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What Is CSTB?
As a part of the National Research Council, the Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board (CSTB) was established in 1986 to provide
independent advice to the federal government on technical and public
policy issues relating to computing and communications. Composed of
leaders from industry and academia, CSTB conducts studies of critical
national issues and makes recommendations to government, industry,
and academic researchers. CSTB also provides a neutral meeting ground
for consideration of complex issues where resolution and action may be
premature. It convenes invitational discussions that bring together princi-
pals from the public and private sectors, assuring consideration of all
perspectives. The majority of CSTB's work is requested by federal agen-
cies and Congress, consistent with its National Academies context.
A pioneer in framing and analyzing Internet policy issues, CSTB is
unique in its comprehensive scope and effective, interdisciplinary ap-
praisal of technical, economic, social, and policy issues. Beginning with
early work in computer and communications security, cyber-assurance
and information systems trustworthiness have been a cross-cutting theme
in CSTB's work. CSTB has produced several reports known as classics in
the field, and it continues to address these topics as they grow in impor-
tance.
To do its work, CSTB draws on some of the best minds in the country,
inviting experts to participate in its projects as a public service. Studies
are conducted by balanced committees without direct financial interests
in the topics they are addressing. Those committees meet, confer elec-
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WHAT IS CSTB?
tropically, and build analyses through their deliberations. Additional
expertise from around the country is tapped in a rigorous process of
review and critique, further enhancing the quality of CSTB reports. By
engaging groups of principals, CSTB obtains the facts and insights critical
to assessing key issues.
The mission of CSTB is to
· Respond to requests from the government, nonprofit organizations,
and private industry for advice on computer and telecommunications
issues and from the government for advice on computer and telecommu-
nications systems planning, utilization, and modernization;
· Monitor and promote the health of the gelds of computer science
and telecommunications, with attention to issues of human resources,
information infrastructure, and societal impacts;
· Initiate and conduct studies involving computer science, computer
technology, and telecommunications as critical resources; and
· Foster interaction among the disciplines underlying computing
and telecommunications technologies and other fields, at large and within
the National Academies.
As of 2003, CSTB activities with security and privacy components
address privacy in the information age, critical information infrastructure
protection, authentication technologies and their privacy implications,
information technology for countering terrorism, and geospatial informa-
tion systems. Additional studies examine broadband, digital govern-
ment, the fundamentals of computer science, limiting children's access to
pornography on the Internet, digital archiving and preservation, and
Internet navigation and the domain name system. Explorations touching
on security and privacy are under way in the areas of the insider threat,
cybersecurity research, cybersecurity principles and practices, depend-
able/safe software systems, biometrics, wireless communications and
spectrum management, open source software, digital democracy, the
"digital divide," manageable systems, information technology and jour-
nalism, supercomputing, and information technology and education.
More information about CSTB can be obtained online at .
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convenes invitational
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