US President Donald Trump has named 13 people to his panel of science advisers ' and all but one is a leading technology executive. The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) now includes a single university researcher and at least nine billionaires. Among the new members are Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, the parent company of Facebook; Larry Ellison, the executive chairman of software giant Oracle; and Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google. There are also chief executives of tech hardware companies ' Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, Lisa Su of Advanced Microdevices and Michael Dell of Dell Technologies. The corporate chiefs have a combined wealth in excess of US$900 billion. Three of the chief executives have earned PhDs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Su's degree is in electrical engineering. Jacob DeWitte and Bob Mumgaard, who both head nuclear-energy start-up firms, have degrees in nuclear engineering and...
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