Jon Eisenberg is a senior program officer
with the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
of the National
Academies, where he directs studies on a range of information
technology policy issues. His current research includes
a study examining the role of information technology research
in realizing electronic government and an examination of
policies and strategies to accelerate deployment of residential
broadband access.
Recently completed studies include a review of the
Department of Defense's Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) plans and programs
and an exploratory effort on how to foster increased
research on the economic and social impacts of information
technology.
In 1995-7 he was an AAAS Science, Engineering, and
Diplomacy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International
Development where he worked on technology transfer
and telecommunications policy issues. He received his
Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington
in 1996, and B.S. in Physics with honors from the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988.
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