Megan Smith
Engineering technologist and former Chief Technology Officer of the United StatesWikipedia
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Search complete. 7 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Megan Smith".
Oct 25, 2026
From Brewers Buzz to Ballot Battles: This Week in Wisconsin Politics
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20:55Chris MullerHOST
And she's been on the payroll for places like Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other corporate media places.
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21:04Chris MullerHOST
Not only that, she was married to Megan Smith, who served in the Obama administration.
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21:12Chris MullerHOST
So I'm trying to form the woke credentials that she has.
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21:17Chris MullerHOST
This lady is farthest left as you can get in our society.
Innovation Insights from Megan Smith at Harvard i-lab
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18:48Mitch WeissHOST
Okay.
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18:48Mitch WeissHOST
So if there were a, a Megan Smith test for AI, what would its c- what would the criteria be?
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18:54Megan SmithGUEST
You know, I would probably crowdsource that-
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18:56Mitch WeissHOST
Ah, good, yeah
21 MINS LATER
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40:23Mitch WeissHOST
I-i-it itself didn't succeed at bringing these technologies to the world, although the people, you know, Andy at Android, um, o-others at Apple with the iPod and iPhone and, and the Apple Watch, you in, in the government.
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40:35Mitch WeissHOST
And so the people have done-- gone on and done amazing things.
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40:37Mitch WeissHOST
Um, this is a, I, I probably can say, younger Megan Smith.
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40:40Mitch WeissHOST
Um, and, uh, there's this fascinating part in the movie when you're explaining the prototypes.
The Magic That Made General Magic w/ Marc Porat
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20:21Marc PoratGUEST
He was the, he was our punk.
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20:22Marc PoratGUEST
He was our, [laughs] you know, he was our baby with Megan Smith, who became the Ch- Chief Technology Officer of the United States of America, working for President Barack Obama.
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20:31BrettHOST
Wow.
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20:31Marc PoratGUEST
Who would've known? Uh, she was, she, you know, was our baby, and Tony was our baby, and they, uh, they were...
38: The Claude Shannon Episode: Surprise, Entropy, and Bits
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13:26WolfHOST
This was an interview that happened at General Magic.
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13:29WolfHOST
Most of the clip was about Megan Smith, who was a hardware person, brilliant, ended up like an important person in Washington, D.C., I think, in the Obama administration.
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13:45WolfHOST
I have to say, of the people at General Magic, there were so many who were so wonderful to work with.
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13:53WolfHOST
But Rama said nice things, and he found value in some of the things I had said.
Ep. 9 | Unintended Consequences: Taking Responsibility for What We Build | Tony Fadell
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40:54Tony FadellGUEST
I'm like, no. I'm just too much of a...
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40:57Mike SternHOST
Because I think you and Megan are at MIT.
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40:59Mike SternHOST
Megan Smith are at MIT together, right? You're both fellows there now.
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41:03Mike SternHOST
And her experience in government was, how do we bring technology to the people and benefit them? And I just wondered if that was something that might catch your
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41:12Tony FadellGUEST
imagination.