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PCAST is the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The council follows a tradition of presidential advisory panels focused on science and technology that dates back to the administrations of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman.

President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13226 to form PCAST on September 30, 2001. The council had been originally established by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 to enable the office of the president to receive advice from the private and academic sectors on technology, scientific research priorities, and math and science education.

Since its creation PCAST has been expanded and currently consists of 35 members plus the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy who serves as the Council's Co-Chair. The council members, distinguished individuals appointed by the President, are drawn from industry, education, and research institutions, and other nongovernmental organizations. The council is administered by an Executive Director.

Current members include:

• Co-Chairman John H. Marburger, III (Director, Office of Science Technology Policy)
• Co-Chairman E. Floyd Kvamme (Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)
• F. Duane Ackerman (Chairman and CEO, Bellsouth Corporation)
• Paul M. Anderson (Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy)
• Charles J. Arntzen (Florence Ely Nelson Regent's Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State University)
• Norman R. Augustine (Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation)
• Carol Bartz (Executive Chairman, Autodesk, Inc.)
• M. Kathleen Behrens (Managing Director, Robertson Stephens & Co.)
• Erich Bloch (Corporate R&D Management Consultant, The Washington Advisory Group]
• Robert A. Brown (President, Boston University)
• G. Wayne Clough (President, Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Michael S. Dell (Chairman of the Board, Dell, Inc.)
• Nance Dicciani (President & CEO, Honeywell International Specialty Materials)
• Raul J. Fernandez (CEO, ObjectVideo)
• Marye Anne Fox (Chancellor, University of California, San Diego)
• Martha Gilliland (Senior Fellow, RAND: Council for AID to Education)
• Ralph Gomory (President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
• Bernadine Healy (Health and Medicine Columnist, U.S. News and World Report)
• Robert J. Herbold (Executive Vice President, Microsoft Corporation)
• Richard H. Herman (Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Martin J. Jischke (President, Purdue University)
• Fred Kavli (Founder and Chairman, Kavli Foundation)
• Bobbie Kilberg (President, Northern Virginia Technology Council)
• Walter E. Massey (President, Morehouse College)
• E. Kenneth Nwabueze (CEO, SageMetrics)
• Steven G. Papermaster (Chairman, Powershift Ventures)
• Luis M. Proenza (President, University of Akron)
• Daniel A. Reed (Director, Renaissance Computing Institute)
• Hector de Jesus Ruiz (Chairman and CEO, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)
• George Scalise (President, Semiconductor Industry Association)
• Stratton D. Sclavos (Chairman, President and CEO of VeriSign)
• John Brooks Slaughter (President and CEO, The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering)
• Joseph M. Tucci (Chairman, President and CEO, EMC Corporation)
• Charles M. Vest (President Emeritus and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
• Robert E. Witt (President, University of Alabama)
• Tadataka Yamada (Chairman, Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline)

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