The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that summarizes the high-level interdisciplinary discussions that took place during the Raymond and Beverly Sackler U.S.-U.K. Scientific Forum “The Frontiers of Machine Learning” took place on January 31 and February 1, 2017, in Washington, D.C. The field of machine learning continues to advance at a rapid pace owing to increased computing power, better algorithms and tools, and greater availability of data. Machine learn...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that identifies challenges to establishing a real-time system-wide safety assurance (RSSA) system and the high-priority research that should be implemented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other interested parties in government, industry, and academia to expedite development of such a system. RSSA is one of six focus areas for the NASA aeronautics program. NASA envisions that an RSSA system ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has summaries of the presentations and discussions from its June 13, 2017, workshop that explored the impacts of economic, demographic, and social issues in rural communities and to learn about asset-based approaches to addressing the associated challenges. The role of transportation is a major theme in the Proceedings’ focus on equitable access to health and health care. Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United S...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that examines which interventions (programs, systems, and policies) are most promising to prevent injuries and death from alcohol-impaired driving, the barriers to action and approaches to overcome them, and which interventions need to be changed or adopted. This report makes broad-reaching recommendations that will serve as a blueprint for the nation to accelerate the progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalit...

The National Academy of Engineering’s Center for Engineering Ethics and Society (CEES) released summarizes of presentations and discussions from a January 11–12, 2017, workshop designed to help the engineering community identify institutional and cultural challenges to instilling ethics in engineering programs; and to develop approaches, programs, strategies, and collaborations to overcome those challenges. The workshop was a follow-on activity to the 2016 CEES report Infusing Ethics into the Development...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released the proceedings of a December 2016 workshop designed to help better understand the importance of affordable and accessible housing for older adults and people with disabilities, the barriers to providing this housing, the design principles for making housing accessible for these individuals, and the features of programs and policies that successfully provide affordable and accessible housing that supports community living for olde...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that examines the effectiveness of the use of the percentile ranks produced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA’s) Safety Measurement System (SMS) for identifying high-risk carriers, and if not, what alternatives might be preferred. In addition, this report evaluates the accuracy and sufficiency of the data used by SMS, to assess whether other approaches to identifying unsafe carriers would identif...

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Forum on Public–Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety has released a summary of the presentations and discussions from a workshop this is part of a series to examine potential opportunities to engage the private sector and develop partnerships to advance health and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In September 2015, the SDGs were adopted at the United Nations Development Summit to serve as a 15-year plan of...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable has released a publication that briefly summarizes the presentations and discussions from a meeting held on February 28 and March 1, 2017, to explore trends in public opinion of science, examine potential sources of mistrust, and consider ways that cross-sector collaboration between government, universities, and industry may improve public trust in science and scientific institutions in the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report provides an overview of the structure and management of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership as well as the major achievements associated with the goals of the Partnership. This report follows on four previous reviews of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership, which was the predecessor of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership. Since the previous review Toyota, Hyundai, and Honda have made available within the United States a limited number of fu...