This page is part of an in-progress commentary by Roger
Frye
on High Altitude
Thinking: The International Informatics Summit.
Jeff mentioned California power outages, Enron scandal.
Single slide mentions energy exploration, tech transfer, privacy and applications in defense. Role and responsibility of government. He looks forward to learning about the history of informatics.
Jim Taylor asked what do we need to do to get Congress to understand that our ability to forecast energy flows (e.g. for Enron) creates business problems. Answer: help us understand.
Another question. What is role of national labs eg LANL for homeland defense. Answer: big role, developing and applying technologies and assisting agencies like in nuke programs.
Question ?. Answer: science and engineering organizzations are the main source of Congress' expertise. We are running along behind.
Q: ability to gather data like fingerprinting firearms. A: firearms very sensitive, but other types of information also meeting business resistance (accounting, energy trading and flows).
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