The Web Scene » Combat http://www.cpccci.com/blog Web Design, SEO and Internet Marketing by CPC Computer Consultants - www.cpccci.com and www.cpcwebsolutions.com Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:32:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Minority Students Needed in Math and Science to Combat ‘Brain Drain,’ Professors Say http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2010/03/12/minority-students-needed-in-math-and-science-to-combat-brain-drain-professors-say/ http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2010/03/12/minority-students-needed-in-math-and-science-to-combat-brain-drain-professors-say/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:55:08 +0000 sparky3887 http://www.cpccci.com/blog/?p=1794 Three mathematics and science professors called on the U.S. government to support institutional programs that have succeeded in attracting and retaining minority students during a recent Congressional briefing session. Arizona State University professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez said that most of the Hispanic and American-Indian students who participate in the university’s math and science honors program, a high school summer residential program, pursue science majors. Spelman College professor Sylvia T. Bozeman said her school’s summer programs, in addition to the recruitment, advising, and mentoring efforts of the math and science faculty, have helped to get more young black females interested in mathematics. Castillo-Chavez said the talents of U.S. citizens will need to be developed if the country is to make up for the brain drain of Chinese and Indian scientists and mathematicians who have begun to return to their home countries. He noted that institutions such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will not be able to produce all the math and science graduates that the U.S. needs. “We have to produce large numbers of extremely well-qualified scientists and mathematicians,” he said. “It’s not going to take place at the elite universities, but at schools with limited resources.” The mathematics-education experts also said Congress should increase spending on undergraduate scholarships and for the National Science Foundation.

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]]> http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2010/03/12/minority-students-needed-in-math-and-science-to-combat-brain-drain-professors-say/feed/ 0 In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy Deterrent http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2010/01/28/in-digital-combat-us-finds-no-easy-deterrent/ http://www.cpccci.com/blog/2010/01/28/in-digital-combat-us-finds-no-easy-deterrent/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:52:58 +0000 sparky3887 http://www.cpccci.com/blog/?p=2325 The U.S. government is exploring ways to combat and deter cyberattacks from abroad. After a recent Pentagon simulated cyberattack, it became clear that the enemy had all the advantages–stealth, anonymity, and unpredictability. The situation has led some in the government to compare it to that of the Cold War era, and there is intense debate inside and outside the government about what the United States can realistically threaten. Diplomatic demarche, formal protest, economic retaliation, and criminal prosecution have all been suggested as possible responses to increased cyberattacks. “We are now in the phase that we found ourselves in during the early 1950s, after the Soviets got the bomb,” says Harvard University professor Joseph Nye. The Internet has blurred the line between military and civilian targets because an enemy can cripple a target without ever aiming at the government or military, which hinders the U.S. Department of Defense’s authority to intervene. The U.S. government has responded to increasing cyberattacks by creating a new United States Cyber Command, run though the Defense Department.

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