UC Berkeley Academic Senate Committee on

Computing and Communications (COMP)

Thursday October 14, 2004, 10:00-12:00

3401 Dwinelle

Agenda

 

Moderator: Arthur Ogus

 

  1. Review of the proposed policy and plan on Data Management, Use, and Protection defined by the Data Stewardship Council (specific request from IS&T and the EVPC) (DM, 15 min)

 

  1. Challenges in the implementation and promulgation of the campus Minimum Security Standards for Networked Devices (specific request from IS&T) (AO, 20 min)

 

Comments by Arthur Ogus based on conversations with others

 

  1. Possible privacy concerns and issues regarding public access and control of Webcam’s on campus (see Ken Goldberg’s Demonstrate for a current example) (KG, 15 min)

 

Some issues:

Purpose?

Benefits for the campus?

Benefits for others?

Privacy

Impact on criminal or terrorist activity

 

  1. Conducting Senate business electronically (DM, 20 min)

 

Request from DIVCO

Letter from Committee on Rules and Elections

Our committee’s response (posted Nov 4 and revised Nov. 15)

 

  1. Preliminary Departmental computing survey results (handed out at the last meeting): what can we learn from them? (AO, 15 min)

 

  1. Areas of focus and methodology for gathering best practices in Departmental computing? (DM, 15 min)

 

Possible areas of emphasis:

Faculty governance of departmental computing

Funding models for departmental computing

Scope of departmental computing services and support

Campus vs departmental partitioning of services and support

Hwdr/softwr standards