Edward W. Felten serves as Deputy Unites States Chief Technology Officer, within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ed comes to the White House from Princeton University, where he is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and the founding Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. Before rejoining the Princeton faculty, Ed served as the first Chief Technologist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and worked with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. Ed has published more than 100 papers and two books on technology law and policy. Ed is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow at the Association for Computing Machinery. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Physics with Honors from the California Institute of Technology and his master’s and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.

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