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28 Jul 2015, 12:00 pm
KEI's letter, addressed to the members of the Copyright Office, the Patent and Trademark Office, and the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, calls on those specialized agencies to flag specific problems with the agreement text: Unlike the general public, your voice really matters in this negotiation. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 6:00 am by Vanessa Kurzweil
 The Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative published their principles on June 9, seeking to promote responsible, evidence-based policies for materials that are 1-100 nanometers in at least one dimension. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 7:30 am by aferster
She pointed to Paul Anastas’s vibrant career, which began as a staff chemist at EPA, then brought him to the American Chemical Society, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Yale, and then back to EPA as an Assistant Administrator. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 10:46 pm by Jeff Foust
That provision is timely, since the draft of the Strategic Forces section of the FY15 National Defense Authorization Act, also released Tuesday, calls for the development of such an engine by 2019, authorizing $220 million to spend on the program in FY15.Section 725 calls on the Office of Science and Technology Policy to review the issues associated with protecting historic Apollo landing sites. [read post]
On October 3, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published its “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 7:45 am by Dennis Crouch
Importantly, the “black box” of predictive policing technology obscures from public scrutiny its process for arriving at certain crime predictions, sparking key constitutional and public policy concerns. [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 9:03 pm by Brianna Rauenzahn
In an article in the Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, Lindsey Barrett of Georgetown University Law Center advocates banning facial recognition technology. [read post]
11 May 2021, 7:17 am by Jeff Campbell
Throughout his career, Waldo has been an effective advocate for policies that foster innovation, enable the future of wireless technologies and help bridge the digital divide. [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 10:51 am by Kevin Schmidt
A series of court rulings have held that those visitor logs are presidential records not covered by FOIA, but accessible through presidential libraries years after a president leaves office.Instead, the case filed Thursday by public interest group Public Citizen seeks records of visitors to four agencies housed in the White House complex but with independent legal duties: the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology… [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 1:24 pm by WIMS
Oct 14: The Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, co-chaired by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), released its interagency report -- the Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force -- outlining recommendations to President Obama for how Federal Agency policies and programs can better… [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 7:38 am by Robert Chesney
Charlie Savage reported yesterday that OLC has issued an opinion (available here) concluding that Congress exercised its spending power in an unconstitutional manner when it purported to bar the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy from using appropriated funds to plan or participate in bilateral contacts with China or Chinese-0wned companies. [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 8:14 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“In an unusual development, the White House directed EPIC this week to delete a set of records that EPIC recently obtained from the Office of Science & Technology Policy—a request which EPIC declined. [read post]
21 Jul 2020, 1:16 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“EPIC has obtained hundreds of pages of records (1, 2, 3, 4) from the Office of Science and Technology Policy about the White House’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and proposals to use location data for public health surveillance. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 5:38 am by Jeff Foust
When Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) director John Holdren testified before the House Science Committee four days after the release of the administration’s FY2013 budget, the first question he was asked by committee chairman Rep. [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 9:09 am by admin
” The report also recommended steps to foster interoperability across fields, and called on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to establish a public access advisory committee to foster “periodic assessment of the rapidly changing scholarly publishing landscape, and to provide a forum for discussion of adjustments to agency public access policies in the context of that changing landscape…” The… [read post]
1 May 2013, 9:28 pm by Aurelia J. Schultz
He mentioned that as a result of Kenya's development of an IP policy in 2004, there are 5 public universities with IP policies, 3 Research organizations have IP Policies, 3 Universities have technology transfer offices or companies, 3 Research Organizations have technology transfer offices; there is a Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, a National Commercialization Agency is envisaged, Innovation Funding… [read post]
9 Sep 2013, 1:56 pm by Susan Schneider
He is the deputy director of the FDA Research Center at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China where he lectures each year at the university’s law school.Michael earned his J.D. and B.S. degrees from the University of Utah and his LL.M. from the University of Arkansas.Congratulations, Michael! [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 11:25 am by John J. Cahill
In 2006, the Chinese government pledged to foster future innovation in China by promoting science and technology development in key fields and enhancing innovation capacity. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 6:51 am by Kevin Smith
  As most readers will know, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently collected a wide range of very useful and specific comments in response to a request for information about public access policies for federally-funded research. [read post]