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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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CS Education in the States
If you've read a recent piece I co-wrote in Communications of the ACM (membership required), you know that the States largely drive education decisions in the...
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FCC Will Tackle Net Neutrality
Earlier this week Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his intention to establish an expanded definition of net neutrality to...
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Committee Considers Changes to Cybersecurity Research and Development
This morning the Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee met to mark up legislation that would amend the Cyber...
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USACM Looks Back at FY 2009
The ACM?s Policy Office staff and USACM?s leadership have compiled USACM?s annual report for the past fiscal year - 2009 (which ended June 30). This year?s report...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 21
September 21 Presentation: The DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and the New America Foundation host a discussion with Prof. Jonathan Lazar...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 21
September 21 Presentation: The DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and the New America Foundation host a discussion with Prof. Jonathan Lazar...
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Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - September 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 9)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 14
September 14 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cyberattacks and industry. 10 a.m., 342 Dirksen Building...
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ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.7 (September 9, 2009), 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] ACM Urges That Education Funding Include Computer Science [3] USACM Comments on Government Web Tracking Policies [4] USACM...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 7
Congress has returned from its August recess. September 10 Meeting: The Consumer Advisory Committee of the Federal Communications Commission will meet to discuss...
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Lecture on Human-Computer Interaction and Public Policy
Event Date: September 21, 2009 The Washington DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, with support from the New America Foundation, will hold a...
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ACM Comments on Reach for the Top Education Fund
The Association for Computing Machinery recently submitted comments (PDF) on the Race to the Top Fund, an Education Department program set up to address some of...
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Health Information Technology Inches Forward
While health care legislation is stalled, movement continues on increasing the use of both health information technology and electronic health records. The National...
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FCC Seeks Comments on Definition of Broadband
As part of the National Broadband Plan that is within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeks "tailored comment...
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Some Thoughts on Technophilia
The New Media Consortium is hosting a Symposium for the Future October 27-29. I was asked to write a few thoughts that might provoke conversation in preparation...
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Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - August 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 8)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the August issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
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USACM Comments on Government Website Policy on Web Tracking Technologies
In response to a request for comment from the Office of Science and Technology Policy, today USACM submitted comments on how federal government websites should...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of August 3
August 6 Meeting: The President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) will hold its initial meeting (PDF) of the Obama Administration (continues...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 27
July 29 Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on peer-to-peer file sharing, with a focus on inadvertent file sharing...
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