The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched the Unlinkable Data Challenge with a $50k grand prize! The challenge aims to advance approaches to differential privacy, a term introduced by Dwork, McSherry, Nissim, and Smith in 2006, which refers to the privacy loss that occurs when an individual’s information is used in the manufacture of a large dataset. NIST is calling for concept papers that propose “a mechanism to enable the protection of personally identifiable information while maintaining a dataset’s utility for analysis.” How to Participate: The Unlinkable Data Challenge is a multi-stage Challenge.  This first stage of the Challenge is intended to source detailed concepts for new […]

Check out the following updates from the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Attend the Tech Jam Update (June 20-22, Portland, Oregon, USA) Register here  More than 20 action clusters working with municipal governments will present at the Tech Jam on June 20. Speakers include: Kris Bailey, COO, Electric Cab of North America Arik Bronshtein, CEO, UrbanLeap Sudipta Bhattacharyya, IoT Solution Lead, Nokia Benjamin Ng H. A., Assistant Vice President (Head of USA), Concorde USA & Singapore Hiroaki Nishi, Chairperson of the Consortium for Town Management of Misono and Professor, Keio University Limor Schafman, Director, Smart Buildings, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) The list of on-stage presentations is available here. Data SuperCluster (DSC) […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate are co-hosting the 2018 kickoff conference for the GCTC – Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3) on February 6-7, 2018 in Washington, DC. The GCTC-SC3 conference will be immediately followed by IES-City Framework Release Workshop on Feb 8. GCTC community members may choose to stay one more day and join the IES-City Workshop as well. The agenda of GCTC-SC3 kickoff conference will be made available in a few weeks. The goal of kickoff conference is to encourage smart community/city and Internet of Things (IoT) stakeholders to build teams to address shared issues in various sectors […]

The 2017 Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Expo on August 28-29 in Washington, DC will bring together over 100 cities and communities around the world in partnership with more than 300 companies, universities, non-profits, and federal government agencies to share and exhibit their smart city projects and the impacts to their communities. See the agenda here. There will be over 200 speakers at the Expo, including the industry speakers below: Wilfred Pinfold, CEO, Urban Systems Ken Thompson, Deputy Director, Intelligent Water Solutions, CH2M Steve Wimsatt, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Ruckus Wireless Jennifer Robinson, Director of Local Government Solutions, SAS Derick Lee, Founder and Chief Architect, PilotCity Scott Pomeroy, President, Scalable Strategies […]

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $38.5 million to 33 research and development (R&D) projects aimed at advancing broadband communications technologies for first responders. The multiyear grants are intended to help modernize public safety communications and operations by supporting the migration of data, video and voice communications from mobile radio to a nationwide public safety broadband network, as well as accelerating critical technologies related to indoor location tracking and public safety analytics. NIST reviewed 162 proposals from a diverse pool of national and international applicants across industry, academia and public safety organizations. The 33 selected projects span five key technology areas that have […]

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the release of a draft Special Publication (SP) on Securing Wireless Infusion Pumps in Healthcare Delivery Organizations, which is now available for public comment. This is an important area that Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Kevin Fu from the University of Michigan has been working in for many years. In February 2016, Fu attended the White House meeting of medical device security stakeholders and domain experts to discuss the cybersecurity challenges faced by healthcare delivery organizations and medical device manufacturers. In March 2017, the New York Times released an article called It’s Possible to Hack a Phone With Sound Waves, Researchers Show, which highlights Fu’s […]