in Pittsburgh, that’s a model for the kind of sharing of resources he wants to see more of. The president announced a plan to open the doors of more than 700 federal labs across the country to give innovators access to more than $5 billion in equipment, research and resources to develop new technologies. Additionally, he outlined a $150 million investment in research to support the Materials Genome Investment, a public-private endeavor that aims to reduce the time it takes to develop new materials that can be used in advanced manufacturing
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FACT: More businesses are actively considering bringing production back from China to the U.S. #MadeInAmerica http://t.co/AQP06akS6S
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 17, 2014****
"Eisenhower worked with Democrats to build an Interstate Highway System. Research and development didn't used to be partisan." —Obama
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White House Live (@WHLive) June 17, 2014****
President Barack Obama is shown an example of a 3-D printer by Andy Leer
President Barack Obama speaks about the capture of Libyan militant suspected of killing Americans in Benghazi
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James O’Toole: President Obama Speaks In Pittsburgh About Technology
On a stop at Bakery Square’s TechShop in Larimer this afternoon, President Barack Obama announced a plan to give fledgling businesses expanded access to high-tech resources whether from the government or through wider sharing of private and university-based data and facilities. Administration officials said the access to expensive equipment and facilities is designed to lower the barriers to innovation. The president announced the initiative after a tour of TechShop, a membership-based manufacturing workshop that’s a model for the kind of sharing of resources he wants to promote. Coming the day after Mr. Obama announced an executive order to ban discrimination against members of the LGBT community in federal contracting, the innovation order was one more example of the administration’s efforts to pursue policy initiatives that don’t depend on action by Congress.
During his visit, the president also described new manufacturing investment commitments from 90 mayors cross the country, as well as a plan to provide private-sector innovators with access to expensive federal equipment such as wind tunnels at NASA and supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The plan would provide access to more than $5 billion worth of research, prototyping and testing equipment at more than 700 federal facilities. The president’s plan aims to give innovators – dubbed “makers” by the White House — access to equipment that no individual or small business could afford on its own, said Jeff Zients, director of the National Economic Council. “[We are] talking about using spare capacity when it’s available to give access to local makers and entrepreneurs,” he said. Mr. Zients said the president’s plan does not require legislative approval and has no cost to the federal government.
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President Barack Obama points to a replica of the Presidential seal that Terry Sandin made during a tour of TechShop
President Barack Obama takes a drink as he listens to a question
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"We've got $2 trillion worth of deferred maintenance." —Obama on why Congress should invest in fixing our roads and bridges #RebuildAmerica
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 17, 2014****
"Our middle class was built in part because unions were able to negotiate weekends & overtime & benefits." —Obama http://t.co/toYHjPHecg
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 17, 2014****
President Barack Obama tours TechShop Pittsburgh with Matt Verlinich, General Manager of TechShop Pittsburgh
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"I want to make sure that if you work hard in this country…you can make it." —Obama on investing in American manufacturing #MadeInAmerica
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 17, 2014****
"I'm a big believer in our kids making stuff." —President Obama at @TechShop: wh.gov/maker-faire #NationOfMakers http://t.co/0V9s7lO70O
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 17, 2014****
President Barack Obama shakes hands with workers
President Barack Obama holds up a wooden snowflake made on a laser etcher
President Barack Obama responds to questions from workers
2:15 ET: President Obama awards the National Medals of Science and the National Medals of Technology and Innovation
White House Live * CBS * CNN
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President Obama: “I am proud to honor these inspiring American innovators. They represent the ingenuity and imagination that has long made this Nation great – and they remind us of the enormous impact a few good ideas can have when these creative qualities are unleashed in an entrepreneurial environment.”
See the list of recipients here
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All those syllables…..
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2:30 ET On her last day as Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton thanks her colleagues at the State Department
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snapper-in-chief
“The pictures better be good”
President Barack Obama points at photographers during the reading of the citation for Steven Sasson, for the invention of the digital camera, during presentation for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at a ceremony November 17 in the East Room of the White House
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