Regional health care databases are being established around the country with the goal of providing timely and useful information to policymakers, physicians, and patients. But their emergence is raising important and sometimes controversial questions about the collection, quality, and appropriate use of health care data. …
The Psychology of Cyberspace
This free online book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace. …
Preparing for the Revolution
Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University identifies those information technologies likely to evolve in the near term (a decade or less) that could ultimately have a major impact on the research university. …
Information Technologies and Social Transformation
This collection of papers by scholars of technology and society, based on a National Academy of Engineering symposium, explores the process of mutual adjustment between information technologies and social institutions. …
Information Technology for Counterterrorism
This report concludes that the most devastating consequences of a terrorist attack would occur if it were on or used IT as part of a broader attack. …
The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure
This book presents a range of positions and perspectives on those two classes of policy mechanism, providing a succinct analysis followed by papers prepared by experts in telecommunications policy and applications. …
The Future of Supercomputing
This free online book The Future of Supercomputing: An Interim Report is authored by Committee on the Future of Supercomputing, National Research Council. …
Supercomputers: Directions in Technology and Applications
Supercomputers are the ultimate engine of the information age. By generating and processing vast amounts of data with hitherto unparalleled speed, they make new activities in industrial research and product development possible. …
Information Technology for Manufacturing
This book describes a vision of manufacturing in the twenty-first century that maximizes efficiencies and improvements by exploiting the full power of information and provides a research agenda for information technology and manufacturing that is necessary for success in achieving such a vision. …
The Internet Under Crisis Conditions
This book presents findings of a workshop featuring representatives of Internet Service Providers and others with access to data and insights about how the Internet performed on and immediately after the September 11 attacks. …