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Joseph F. Traub, 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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News & Events
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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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Recent Publications
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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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Summary of a Workshop on Software-Intensive Systems and Uncertainty at Scale summarizes the workshop on uncertainty at scale in the context of software-intensive systems producibility, held January 17, 2007, in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of CSTB's Committee on Advancing Software-Intensive Systems Producibility.
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Social Security Administration Electronic Service Provision: A Strategic Assessment examines the SSA’s proposed e-government strategy and provides advice on how the SSA can best deliver services to its user communities in the future. |
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Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace examines the vulnerabilities of the Internet and offers a strategy for future research aimed at countering cyber attacks. The report also explores the nature of online threats and some of the reasons why past research for improving cybersecurity has had less impact than anticipated. |
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Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence? discusses the meaning of dependability in a software and systems context, illustrates how the growing use and complexity of software necessitates a different approach to ensuring dependability, and recommends an evidence-based approach to achieving justifiable confidence in and greater dependability of software. |
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Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age examines how threats to privacy are evolving, ongoing information technology trends, and how society can balance the interests of individuals, businesses, and government in ways that promote privacy reasonably and efficiently. |
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