Aratt Prabhakar to be Director of the Commerce Departments National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST]. Dr. Prabhakar brings skill and enthusiasm to this important job. The daughter of a hardworking immigrant family. she holds a Ph.D. in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology. She worked at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. and in recent years has been a senior technical manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency [ARPA]. where she has supervised research projects on microelectronics. In her ARPA capacity. she has overseen the Sematech consortium. perhaps still the most successful and important of industryGovernment technology partnerships.
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