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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 14
June 15 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cyberspace as a national asset, with an emphasis on legislation...
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Senator Lieberman and Colleagues Introduce Another Cybersecurity Bill
Cybersecurity legislation is sort of popular in this Congress. Several bills have been introduced, but there are enough cybersecurity bills working through the...
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USACM Comments on Internet Privacy Bill Discussion Draft
Representatives Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) and Cliff Stearns (R-Florida), who are the chair and ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology...
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Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - May 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 5)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the May issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 24
May 25 Meeting: The Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security will meet. 12:30 p.m., Harding Hall, 710 North Capitol...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 17
May 20 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Carl Wieman to be the Associate Director for...
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ACM Education Policy Committee and USACM Offer Support for COMPETES Reauthorization Bill
The House Science and Technology Committee recently marked up a bill to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act. In recognition of this effort, the ACM Education...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 10
May 13 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the national...
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ACM Washington Update, Vol. 14.3 (May 6, 2010)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Competes Act Reauthorization Gets Rolling [3] Open Government Plans Released and Guidance Issued on Social Networking [4]...
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Draft Internet Privacy Bill Released
Representative Rick Boucher, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet released a discussion draft of an internet privacy bill...
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COMPETES Act Reauthorization Takes First Step Through Congress
Last Wednesday at the end of a long markup session, the House Science and Technology Committee approved a bill that would reauthorize the American COMPETES Act,...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 3
May 5 Hearing: The Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on updating the Electronic...
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Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - April 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 4)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the April issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 26
April 28 Markup: The House Science and Technology Committee will mark up a reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act. 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn Building
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 19
April 21 Hearing: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on cybercrime and identity theft. This was previously scheduled for April 8. 10 a.m., 226...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 12
April 15 Hearing: The Communications, Technology and the Internet subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the national...
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Government Agencies Release Open Government Plans
On Wednesday several federal agencies released open government plans, which is a requirement of the Open Government Directive issued late last year by the Obama...
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Court Ruling Will Stall FCC
Yesterday a federal appeals court ruled in a case involving the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) efforts to sanction Comcast for violating the FCC's net...
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ACM Washington Update, Vol. 14.2 (April 6, 2010)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] 2009 ACM Turing Award Goes to Charles Thacker [3] USACM and CRA Express Concerns with Senate Cybersecurity Bill [4] Science...
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