Unpredictable Certainty

White Papers

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 1998
• eBook ISBN: 9780309174145
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Computer Science
• Index: Computer Science

This book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contributed to and complements the project's final report, The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000, which was published in the spring of 1996. That report was disseminated widely and was well received by its sponsors and a variety of audiences in government, industry, and academia. Constraints on staff time and availability delayed the publication of these white papers, which offer details on a number of issues and positions relating to the deployment of information infrastructure.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• NII 2000 Steering Committee
• Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
• Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications
• Preface
• Contents
• 1 The National Information Infrastructure and the Earth Sciences: Possibilities and Challenges
• 2 Government Services Information Infrastructure Management
• 3 Cutting the Gordian Knot: Providing the American Public with Advanced Universal Access in a Fully Competitive Marketplace at the Lowest Possible Cost
• 4 The Role of Cable Television in the NII
• 5 Competing Definitions of "Openness" on the GII
• 6 Communications for People on the Move: A Look into the Future
• 7 Building the NII: Will the Shareholders Come? (And if they Don't, Will Anyone Really Care?)
• 8 The Electronic Universe: Network Delivery of Data, Science, and Discovery
• 9 An SDTV Decoder with HDTV Capability: An All-Format ATV Decoder
• 10 NII and Intelligent Transport Systems
• 11 Post-NSFNET Statistics Collection
• 12 NII Road Map: Residential Broadband
• 13 The NII in the Home: A Consumer Service
• 14 Internetwork Infrastructure Requirements for Virtual Environments
• 15 Electric Utilities and the NII: Issues and Opportunities
• 16 Interoperation, Open Interfaces, and Protocol Architecture
• 17 Service Provider Interoperability and the National Information Infrastructure
• 18 Funding the National Information Infrastructure: Advertising, Subscription, and Usage Charges
• 19 The NII in the Home
• 20 The Evolution of the Analog Set-Top Terminal to a Digital Interactive Home Communications Terminal
• 21 Spread ALOHA Wireless Multiple Access: The Low-Cost Way for Ubiquitous, Tetherless Access to the Information Infrastructure
• 22 Plans for Ubiquitous Broadband Access to the National Information Infrastructure in the Ameritech Region
• 23 How Do Traditional Legal, Commercial, Social, and Political Structures, When Confronted with a New Service, React and Interact?
• 24 The Internet, the World Wide Web, and Open Information Services: How to Build the Global Information Infrastructure
• 25 Organizing the Issues
• 26 The Argument for Universal Access to the Health Care Information Infrastructure: The Particular Needs of Rural Areas, the Poor, and the Underserved
• 27 Toward a National Data Network: Architectural Issues and the Role of Government
• 28 Statement on National Information Infrastructure Issues
• 29 Proposal for an Evaluation of Health Care Applications on the NII
• 30 The Internet—A Model: Thoughts on the Five-Year Outlook
• 31 The Economics of Layered Networks
• 32 The Fiber-Optic Challenge of Information Infrastructures
• 33 Cable Television Technology Deployment
• 34 Privacy, Access and Equity, Democracy, and Networked Interactive Media
• 35 As We May Work: An Approach Toward Collaboration on the NII
• 36 The Use of the Social Security Number as the Basis for a National Citizen Identifier
• 37 Estimating the Costs of Telecommunications Regulation
• 38 Residential PC Access: Issues with Bandwidth Availability
• 39 The National Information Infrastructure: A High-Performance Computing and Communications Perspective
• 40 Nomadic Computing and Communications
• 41 NII 2000: The Wireless Perspective
• 42 Small Manufacturing Enterprises and the National Information Infrastructure
• 43 Architecture for an Emergency Lane on the NII: Crisis Information Management
• 44 Aspects of Integrity in the NII
• 45 What the NII Could Be: A User Perspective
• 46 Role of the PC in Emerging Information Infrastructures
• 47 NII Evolution—Technology Deployment Plans, Challenges, and Opportunities: AT&T Perspective
• 48 Enabling Petabyte Computing
• 49 Private Investment and Federal National Information Infrastructure Policy
• 50 Thoughts on Security and the NII
• 51 Trends in Deployments of New Telecommunications Services by Local Exchange Carriers in Support of an Advanced National Information Infrastructure
• 52 The Future NII/GII: Views of Interexchange Carriers
• 53 Technology in the Local Network
• 54 Recognizing What the NII is, What it Needs, and How to Get it
• 55 Electronic Integrated Product Development as Enabled by a Global Information Environment: A Requirement for Success in the Twenty-First Century
• 56 Interoperability, Standards, and Security: Will the NII be Based on Market Principles?
• 57 Technology and Cost Models for Connecting K-12 Schools to the National Information Infrastructure
• 58 Geodata Interoperability: A Key NII Requirement
• 59 Electronic Commerce
• 60 Prospects and Prerequisites for Local Telecommunications Competition: Public Policy Issues for the NII
• 61 The Awakening 3.0: PCs, TSBs, or DTMF-TV—Which Telecomputer Architecture is Right for the Next Generation's Public Network?
• 62 Effective Information Transfer for Health Care: Quality versus Quantity
• 63 Integrating Technology with Practice: A Technology-enhanced, Field-based Teacher Preparation Program
• 64 RegNet: An NPR Regulatory Reform Initiative Toward NII/GII Collaboratories
• 65 Electronic Document Interchange and Distribution Based on the Portable Document Format, an Open Interchange Format