White House Picks Princeton Professor as Deputy U.S. CTO

The White House is adding one of the tech policy world's most valuable players to it's roster: Princeton Professor Ed Felten. The White House announced that Felten will join the Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy U.S. chief technology officer. In his decades long career, Felten has carved out a role as one of the world's top thinkers on computer security and privacy -- tackling technically difficult topics and translating them for Washington insiders.