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 […]
Two bills aimed at reauthorizing portions of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program, the interagency initiative that encompasses all of the Federal IT R&D effort, will reach the House floor on Wednesday and likely pass. We’ve detailed both bills — H.R. 4218 – the High Performance Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 […]
The latest update from the ACM U.S. Public Policy Committee is out. Always a handy source of information on policy affecting the computing community.
From Federal Computer Week: international students and scholars visiting the United States will soon have to pay a $100 fee to register in the Homeland Security Department’s information system to cover administration and maintenance costs for the system. Here’s the full article.
The previously scheduled, then postponed IT R&D hearing of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census has been rescheduled for July 7, 2004. Apparently, same lineup as the first time around. Check here for details.
The House Science Committee will hold a hearing on testing and certification for voting equipment. Here’s an early version of the hearing charter.
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing Wednesday on a bill to authorize the building of a “Leadership Class” supercomputer at DOE. S. 2176, the High End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004, introduced by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), would authorize $250 million worth of HEC R&D at […]
Ed Felten’s Freedom to Tinker has the details on the latest development in the effort to reform portions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (pdf) to allow the distribution and use of circumvention technologies for non-infringing purposes. Tech giants Sun Microsystems and Intel, along with a number of other powerful tech firms, will announce […]
