奧巴馬將會見科技界領袖 喬布斯病危謠言不攻自破

US President Barack Obama plans to have a private dinner Thursday evening with Silicon Valley tech titans including Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, according to media reports.

"The president and the business leaders will discuss our shared goal of promoting American innovation, and discuss his commitment to new investments in research and development, education and clean energy," a White House official said.

In his State of the Union address delivered on Jan. 25, Obama cited technology companies as heirs to the industries that made the U.S. the world’s biggest economy.

“We’re the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook,” he said. “In America, innovation doesn’t just change our lives. It is how we make our living.”

Jobs' attendance is surprising not only for his ongoing medical leave of absence from Apple, but also for the rumors from celebrity gossip magazine National Enquirer.

The magazine quoted an "expert" who, after seeing photos purportedly taken outside a Stanford cancer center, noted: "I would say he has six weeks [to live]."

According to CBS News, the list of guests at the dinner includes: Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple; Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook; Carol BArtz, CEO of Yahoo; and John Hennessy, president of Stanford University.

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2月18消息，據美國哥倫比亞廣播公司18日報道，今天，美國總統奧巴馬由華盛頓飛往舊金山，晚上將在一處未公佈的私密會所與蘋果CEO喬布斯、Facebook創始人馬克•扎克伯格、谷歌CEO施密特以及其它加州科技高管舉行晚宴。報道稱奧巴馬此行目的是與上述高管商討美國經濟如何更好借鑑高科技行業的發展問題。

美國白宮新聞祕書簡•卡爾尼（Jay Carney）稱，奧巴馬期望科技行業在將來能夠對整個美國經濟的發展做出“重大貢獻”，併成爲其它行業發展的榜樣。“科技行業的蓬勃發展是美國人創造力、創新力和領導力的顯著證明。如果其它前沿行業能夠有效借鑑其發展模式，就可以創造和保持大量就業崗位。”他說。

按照白宮公佈的資料，今晚出席晚宴的企業高管還包括雅虎CEO卡羅爾·巴茨(Carol Bartz)，知名風險投資公司Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers合夥人約翰•杜爾(John Doerr)，思科CEO約翰•錢伯斯（John Chambers），Twitter CEO迪克•科斯特洛(Dick Costolo)，Oracle CEO拉里•埃裏森（Larry Ellison），Netflix CEO裏德·哈斯廷斯(Reed Hastings)，基因科技(Genentech)前CEO阿瑟·萊文森(Arthur Levinson)，以及斯坦福大學校長約翰約翰漢尼斯(John Hennessy)等

另外，昨日，美國一家八卦雜誌《國家問詢報》傳出蘋果CEO喬布斯已接近癌症晚期並只有大約6周的生命這一消息，在美國以及全世界引起較大關注。該報稱拍到喬布斯在加州癌症治療中心的照片，並援引重病專家醫生薩繆爾·傑克布森（Samuel Jacobson）的說法，“大概只有6周生命”。

今早李開復表示，八卦雜誌傳出喬布斯病危的消息是謠言，並稱《National Enquirer》經常發表一些“外星人”之類的新聞，希望網友下次不要輕易相信《National Enquirer》這份雜誌。

（以上新聞選擇網易）