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News and Events
| October 1, 2009 News from the National Academies podcast covers the release of Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities |
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| November 9, 2009 Herb Lin, CSTB's Chief Scientist, discusses Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities at Temple University's School of Law. (Please allow one minute for download) |
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| July 1, 2009 Robert F. Sproull, Vice President and Fellow at Sun Microsystems, appointed CSTB chair. |
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| June 30, 2009 Herb Lin, CSTB's chief scientist, gives talk on health care information technology to the Congressional Health Care Caucus. |
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| May 5, 2009 CSTB member Alfred Spector was elected to the 2009 class of fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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| April 29, 2009 CSTB releases Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities. For more information please view the report summary or visit the project homepage. |
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| April 28, 2009 CSTB member Jon Kleinberg is the recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences. |
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| February 19, 2009 CSTB member Sara Kiesler has been named winner of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the ACM's Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction. |
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| February 6, 2009 CSTB members William J. Dally (for contributions to the design of high-performance interconnect networks and parallel computer architectures) and Deborah L. Estrin (for pioneering design and application of heterogeneous wireless sensing systems for environmental monitoring) have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. |
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| January 23, 2009 CSTB releases Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem: Retaining Leadership in an Increasingly Global Environment. For more information please visit the project homepage. |
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| January 9, 2009 CSTB releases Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions. For more information please visit the project homepage. |
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| December 4, 2008 CSTB held the 5th workshop of the Committee on State Voter Registration Databases in Atlanta, GA. See the final agenda (PDF) for more information. |
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| October 18, 2008 An annotated list of key CSTB reports by topic has been added to the Web site. |
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| October 7, 2008 The report, Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Program Assessment, was released. |
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| September 26, 2008 The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) held its fall meeting in Washington, DC. |
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| August 27, 2008 The National Science Foundation has awarded CSTB board member Andrew J. Viterbi a National Medal of Science for 2007. The National Medal of Science is the nation's highest honor for science and technology. |
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| July 30-31, 2008 CSTB held the 4th workshop of the Committee on State Voter Registration Databases in Kansas City, MO. See the final agenda (PDF) for more information. |
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| May 22, 2008 CSTB releases Preliminary Observations on DoD Software Research Needs and Priorities: A Letter Report. This letter report responds to a request from the Department of Defense (DoD) for preliminary feedback regarding the Committee on Advancing Software-Intensive Systems Producibility's observations on DoD needs and priorities for software research as well as suggestions for a research agenda that would be executable within the DoD's Science and Technology framework. For more information please visit the project homepage. |
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| May 7-8, 2008 CSTB held the third workshop on state voter registration databases in Portland, Oregon. See the final agenda (PDF) for more information. |
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| February 8, 2008 CSTB celebrates the achievements of board and committee members elected to the National Academy of Engineering: Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research, for fundamental contributions to distributed algorithms and the security of cryptosystems; Jon M. Kleinberg, Cornell University, for contributions to the understanding of the structure and behavior of the World Wide Web and other complex networks; and Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Research, for significant contributions to algorithms and the structure of the World Wide Web. |
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| October 23, 2007 CSTB hosted a symposium featuring its new report Software For Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence? See the symposium agenda (PDF) for more information. |
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