In an affirmation of fair use rights — at least, as long as they don’t conflict with any other rights — a federal court ruled yesterday that a company that makes interoperable remotes for other companies’ garage door openers isn’t violating federal copyright law. The law in question is the troublesome Digital Millenium Copyright Act […]
Just a quick pointer to two interesting posts on innovation on Ed Felten’s Freedom to Tinker blog. Nurturing Innovation Nurturing Innovation II Here’s a good bit: Internet email was invented in 1971. Back then, could you have found even one single person in Washington who would point to this fledgling technology as one day being […]
Wired covers remarks by DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly formed federal Election Assistance Commission, praising computer scientists for calling attention to security problems with e-voting machines and for helping develop new standards for building machines that might be more secure in the future. CRA’s affiliate organization the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) […]
An update to a story we mentioned way back in January, the Army’s inspector general found that an Army data-mining project using data offered by JetBlue and a private data broker didn’t violate federal privacy rules. This may say more about the need to update federal privacy rules than it does about the privacy implications […]
Great article in US News and World Report on the “corporate wake up call” regarding the participation of women in computer science. CRA’s Jan Cuny (and CRA’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W)) gets a nice mention. Here’s a sample: That sense of isolation and inadequacy is one reason the number […]
The Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro has an interesting article on the sorry state of affairs we’ve now reached as a result of the Federal government’s “broadcast flag” requirement. Tivo would like to add a new feature to their digital video recorders, but faces a strenuous objection from the National Football League, which fears for its, […]
The President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee’s (PITAC) Subcommittee on Cyber Security met today “town hall” style at the GOVSEC conference here in DC today to hear from ITAA head Harris Miller, Joel Birnbaum, head of the CSTB study on “Improving Cyber Security Research in the US“, and to take public input as it continues its […]
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The House Science Committee will review efforts by industry, academia and the government to develop the Nation’s cybersecurity workforce at a hearing tomorrow. Here’s the committee’s press release with details on the witnesses invited. The hearing charter (pdf) is also available.
CRA plugged in this article that ran in Computerworld today.
