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News & Events
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| February 28-29, 2012 CSTB holds workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings using Social Media in Irvine, CA. A draft agenda and registration are available online. |
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| January 31, 2012 DARPA's new PERFECT program seeks a "new power dynamic to continue Moore's law." Power as a limiting factor in sustaining growth in computing performance growth is a major theme of CSTB’s recent report, The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level?, which makes recommendations for research, practice, and education. |
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| December 8, 2011 CSTB members Robert Kraut (for contributions to human-computer interaction) and Susan Landau (for public policy leadership in security and privacy) have been named 2011 ACM Fellows. |
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| November 14, 2011 Committee on Future Information Architectures, Processes, and Strategies for CMS releases report. Report | Press Release |
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| September 13, 2011 CSTB celebrates its 25th anniversary with a panel discussion, "CSTB then, now, and in the future." View a summary. |
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| September 12, 2011 CSTB's 25th anniversary is this year. What are some of your favorite CSTB reports over the years? Follow @cstb on Twitter and join the conversation about #CSTBat25. |
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Recent Publications  | The Safety Challenge and Promise of Automotive Electronics: Insights from Unintended Acceleration (Transportation Research Board, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, and CSTB) examines how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's regulatory, research, and defect investigation programs can be strengthened to meet the safety assurance and oversight challenges arising from the expanding functionality and use of automotive software and electronics. |  | Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recommends that CMS embrace IT as a critical strategic capability for improving the efficiency, quality, safety, and equity of U.S. health care. Report in Brief. |  | Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age (by NRC's Committee on National Statistics with CSTB) reviews how the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics collects and distributes information on science and engineering and recommends future directions for the program. |  | The Report of a Workshop on Pedagogical Aspects of Computational Thinking summarizes insights and approaches from educators who have addressed computational thinking in their work with K-12 teachers and students and in settings for informal (non-school) education. |  | Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options describes key technology trends, their implications, and options for facilitating the introduction of enhanced and new services. |  | |  | The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level? explores the causes and implications of the slowdown in the historically dramatic exponential growth in computing performance and the end of the dominance of the single microprocessor in computing. The report observes that the era of sequential computing must give way to a new era in which parallelism is at the forefront. The report concludes that important scientific and engineering challenges lie ahead and makes recommendations for research, practice, and education. |  | Preliminary Observations on Information Technology Needs and Priorities at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: An Interim Report discusses CMS's emerging requirements for information; challenges involving the transformation of enterprise data and technology management; and associated organizational, administrative, and cultural challenges. |  | |  | Proceedings of a Workshop on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options examines governmental, economical, technical, legal, and psychological challenges involved in deterring cyber attacks. It addresses key issues and questions identified in Letter Report from the Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy. |  | Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities presents a broad and comprehensive assessment of biometric recognition systems -- articulating design and operational considerations as well as outlining a research agenda to bolster the scientific and engineering underpinnings of these systems.
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|  | Improving State Voter Registration Databases outlines ways that states can improve their voter registration databases and enhance information sharing within and among states, including short-term improvements to voter education, dissemination of information, and administrative processes and long-term improvements to data collection and entry, matching procedures, and privacy and security. |  | Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities
concludes that although cyberattack capabilities are an important asset for the United States, the current policy and legal framework for their use is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain and that U.S. policy should be informed by an open and public national debate on technological, policy, legal, and ethical issues they pose. |
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