SID in the News

Who are we and how can we help you? Listed below are various press releases, articles, and news items describing our work and how it impacts you and your community.

• NIST Prototypes Framework for Evaluating Sustainability Standards- (NIST Techbeat, April 2011)
  
• Moss Grows Quickly on Logistics - (American Shipper, August 2010)
  
• Word/Logic Bank to Help Build 'Thinking' Machines - (Science Blog, May 2008)
• U.S. Plan for "Thinking Machine" Repository - (Slashdot, May 2008)
• Word/Logic Bank to Help Build 'Thinking' Machines - (NIST Tech Beat, May 2008)
• Sharing, Not Panicking - (Interview provided by Federal News Radio, April 2008) "The National Institutes of Standards and Technology is holding a workshop that looks at how agencies would share information in the event of an emergency. It's the Collaborative Expedition Workshop in Maryland -- and it happened today. Josh Lubell works in NIST's Manufacturing Systems Integration Division and talks to us about some possible solutions." To listen to the interview, click here [WMA file].
  
• Viewpoint: Steven Ray on Information Standards in Manufacturing - (Int. J. Product Lifecycle Management, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2007)
• An Intrepid Guide to Ontologies - (Michael K. Bergman, AI3, May 2007)
• Ontology Summit 2007 Communiqué - (Commergence, May 2007)
• SME Names Top Young Leaders in Manufacturing Engineering - (Industry Week, May 2007)
• Interoperability Week 2007 (French) - (Bulletins Electroniques, April 2007)
• You got your folksonomy in my ontology! - (GCN, April 2007)
• Inspection Planning for Metrology Interoperability - (Manufacturingtalk.com, March 2007)
• Ontology Summit 2007: Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksomony Distinctions - (Citizens Party , March 2007)
• Ontologies - (Knowledge Management Tools, Februrary 2007, NOTE: See page 4 for Interoperability Week 2006 coverage)
• Tool Helps Write Rules for XML Communication - (NIST Tech Beat, December 2006)
• Systems Engineering Modeling Language Becomes a Standard - (NIST Highlight, August 2006)
• The Language of Shapes - (Portland's Daily Journal of Commerce, July 2006)
• Expert Voices- (CIO Insight, July 2006)
• Modern Relics - NIST and others work on how to preserve data for later use - (Government Computer News, Volume 25, Issue No. 16, June 2006)
• Shared Theories on Thought Could Lead to Smart Machines - (Lockergnome, May 2006)
• Shared Theories on Thought Could Lead to Smart Machines - (ScienceDaily.com, May 2006)
• Teaching Computers Common Sense - (Scenta.co.uk, May 2006)
• Shared Theories on Thought Could Lead to Smart Machines - (Physorg.com, May 2006)
• Shared Theories on Thought Could Lead to Smart Machines - (NIST Tech Beat, April 2006)
• NIST's Upper Ontology Summit Considered "A Watershed for the Semantic Web" - (dataWarehouse.com, April 2006)
• MSID Staff Publications Make Top 25 List - (Science Direct, April 2006)
• NIST Conference to Focus on Interoperability - (EETimes.com, March 2006)
• Feds Can Spur Use of Interoperability Standards - (Federal Computer Week, March 2006)
• Interoperability Will Improve Health Care - (Government Health IT, March 2006)
• Interoperability Standards Event Set for March 13-17, 2006 - (NIST Tech Beat, March 2006)
• Helping Small Firms Run Large Supply Chains - (NIST Tech Beat, January 2006)
• Found In Translation - (IEEE Intelligent Systems, December 2005)
• American Standard - How NIST is Pursuing Simulation Standardization (The Manufacturer US, September 2005)
• Experts to Examine Virtual Enterprise Uses of Info Tech - (NIST Tech Beat, September 2005)
• NIST Develops 'Toolbox' for Manufacturing Systems - (NIST Tech Beat, August 2005)
• NIST's et.gov Site Opens Up New Frontiers - (Government Computer News, July 2005)
• Computers Get The Meaning - (Information Week, June 2005)
• High-Speed CMM Scanning...Really - (Quality Digest, June 2005)
• Metrology Guidelines - Dimensional Markup Language (DML) Developed - (Manufacturing Engineering, May 2005, Vol. 134, No. 5)
• Disruptive Technologies: Semantic Web - (Managing Automation, April 2005)
• AIAG's Metrology Interface Specification Could Save Industry Hundreds of Millions of Dollars - (AIAG Press Release, April 2005)
• Helping Future Engineers Use Today's Design Plans - (NIST Tech Beat, February 2005)
• Capital Facilities Industry Joins the Information Revolution - NIST Tech Beat, October 2004)      See also - FIATECH AEX Project Publishes Version 1.0 of XML Schemas for Capital Facilities Equipment  (FIATECH Press Release, July 2004)
• Lack of Supply Chain Standards Costing Billions of Dollars - (NIST Tech Beat, July 2004)
  
• Lean, Green & Smart - (Industry Week, May 2004) - PDF
• Standardizing Disaster Models to Help First Responders - (NIST Tech Beat, February 2004)
• PDES, Inc. Selects Brad Rigdon Technical Management Award Winner -- Simon Frechette - (PDES, Inc., October 2003)
• Automotive Industry Action Group Interoperability Project to Reduce Auto Industry Costs by $255M - (Automotive Industry Action Group [AIAG], June 2003)
• NIST Study Shows Industries Taking a Big STEP to Savings - (NIST News Release, December 2002) - View the report, Economic Impact Assessment of the International Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP) in Transportation Equipment Industries.
• Software Errors Cost U.S. Economy $59.5 Billion Annually - (NIST News Release, May 2002) - View the report, Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Software Testing.
• Lost in Translation: $1 Billion - (NIST News Release, April 1999) - View the report, Interoperability Cost Analysis of the U.S. Automotive Supply Chain.