POLICY ISSUES
Washington News – Alerts and Updates
General News • USACM issued a press statement on President Obama’s comments on privacy and security in his State of the Union address. • ACM’s Annual Report FY2014, published this month in the Communications of the ACM, features activities and accomplishme
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USACM Members Testify Before Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) met in Washington D.C. on November 12 to take testimony on privacy in the context of counterterrorism programs. The board heard from four panels of experts, two of whom were USACM members testifying in their individual role
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President Obama Honors ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate Charles Bachman and ACM Fellow Mary Shaw with Awards
President Obama awarded eleven U.S. National Medals of Science and eight U.S. National Medals of Technology and Innovation at a White House ceremony in the East Room on November 20. Among the recipients, ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate Charles W. Bachman and ACM Fellow Mary Shaw r
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Heading Into Midterms, USACM Re-emphasizes Role Of Technology In Elections
With mid-term Congressional elections fast approaching, USACM released a statement to emphasize the importance of voting technology in elections. It echoes past statements from USACM on voting, including its 2013 remarks to the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.
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ACM Fellow Randal Bryant Joins White House Staff To Tackle Big Data
Randal Bryant, University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has accepted a temporary assignment to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Bryant, an ACM Fellow since 2000 and the 1998 recipient of ACM’s Paris Kanellakis T
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USACM Announces New Leadership
ACM President Alex Wolf has appointed Ed Felten as Chair and Stuart Shapiro and Jeremy Epstein as Co-Vice Chairs of the ACM U.S. Public Policy Council. Alex Wolf thanked Eugene Spafford for his 16 years of dedicated service leading USACM as its Chair. Ed Felten is the Director of
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