Science and Technology

Female Populations
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Book Review: 'The Woman Who Smashed Codes' by Jason Fagone
Cortney Weinbaum @cortney_dc
Feb 19, 2019
Modern War Institute (West Point)
'The Woman Who Smashed Codes' by Jason Fagone is the story of Elizebeth Friedman, the mother of modern cryptoanalysis and cryptography. She broke coded messages of organized crime, broke the Nazi Enigma cryptography machine, and deciphered, mapped, and monitored Nazi activities in South America, though it is her husband William who often gets credit.
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Forecasting Methodology
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How Horizon Scanning Can Give the Military a Technological Edge
Sarah Grand-Clement
Feb 8, 2019
UK MOD Guide to Defence and Security
Horizon scanning could promote innovative practices and innovation uptake, through the adoption of new ideas, equipment, and methods, with benefits that could positively affect the UK economy as a whole. But a wider mechanism for processing and assessing the selected developments would be needed.
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Transportation Safety
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How to Make Roads Safer for Autonomous Vehicles
Laura Fraade-Blanar
Feb 6, 2019
Axios
Roadways and vehicle design could be modified to better accommodate both human error and the shortcomings of autonomous vehicle systems.
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United States
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State of the Union 2019: Insights from RAND
Feb 6, 2019
To shed light on a wide range of topics that figured in President Trump's second State of the Union address, we've rounded up insights from some of RAND's objective and nonpartisan research, analysis, and expertise.
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Cybersecurity
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Developing an Objective, Repeatable Scoring System for a Vulnerability Equities Process
Sasha Romanosky
Feb 5, 2019
Lawfare
If governments seek to create an objective framework for decision making about whether or when to disclose software vulnerabilities, what might that look like? What questions should be included, how should they influence the outcome and how can one interpret the results?
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Military Technology
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America's National Defense Strategy and the Paradox of Technology
Chad C. Serena, Colin P. Clarke @ColinPClarke
Feb 4, 2019
The National Interest
The need for the military to make greater investments in technology is difficult if not impossible to separate from the risks posed by an increasing military reliance on this technology. Striking a balance between the two won't be easy.
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Artificial Intelligence
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Does the U.S. Face an AI Ethics Gap?
Benjamin Boudreaux
Jan 11, 2019
RealClearDefense
Instead of worrying about an artificial intelligence “ethics gap,” U.S. policymakers and the military community could embrace a leadership role in AI ethics. This may help ensure that the AI arms race doesn't become a race to the bottom.
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Bioethics
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Ethics of Germline Editing Must Keep Up with Technology
Daniel M. Gerstein @Daniel_Gerstein
Jan 10, 2019
United Press International
Scientists have conducted DNA modifications since the early 1970s, yet mainstream interest in genome editing is now surging. If this research is to go forward, the science should be well understood by those conducting the research. Best practices and the highest scientific standards should be employed to limit risks and prevent unintended consequences.
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Russia
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In Venezuela, a Potential U.S.-Russian Crisis?
William Courtney @courtneywmh
Jan 8, 2019
The Hill
In December, two supersonic nuclear-capable Russian bombers visited Venezuela, the third such excursion for the warplanes since 2008. Might Moscow intend to pose a threat, perhaps even nuclear, to the Western Hemisphere? If so, how could Washington respond?
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Postsecondary Education
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Pardee RAND Reimagines the Future of Public Policy Problem Solving
Susan L. Marquis @susanlmarquis
Jan 7, 2019
The Pardee RAND Graduate School is taking a new approach to public policy education. Three new streams of study and action will better align with today's policy needs. Faculty and students will shift the focus from coming up with solutions to actually implementing them.
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Physics
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Science Met Art in Early Data Visualization at RAND
Jan 4, 2019
Ivan Finkle, a computer scientist at RAND from 1957 to 1968, used a plotter printer to make Lissajous figures. He fed equations into the computer to give the coordinates of each point. The printer photographed the result and compiled the lines into artful shapes.
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Information Privacy
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Data Breaches Could Cause Users to Opt Out of Sharing Personal Data. Then What?
Douglas Yeung @DouglasCYeung
Dec 28, 2018
United Press International
As tech-based systems have become all but indispensable, many institutions might assume user data will be reliable, meaningful and, most of all, plentiful. But what if this data became unreliable, meaningless, or even scarce?
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The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization)
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ISIS's Use of Social Media Still Poses a Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Africa
Antonia Ward @antoniahward
Dec 11, 2018
Georgetown Security Studies Review
The importance of social media in projecting violent extremist propaganda and recruiting foreign fighters is well documented. As ISIS attempts to regroup and recuperate, investigating its strategic use of information and communication technologies in its communication with civilians could be important to understanding the group's plans to regain territorial control.
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Cybersecurity
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When Cyber Attacks Occur, Who Should Investigate?
John S. Davis II, Jonathan William Welburn @jwwelburn, Benjamin Boudreaux, Jair Aguirre
Dec 6, 2018
United Press International
Data breaches and cyberattacks cross geopolitical boundaries, targeting individuals, corporations and governments. Creating a global body with a narrow focus on investigating and assigning responsibility for cyberattacks could be the first step to creating a digital world with accountability.
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Information Operations
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And, By the Way, They Were All Women: RAND Hosts Forum on 21st-Century Warfare Honoring Roberta Wohlstetter
Nov 26, 2018
National security experts, flag officers, and decisionmakers attended the Roberta Wohlstetter Forum on National Security at RAND's Washington office on October 24. The featured speakers, moderators, organizers, donor, and namesake for the event were all women.
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Social and Emotional Learning
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Finding the Right Assessment Tool: Another Resource for Educators and Researchers
Laura S. Hamilton @HamiltonLauraS, Brian M. Stecher
Nov 7, 2018
The Measuring SEL Blog
To teach something effectively, educators need to determine whether their instructional approaches are working, and make adjustments to those approaches as needed. The Assessment Work Group and RAND have developed tools to assist educators in finding and using assessments to measure social and emotional learning and higher-order cognitive competencies.
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Science and Technology

Book Review: 'The Woman Who Smashed Codes' by Jason Fagone

How Horizon Scanning Can Give the Military a Technological Edge

How to Make Roads Safer for Autonomous Vehicles

State of the Union 2019: Insights from RAND

Developing an Objective, Repeatable Scoring System for a Vulnerability Equities Process

America's National Defense Strategy and the Paradox of Technology

Does the U.S. Face an AI Ethics Gap?

Ethics of Germline Editing Must Keep Up with Technology

In Venezuela, a Potential U.S.-Russian Crisis?

Pardee RAND Reimagines the Future of Public Policy Problem Solving

Science Met Art in Early Data Visualization at RAND

Data Breaches Could Cause Users to Opt Out of Sharing Personal Data. Then What?

ISIS's Use of Social Media Still Poses a Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Africa

When Cyber Attacks Occur, Who Should Investigate?

And, By the Way, They Were All Women: RAND Hosts Forum on 21st-Century Warfare Honoring Roberta Wohlstetter

Finding the Right Assessment Tool: Another Resource for Educators and Researchers

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