WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday awarded the nation's highest science and technology honours to six tech executives, including Elon Musk, Anadolu Ajansi reported.
At the New Golden Age Summit at the Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, Trump presented the National Medal of Science to Musk of SpaceX, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su.
Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
"Few Americans in history have done more to advance America's national interest than Elon," said Trump, calling Musk "our modern-day Thomas Edison."
"The entire world is now running on Nvidia," he said about Huang's company.
