The Committee for Advancing Software-Intensive Systems Producibility was appointed by the
National Research Council (NRC) and convened under the auspices of the NRC’s Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board (CSTB) to assess the nature of the national investment in software research
and, in particular, to consider ways to...
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...
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...
This report is the result of a study encompassing astrophysical phenomena that give insight into fundamental physics, as well as fundamental physics relevant to understanding astrophysical phenomena, and the structure and evolution of the universe. Includes color illustrations. Softcover.
Microelectromenchanical systems (MEMS) is a revolutionary field that adapts for new uses a technology already optimized to accomplish a specific set of objectives. The silicon-based integrated circuits process is so highly refined it can produce millions of electrical elements on a single chip and define their critical dimensions to...
Biometric recognition--the automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristic--is promoted as a way to help identify terrorists, provide better control of access to physical facilities and financial accounts, and increase the efficiency of access to services and their utilization. Biometric...
Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems exacerbated the difficulties in carrying out response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. To assist government planning in this...
The American workforce is changing, creating new challenges for employers
to provide occupational health services to meet the needs of
employees. First, a shift from manufacturing to services, knowledgecentered,
and mobile work has changed the focus of occupational health
from physical injury and exposure-related illness...
Some of the hardest computational problems have been successfully attacked through the use of probabilistic algorithms, which have an element of randomness to them. Concepts from the field of probability are also increasingly useful in analyzing the performance of algorithms, broadening our understanding beyond that provided by the...
Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field provides a concise characterization of key ideas that lie at the core of computer science (CS) research. The book offers a description of CS research recognizing the richness and diversity of the field. It brings together two dozen essays on diverse aspects...
For those in the broad engineering community--those who employ, work with, and/or educate engineers, and engineers themselves--there is no need to explain the importance and value of engineering. They understand that engineers help make the world a better place for all, that they regularly grapple with important societal and environmental...
(National Research Council and Institute of Medicine) Presents the Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research's findings and recommendations. The guidelines are intended to enhance the integrity of privately funded research and covers the ethical concerns surrounding hES cell research and what scientists can do to...
