Treuille Discusses How US Can Tap Potential of Golden Triangle Technologies

Byron SpiceThursday, June 17, 2010

Adrien Treuille, assistant professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, was among the top U.S. scientists who participated in a panel discussion on how the U.S. government can tap the full potential of three "Golden Triangle" technologies: information technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology.

The workshop, organized by the President's Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), was part of an effort to gather expert and public input on how the federal government can best use its resources so that these promising technologies can provide the greatest possible economic benefits to society. PCAST refers to IT, biotech and nanotech collectively as the Golden Triangle.

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) sponsored a webcast of the discussion, which has been archived and is available for viewing here.

In addition to Treuille, participants included Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google Inc., Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Aneesh Chopra, associate director of technology for the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Ideas regarding the advancement of Golden Triangle technologies can be submitted anytime on the OpenPCAST website. Among the topics of interest to PCAST are: predicting where basic research is taking us; determining where knowledge gaps remain; finding roadblocks that impede commercialization; identifying infrastructure necessary for testing; prototyping and manufacturing breakthrough technologies; and determining where federal support for Golden Triangle technologies is most appropriate.

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