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December 2, 2008

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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.

News & Events

December 4, 2008 CSTB will hold the 5th workshop of the Committee on State Voter Registration Databases in Atlanta, GA. See the preliminary agenda (PDF) for more information.

October 18, 2008 An annotated list of key CSTB reports by topic has been added to the Web site.

October 7, 2008 The report, Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Program Assessment, was released.

September 26, 2008 The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) held its fall meeting in Washington, DC.

August 27, 2008 The National Science Foundation has awarded CSTB board member Andrew J. Viterbi a National Medal of Science for 2007. The National Medal of Science is the nation's highest honor for science and technology.

July 30-31, 2008 CSTB held the 4th workshop of the Committee on State Voter Registration Databases in Kansas City, MO. See the final agenda (PDF) for more information.

Recent Publications

	Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Assessment calls for U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data to evaluate the programs' effectiveness, lawfulness, and impacts on privacy, offers a framework agencies can use to evaluate programs, and urges Congress to consider new restrictions on how agencies can use data.
	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.
	State Voter Registration Databases: Immediate Actions and Future Improvements (Interim Report) outlines various challenges to the deployment of state voter registration databases, as mandated by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, and describes both short-term and longer-term solutions to these challenges.
	Opportunities for Coordination and Clarity to Advance the National Health Information Agenda: A Brief Assessment of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (Letter Report) reviews the pace and cohesion of standards activities coordinated by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and points to several opportunities to improve coordination and clarity.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.