Google 的CEO Eric Schmidt已经将他的名字从CTO政府职务候选名单里去除，新当选的总统贝拉克·奥巴马曾承诺要组建CTO（首席技术执行官）。

在CNBC的"Mad Money with Jim Cramer(吉姆·克莱默 我为钱狂）"的节目里，现任奥巴马经济顾问的Schmidt告诉主持人如果
他若被选中，他会放弃这个工作。

Schmidt说”我喜欢在Google工作，在这里我也很快乐，所以答案将是NO"。

如果Schmidt果真放弃竞选奥巴马在竞选纲领上宣布的职务的话，这为很多观察家发出了一个清晰的信号---科技将会列为新政府
的首要任务。

不过对这个职位的具体形式仍不清楚。奥巴马在他的科技计划里谈到,CTO的任务就是确保我们的政府以及其所有部门为21世纪建立一个适宜的基础结构，正确的政策和良好的和、服务.

但是奥巴马也勾划出了一个雄心勃勃的科技计划，誓将网络中立性进行立法，改善宽带部署，保护网络隐私并解决一系列其他问题，同时也提出CTO在影响政府决策时扮演多重要的角色的问题。

”这就像是一个一般议案 ，为了让政府更有效的工作，我认为这的确是个好主意“。曾任联邦通讯委员会高级律师的Spiwak告诉InternetNews.com."

"这是个艰巨的任务，如果能找到一个了解网络系统运作的人选，大家齐心协力，那将为政府更有效的运作树立一个和好的榜样”.

“谁也不知道会花落谁家”，Spiwak说，“如果真的是一个CTO职位，我希望这个人将会具有一些CTO方面的经验”

如果该职位果真如此，科技顾问Rob Enderle看好惠普的CTO Shane Robisan.
"如果这个CTO工作和其他CTO工作大同小异的话，那么Robisan将是最合适的人选“。Enderle在近期一个专栏里写道。该专栏旨在阐述Robison对惠普扭亏为盈所发挥的至关重要的作用。
Enderle也同时看好因开发了在网络上发送数据包的TCP/IP协议而被公认为互联网之父的Google首席互联网传道者Vint Cerf。决选名单上的其他人物还包括Al Gore和Lawrence Lessig，斯坦福特大学的法律专家以及网络与社会中心的奠基人。
另外还有奥巴马在竞选和过渡班子组建过程中帮了大忙的其他一些大人物---这些人中一些也被认为有机会。其中一个潜在的候选人就是前联邦通讯委员会主席Reed Hundt，他也曾和Schmidt一样为奥巴马竞选拉票.

From Google News

"I love working at Google, and I'm happy at Google, so the answer is no," Schmidt said.

If Schmidt is to be taken at his word, that removes one of the top contenders for a position that -- when announced by Obama in his campaign platform -- sent a clear signal to many observers that technology would be a top priority in his administration

It remains unclear exactly what form the job will take. In his technology plan, Obama said that the CTO's mission would be to "ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century."

But Obama has also outlined an ambitious technology agenda, pledging to codify Net neutrality, improve broadband deployment, shore up online privacy and tackle a host of other issues, raising the question of how much of a role the CTO would play in shaping the administration's policy decisions.

"You have no idea who that person is going to be," Spiwak said. "If it's a true CTO position, I hope they get someone with CTO experience."

"He is the best choice if the job really is a CTO job similar to other CTO jobs," Enderle wrote in a recent column, pointing to Robison's pivotal role in HP's turnaround.

Enderle also likes the chances of Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist who is widely credited as the father of the Internet, for co-inventing the TCP/IP protocols that send packets of information over the network.

Others on his short list include Al Gore and Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University and a founder of the Center for Internet and Society.