1. PUBLICATIONS

Appeared in print:

2. PRESENTATIONS

At dg.o 2005 (Atlanta, May 16-18, 2005):

At the conference sponsored by the Transportation Research Board and held at the National Academy of Sciences Beckman Center in Irvine, CA, May 13:

At the Roche Sigma Xi chapter, Nutley, NJ, May 11:

At the Workshop on Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce, University of Maryland, May 22, 2005:

3. UPCOMING MEETING

JSM 2005 (Minneapolis, August 7-11, 2005).
NISS-organized session "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases" on Monday, August 8th from 2:00 to 3:50 PM.
Presentations are by Max Buot: "Statistical Analysis in the Presence of Matching Uncertainty," Xiaodong Lin: "Privacy Preserving Statistical Analysis for Horizontally Partitioned Data Sets," and Ashish Sanil: "Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analyses of Distributed Data Using Data Perturbations"

4. DG SOCIETY

At the recent digital government research conference in Atlanta (dg.o2005), a group began a discussion about the prospects for a sustainable "community" of people who are interested in discovering and applying new knowledge about digital government. At some point in the future, this community might launch a formal organization, that is, a DG Society, but there is a lot of feeling that first there should be a broad and open discussion about the desirability and dimensions of a "digital government community."

This discussion will take place on line within the next six weeks, via an electronic board. Topics open for discussion include the purpose, values, the needs of government, the role of research, the link between research and practice, and others. At the end of the six weeks, the moderators will summarize the discussions and conduct a short survey leading to proposed mission statements for the community to consider that might serve as a starting point for a more formal organization.

To register for and participate in the discussion, go to http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/mission_welcome.html

5. OTHER ITEMS