tl;dr: On 2007/11/14, Barack Obama apparently was the first top-ranking elected politician of any country who could give a conclusive answer to a question usually posed to the candidates during job interviews for technical positions at google. Erich Schmidt asked him about the most efficient manner to sort a million 32-bit integers. Obama correctly replied: "Bubble Sort would not be the way to go."
Full version at the Google Public Policy Blog
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