The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
The John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University, with support from the National Science Foundation, are sponsoring a workshop on "The Machinery of Representation: Voting Technologies and the 2000 Presidential Election." This workshop will focus on the epistemological and sociotechnical dimensions of the contested vote in Florida, examining the issues raised for science and technology studies (S&TS), as well as for related political, policy, and legal analysis.