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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. Big Data: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13541.
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Report of a Workshop on Big Data

Committee for Science and Technology Challenges to
U.S. National Security Interests

Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
                                   OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS
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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. Big Data: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13541.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This study was supported by Contract HHM402-10-D-0036 between the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Academy of Sciences. Any views or observations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. Big Data: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13541.
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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. Big Data: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13541.
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COMMITTEE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES TO U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS

J. JEROME HOLTON, Tauri Group, Chair

EDWARD M. GREITZER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vice Chair

BRIAN BALLARD, APX Labs

KENNETH I. BERNS, University of Florida College of Medicine

ANN N. CAMPBELL, Sandia National Laboratories

DEAN R. COLLINS, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Retired)

SHARON C. GLOTZER, University of Michigan

J.C. HERZ, Batchtags, LLC

KENNETH A. KRESS, KBK Consulting, Inc.

DARRELL LONG, University of California, Santa Cruz

JULIE J.C.H. RYAN, George Washington University

JANET A. THERIANOS, Independent Consultant (USAF, retired)

ELIAS TOWE, Carnegie Mellon University

ALFONSO VELOSA III, Gartner, Inc.

ELI YABLONOVITCH, University of California, Berkeley

Staff

TERRY JAGGERS, Lead DEPS Board Director

DANIEL E.J. TALMAGE, JR., Study Director

SARAH CAPOTE, Research Associate

MARGUERITE SCHNEIDER, Administrative Coordinator

DIONNA ALI, Senior Program Assistant

CHRIS JONES, Financial Associate

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. Big Data: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13541.
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Preface

The workshop described in this report is the first in a series of three workshops, held in early 2012 to further the ongoing engagement among the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Technology Insight—Gauge, Evaluate, and Review (TIGER) Standing Committee, the scientific and technical intelligence (S&TI) community, and the consumers of S&TI products. A restricted version of this report is available by contacting the Public Affairs Office of the sponsoring agency (Defense Intelligence Agency) directly.

We express our appreciation to the members of the Committee for Science and Technology Challenges to U.S. National Security Interests for their contributions to the development of this report. We are also grateful for the active participation of many members of the technology community in the workshop, as well as to the sponsor for its support. The committee also expresses sincere appreciation for the support and assistance of the NRC staff, including Terry Jaggers, Daniel Talmage, Sarah Capote, Marguerite Schneider, Zeida Patmon, and Dionna Ali.

J. Jerome Holton, Chair

Edward Greitzer, Vice Chair

Committee for Science and Technology

  Challenges to U.S. National Security Interests

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. Big Data: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13541.
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Acknowledgment of Reviewers

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

Gilman Louie, Alsop Louie Partners,

David Maddox (NAE), Consultant,

Alton Romig (NAE), Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, and

Mikhail Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley.

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the views of individual participants, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Louis J. Lanzerotti (NAE), New Jersey Institute of Technology. Appointed by the NRC, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

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In 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached the National Research Council's TIGER standing committee and asked it to develop a list of workshop topics to explore the impact of emerging science and technology. From the list of topics given to DIA, three were chosen to be developed by the Committee for Science and Technology Challenges to U.S. National Security Interests. The first in a series of three workshops was held on April 23-24, 2012. This report summarizes that first workshop which explored the phenomenon known as big data.

The objective for the first workshop is given in the statement of task, which explains that that workshop will review emerging capabilities in large computational data to include speed, data fusion, use, and commodification of data used in decision making. The workshop will also review the subsequent increase in vulnerabilities over the capabilities gained and the significance to national security. The committee devised an agenda that helped the committee, sponsors, and workshop attendees probe issues of national security related to so-called big data, as well as gain understanding of potential related vulnerabilities. The workshop was used to gather data that is described in this report, which presents views expressed by individual workshop participants.

Big Data: A Workshop Report is the first in a series of three workshops, held in early 2012 to further the ongoing engagement among the National Research Council's (NRC's) Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate, and Review (TIGER) Standing Committee, the scientific and technical intelligence (S&TI) community, and the consumers of S&TI products.

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