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The modern telecommunications infrastructureâ€"made possible by research performed over the last several decadesâ€"is an essential element of th...
Maintaining the United States' strong lead in information technology will require continued federal support of research in this area, most of which is...
A Twenty-First Century Lever
Information technology has been touted as a boon for productivity, but measuring the benefits has been difficult. This volume examines what macroecono...
Progress in information technology (IT) has been remarkable, but the best truly is yet to come: the power of IT as a human enabler is just beginning t...
Envisioning CSTB's Second 10 Years
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Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs
The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus: th...
Expanding Information Technology Research to Meet Society's Needs
The flood of information technology (I.T.) products and services entering the market place often obscures the need to nurture the research enterprise....
Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity
Computer science has drawn from and contributed to many disciplines and practices since it emerged as a field in the middle of the 20th century. Those...
Governments have done much to leverage information technology to deploy e-government services, but much work remains before the vision of e-government...
Whether or not you use a computer, you probably use a telephone, electric power, and a bank. Although you may not be aware of their presence, networke...
Game Over or Next Level?
The end of dramatic exponential growth in single-processor performance marks the end of the dominance of the single microprocessor in computing. The e...
Learning from September 11
This report presents findings of a workshop featuring representatives of Internet Service Providers and others with access to data and insights about ...
Computers, communications, digital information, softwarethe constituents of the information ageare everywhere. Being computer literate, that is te...
Safe Computing in the Information Age
Computers at Risk presents a comprehensive agenda for developing nationwide policies and practices for computer security. Specific recommendations are...
Pay Now or Pay Later
This report reviews past NRC studies that have examined various dimensions of computer and network security and vulnerability and brings the results f...
White Papers
This book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contribute...
Improving Science, Engineering, and Institutions
Attaining meaningful cybersecurity presents a broad societal challenge. Its complexity and the range of systems and sectors in which it is needed mean...
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are "engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and ph...
Research for Crisis Management and Other Applications
This book synthesizes the findings of three workshops on research issues in high-performance computing and communications (HPCC). It focuses on the ro...
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering (...
Advances in computer science and technology and in biology over the last several years have opened up the possibility for computing to help answer fun...
Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking presents a number of perspectives on the definition and applicability of comput...
Part of an in-depth study of how information technology research and development could more effectively support advances in the use of information tec...
Progress and Prospects
Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small (quantum) particles, provides the basis for a new paradigm of com...
Certification of critical software systems (e.g., for safety and security) is important to help ensure their dependability. Today, certification relie...
Changing Needs for the 1990s
Surprisingly little is known about the people responsible for advancing the science, technology, and application of computing systems, despite their c...
Resurgence, Confluence, and Continuing Impact
Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform, al...
For every opportunity presented by the information age, there is an opening to invade the privacy and threaten the security of the nation, U.S. busine...
Proceedings of a Workshop
Software update is an important mechanism by which security changes and improvements are made in software, and this seemingly simple concept encompass...
A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress
Digital information and networks challenge the core practices of libraries, archives, and all organizations with intensive information management need...
Prescriptions for the Internet
Consumer health websites have garnered considerable media attention, but only begin to scratch the surface of the more pervasive transformations the I...
In June 2016 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened the Workshop on Encryption and Mechanisms for Authorized Governmen...
Software Producibility for Defense
Critical Code contemplates Department of Defense (DoD) needs and priorities for software research and suggests a research agenda and related actions. ...
Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?
Recent years have yielded significant advances in computing and communication technologies, with profound impacts on society. Technology is transformi...
Fundamental Challenges
Rapid progress in information and communications technologies is dramatically enhancing the strategic role of information, positioning effective explo...
A broad and growing literature describes the deep and multidisciplinary nature of the sustainability challenges faced by the United States and the wor...
Scientific and Technological Challenges
Despite widespread interest in virtual reality, research and development efforts in synthetic environments (SE)â€"the field encompassing virtual en...
Convergence has been a key topic of discussion about the future of cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering research. Convergence refers both t...
Summary of a Workshop for the Intelligence Community
Recent disclosures about the bulk collection of domestic phone call records and other signals intelligence programs have stimulated widespread debate ...