How a Team of Academic Experts Contributed to Obama's Cyberspace Review

The National Security Council's Melissa Hathaway sought the advice of a variety of computer security experts when she conducted the recently completed 60-day review of the U.S.'s cyberspace policy. The National Science Foundation arranged for a teleconference between Hathaway and a small group of academics, including Cornell University professor and TRUST Science and Technology Center chief scientist Fred Schneider and University of Washington professor Ed Lazowska, to gather ideas from experts in trustworthy computing and create a viable set of recommendations. The final version of the recommendations was signed by 67 academics. The document addresses how the academic community can help the administration by investigating difficult technical challenges through fundamental, open, long-term research and education, and how the administration can help the academic community be more effective partners in the U.S.'s efforts to design, build, and deploy trustworthy systems.

"The entire process was a watershed moment for a research community that has long wanted to help solve what is clearly a pressing national problem — the need to create and deploy trustworthy systems to run our nation's critical infrastructures," Schneider says.

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