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Robert F. Sproull, Chair | Jon Eisenberg, Director The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board is where the nation turns for independent and informed assessments of computing, communications and public policy. |
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Recent Publications
| | |  | Achieving Effective Acquisition of Information Technology in the Department of Defense calls for the DOD to acquire information technology systems using a fundamentally different acquisition process based on iterative, incremental development practices. |  | Letter Report from the Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy is the first phase of a larger project to conduct a broad, multidisciplinary examination of deterrence strategies and their possible utility to the U.S. government in its policies toward preventing cyberattacks. This first phase identifies the key issues and questions that merit examination. |  | Report of a Workshop on The Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking discusses what "computational thinking for everyone" might mean and its cognitive and educational implications.
|  | 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. |  | Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem: Retaining Leadership in an Increasingly Global Environment examines changes in the IT R&D ecosystem over the past decade and makes recommendations to strengthen the effectiveness and impact of federally funded information technology research; for the U.S. to remain the strongest generator of and magnet for technical talent; to reduce friction that harms the effectiveness of the U.S. IT R&D ecosystem; and to ensure that the U.S. has a communications, computing, and applications infrastructure which enables U.S. IT users and innovators to lead the world. |  | Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions finds that current national health care IT deployment efforts will not be sufficient to achieve the vision of 21st century health care, and calls for greater emphasis by computer science and health/biomedical informatics researchers on providing cognitive support for health care providers, patients, and family caregivers. |  | |  | Preliminary Observations on DoD Software Research Needs and Priorities: A 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. |  | |
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