Consider the Internet for 2020 census, panel says

Computerworld: The U.S. Census Bureau needs to consider a major overhaul of how it will count the population 10 years from now, perhaps replacing mailed-in forms with Internet forms, the National Research Council reported last month.

The Census Bureau -- now working on the 2010 decennial census -- is still using the same techniques it used in 1970: mailed-in forms and follow-up enumeration using pencil and paper. The bureau had to ditch an ill-fated effort to use handheld computers for this year's census.    Read Article

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