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Welcome to the monthly newsletter for the National Science Foundation's Digital Government program. dgOnline is published for the NSF by the Digital Government Research Center at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. http://www.dgrc.org. To edit your account settings, retrieve your new password or unsubscribe, please visit this page: http://mailman.isi.edu/mailman/listinfo/dgonline . Latest Program News: DG Puts Eyes on a Crumbling Coastline Ohio State University researchers are collaborating with the state's natural resource department, parsing erosion data to predict the future shape of the Great Lakes' volatile coastlines. http://www.digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2003/1003/1003_osu_heyman.jsp DG Researchers Encode the Shipping Lanes A joint U.S. Coast Guard / Arizona State AI Lab project is developing a common language to smooth traffic for myriad vessels plying the world's waterways. http://www.digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2003/1003/1003_miml_heyman.jsp New DG Program Announcement in the Works NSF/CISE regroups, putting Digital Government into the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. A new DG program announcement is expected in November. http://www.digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2003/0803/0803_cise_allhands.jsp Marchionini Earns JASIST's Best Paper Award DG researcher Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina takes 2002's top honors for his work on Web interface evolution at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://www.digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2003/1003/100303_marchionini_reed.jsp SSCORE Invites Papers on Voting Technology Social Science Computing Review puts out a call for papers for a special issue on voting, elections & technology http://www.digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2003/1003/1003_sscore_call.jsp OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST: Brown Survey Rates Major Cities' e-Government Sites Brown University releases its annual survey of metropolitan e-government usability http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2003-04/03-030.html NSF Awards Extend Middleware Development Efforts in Testing, Portals and Instrumentation $9 million in grants to the National Middleware Initiative further the National Science Foundation's goals of building shared tools for the cyberinfrastructure. http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0399.htm DG Project Gives Teeth to Forensics Field Researchers from West Virginia University, Michigan State University and the University of Miami devise an automatic system for matching dental records. http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/tip030922.htm Liberty Bell Web Portal Unites History and Technology NSF and NPS have created a new web portal to feature the history and technology surrounding the Liberty Bell's journey to its new home this month. http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/ma0341.htm NSF Announces Three Awards to Extend the Reach of Terascale Facility The NSF has awarded $10 million to Indiana and Purdue universities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Texas to enhance the capabilities of NSFÕs Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr03107.htm OMB Issues Policies on Systems, Web Privacy (From Government Computer News) http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/23729-1.html Verisign Says ICANN is Stifling Net's Progress (From Government Computer News) http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/23754-1.html ICANN to Verisign: Stop It (From Government Computer News) http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/23751-1.html EVENTS OF INTEREST: Researchers, sponsors and administrators are invited to participate in plenary discussions and poster sessions on effective practices for facilitating interdisciplinary research. Keynote speakers include the National Science Foundation's Rita Colwell, the Department of Energy's Raymond Orbach and the National Institutes of Health's Lawrence Tabak. The two-day event begins on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2004 in the National Academies' Keck Center, 500 Fifth St. N.W., Washington, D.C. The pre-registration deadline is Wednesday, Oct. 15. http://www7.national-academies.org/interdisciplinary/Convocation_web.html PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST: FGIPC Strategic PLanning Working Groups Report: Major Issues Facing Government Today http://www.fgipc.org/strategic_plan/Major_Issues_Facing_Government_Today_Working_Group_1.pdf PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS OF INTEREST: NSF Human Language and Communication http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03613/nsf03613.htm NSF Digital Society and Technologies http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03611/nsf03611.htm NSF Human Computer Interaction http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03610/nsf03610.htm NSF Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03600/nsf03600.htm NSF Robotics http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03601/nsf03601.htm NSF Computer Vision http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03602/nsf03602.htm Universal Access http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03612/nsf03612.htm Information Technology Workforce http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03609/nsf03609.htm Information and Data Management [nsf04500] http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04500/nsf04500.htm Use these tools on DigitalGovernment.org:
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