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.
So I’m well ensconced in the Cliff Lodge at the Snowbird Resort in Snowbird, Utah, preparing for CRA’s biannual Snowbird Conference, but finally have a chance to catch up on the blog. As reported, former CRA Gov’t Affairs Committee Chairman and current Co-chair of PITAC Ed Lazowska testified before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on […]
Press Contact: Peter Harsha CRA Director of Government Affairs P: 202-234-2111 ext 106 E: harsha [at] cra.org Computing Researchers Applaud Passage of High Performance Computing Legislation WASHINGTON, DC, July 7, 2004 – The Computing Research Association today praised the House of Representatives for approving two measures that would authorize efforts in high-performance computing research and […]
The clearest guide to what the House Science Committee intends to accomplish in moving HR 4126 to the House floor for passage is probably found in the report accompanying the bill. I’ve reprinted the pertinent passages here, as the report doesn’t seem to be available yet on Congress’ Thomas system. Interagency Planning and Coordination The […]
