![IBM's David Ferrucci and Google's Anthony Levandowski present to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in Washington, DC, on Friday [image courtesy TVWorldwide].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/pcast.png "IBM's David Ferrucci and Google's Anthony Levandowski present to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in Washington, DC, on Friday [image courtesy TVWorldwide].")
Data and computing were front and center at today’s meeting of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in Washington, DC, with U.S. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Todd Park summarizing the Administration’s rollout this week of a “digital roadmap” seeking to take advantage of existing government data repositories — and David Ferrucci, head of IBM’s Watson project, and Anthony Levandowski, product manager for Google’s self-driving car technology, delivering talks about the fundamental advances being enabled by their teams’ work (more following the link).
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![Humantenna [image courtesy Microsoft Research via New Scientist].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mg21428645.jpeg "Humantenna [image courtesy Microsoft Research via New Scientist].")
