The seamless and transparent access to multiple heterogeneous databases with intelligent, integrated run-time reasoning is the major component of a large knowledge-base effort. NSA will develop a prototype environment of the future where the end-user of the data, the application builder, and the data administrator all see, not a collection of relatively unintelligible, difficult-to-access databases, but an integrated information space in terms directly meaningful and accessible to them.
Predictor: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Task Group: High-Performance Computing and Communications Information Technology Subcommittee
Prediction, in context:In a final draft of their Dec. 1, 1993, recommendations for the National Information Infrastructure, members of the High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology subcommittee write the following: ”Information security is a primary mission of the National Security Agency. In pursuing this mission NSA develops security technology and security products. Network securityapplications present significant challenges for the National Information Infrastructure. NSA will initiate programs that address authentication, wireless interoperability and real-time operating aspects of network security. NSA will develop authentication techniques (e.g., biometric) for network access control and will create a mechanism for establishingstandards of security and interoperability in emerging wireless PCs and cellular networks. NSA and NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology] will integrate Smartcard and biometric technology to permit authentication of a person to a network. In collaboration with NIST and hardware and software manufacturers, NSA will develop technology to integrate real time and data communications in a secure multimedia multi-terminal network environment … The seamless and transparent access to multiple heterogeneous databases with intelligent, integrated run-time reasoning is the major component of a large knowledge-base effort. NSA will develop a prototype environment of the future where the end-user of the data, the application builder, and the data administrator all see, not a collection of relatively unintelligible, difficult-to-access databases, but an integrated information space in terms directly meaningful and accessible to them. In support of digital library applications, NSA will develop improved interfaces to information resources, including enhancements to WAIS.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Libraries/Databases
Name of publication: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications - Report of the IITA Task Group: High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology Subcommittee
Title, headline, chapter name: Appendix A: Relationship of Agency Missions to IITA
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/us/iita.txt
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