Author: Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

On January 30-31, 2019 the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, in collaboration with the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and th...

The 2012 National Research Council report Continuing Innovation in Information Technology illustrates how fundamental research in information techn...

The use of radio-frequency communicationcommonly referred to as wireless communicationis becoming more pervasive as well as more economically and s...

Biometric recognitionthe automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristicis promoted as a way to help i...

In 2008, the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council (N...

The Earth system - the atmospheric, hydrologic, geologic, and biologic cycles that circulate energy, water, nutrients, and other trace substances -...

During the 2016 presidential election, America's election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the V...

Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform,...

Biomedical research results in the collection and storage of increasingly large and complex data sets. Preserving those data so that they are disco...

The needs and demands placed on science to address a range of urgent problems are growing. The world is faced with complex, interrelated challenges...

Encryption protects information stored on smartphones, laptops, and other devices - in some cases by default. Encrypted communications are provided...

Established in December 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education wa...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has overseen significant upgrades to the technology used to manage aviation operations to increase the sa...

Data science is emerging as a field that is revolutionizing science and industries alike. Work across nearly all domains is becoming more data driv...

Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small (quantum) particles, provides the basis for a new paradigm of ...

Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific re...

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Dep...

In recent years, interest and progress in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have boomed, with new applications vig...

The effective use of data science - the science and technology of extracting value from data - improves, enhances, and strengthens acquisition deci...

Advanced computing capabilities are used to tackle a rapidly growing range of challenging science and engineering problems, many of which are compu...

Recent disclosures about the bulk collection of domestic phone call records and other signals intelligence programs have stimulated widespread deba...

Critical Code contemplates Department of Defense (DoD) needs and priorities for software research and suggests a research agenda and related action...

Following an earlier NRC workshop on public response to alerts and warnings delivered to mobile devices, a related workshop was held on February 2...

Software update is an important mechanism by which security changes and improvements are made in software, and this seemingly simple concept encomp...