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Issues in the Integration of Research and Operationsl Satellite Systems for Climate Research: Science and Design (Compass Series)

National Academy Press, 2000

This is the first of two reports that address the complex issue of incorporating the needs of climate research into the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). NPOESS, which has been driven by the imperative of reliably providing short-term weather information, is itself a union of heretofore separate civilian...

A Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa (Compass Series)

National Academy Press, 1999

Terrestrial studies of life in extreme environments now show that Earth is teeming with microorganisms. Nearly every locale that contains two ingredients, liquid water and some form of energy, appears to host a variety of microbes living happily under conditions that just a few years ago would have seemed impossibly inhospitable. There is also...

Basic Research in Information Science And Technology for Air Force Needs

National Academy Press, 2006

The U.S. Air Force, like the other services, is transforming itself into a new type of force with capabilities appropriate for an emerging array of new threats. The Air Force roadmap for transformation, part of the U.S. Air Force Transformation Flight Plan, describes...

Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence?

National Academy Press, 2007

Critical systems are often subject to certiication: a formal assurance that the system has met relevant technical standards designed to ensure it will not unduly endanger the public and can be depended upon to deliver its intended service safely and securely. Today, certiication1 of the dependability of a software-based system usually relies more...

Controlling the Quantum World: The Science of Atoms, Molecules, and Photons (Physics 2010)

National Academy Press, 2007

As part of the Physics 2010 decadal survey project, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation requested that the National Research Council assess the opportunities, over roughly the next decade, in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and technology. In particular, the National Research Council was asked to cover...

Beyond the Market: Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States

National Academy Press, 2004

One of the long-standing goals of the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) is the improvement of economic measurement and the data sources crucial to that measurement. In working toward that goal, recent CNSTAT panels have produced reports on price and cost-of-living indexes, poverty measurement, measurement of the economy’s government...

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age

National Academy Press, 2007

Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly unbounded options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries; online practices of businesses and government agencies present new ways to compromise privacy; and e-commerce and technologies...

Government Data Centers: Meeting Increasing Demands

National Academy Press, 2003

As repositories of the nation’s environmental data, U.S. government data centers are constantly evolving. The data they collect, disseminate, and archive are critical to assessing the state of the earth and our effect on it. As the data record grows, so does our understanding of the environment. However, because of the increasing amount and...

Embedded, Everywhere: A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computers

National Academy Press, 2001

Continued advances in information technologies are enabling a growing number of physical devices to be imbued with computingand communications capabilities. Aircraft, cars, household appliances, cellular telephones, and health monitoring devices all contain microprocessors that are being linked with other information processing devices. Such...

Information Technology for Counterterrorism: Immediate Actions and Futures Possibilities

National Academy Press, 2003

Immediately following the events of September 11, 2001, the National Academies (including the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council) offered its services to the nation to formulate a scientific and technological response to the challenges posed by emerging...

Innovation in Information Technology

National Academy Press, 2003

The health of the computer science field and related disciplines has
been an enduring concern of the National Research Council’s Computer cience and Telecommunications Board (CSTB). From its first reports in the late 1980s, CSTB has examined the nature, conduct, scope, and directions of the research that drives innovation in...

Bioinformatics: Converting Data to Knowledge, Workshop Summary

National Academy Press, 2002

In 1993 the National Research Council’s Board on Biology established a series of forums on biotechnology. The purpose of the discussions is to foster open communication among scientists, administrators, policy-makers, and others engaged in biotechnology research, development, and commercialization. The neutral setting offered by the National...

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