{"id":3746,"date":"2016-09-27T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T00:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2017-08-04T15:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T22:53:23","slug":"cra-congressional-visit-to-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/2016\/09\/27\/cra-congressional-visit-to-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"CRA Congressional visit to Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a Computing Research Association (CRA) effort to introduce policymakers to the contributions and power of IT research for the nation and the world, this month I had the honor of visiting with the offices of four U.S. senators and a U.S. Representative:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/\">Edward Markey<\/a>&#8216;s staffer <a href=\"https:\/\/paocweb.mit.edu\/people\/alec-bogdanoff\">Alec Bogdanoff<\/a>, whom I met with WPI Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/davis.wpi.edu\/dsrg\/MEMBERS\/rundenst\/\">Elke Rundensteiner<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronjohnson.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/home\">Senator Ron Johnson<\/a>&#8216;s staffer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jenna-mathis-74434b22\">Jenna Mathis<\/a>, whom I met with University of Wisconsin Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.cs.wisc.edu\/~markhill\/\">Mark Hill<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/issa.house.gov\/\">Rep. Darrell Issa<\/a>&#8216;s staffer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/robert-rische-02503446\">Robert Rische<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxer.senate.gov\/\">Senator Barbara Boxer<\/a>&#8216;s staffers <a href=\"http:\/\/congressional-staff.insidegov.com\/l\/10342\/Nicole-E-Frazer\">Nicole Frazer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carl-welliver-18b72046\">Carl Welliver<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.feinstein.senate.gov\/\">Senator Dianne Feinstein<\/a>&#8216;s staffers <a href=\"http:\/\/congressional-staff.insidegov.com\/l\/13201\/Tristan-J-Colonius\">Tristan Colonius<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-lynch-b2877788\">John Lynch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Internet-specific topics I discussed included the importance of scientific measurement infrastructure to support empirical network and security research, broadband policy, and Internet governance.<\/p>\n<p>We left them with a terrific infographic from the National Academy study &#8220;<a href= \"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/cs\/groups\/cstbsite\/documents\/webpage\/cstb_080291.pdf\">Continuing Innovation in Information Technology<\/a>&#8220;, which shows the economic impact of different areas of fundamental IT research.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/cs\/groups\/cstbsite\/documents\/webpage\/cstb_080291.pdf\">2-pager flyer<\/a> and the whole National Academy report, <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/CSTB\/CurrentProjects\/CSTB_045476\">Depicting Innovation in Information Technology<\/a>, is available on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Computer Science Telecommunications Board (CSTB) site.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CRA-CSTB-infographic2016-1024x768.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CRA-CSTB-infographic2016-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Continuing Innovation in Information Technology\" width=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CRA-CSTB-infographic2016-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CRA-CSTB-infographic2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CRA-CSTB-infographic2016.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even with many folks in Congress having a higher priority of passing a budget and getting back home to their districts to prepare for elections, all the staffers were gracious and genuinely interested in our field.  (Who wouldn&#8217;t be? \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cra.org\/\">Computing Research Association<\/a> for providing a wonderful opportunity to engage with policy folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a Computing Research Association (CRA) effort to introduce policymakers to the contributions and power of IT research for the nation and the world, this month I had the honor of visiting with the offices of four U.S. senators and a U.S. Representative: Edward Markey&#8216;s staffer Alec Bogdanoff, whom I met with WPI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,6,31,7,11],"tags":[45,43,46,44,49],"coauthors":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}