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NIST and NTIA Announce Plans to Establish New Center for Advanced Communications
Release Date: 06/14/2013

Additional Contact: Juliana Gruenwald NTIA, 202-482-2145 BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of … more

New Quantum Dot Technique Combines Best of Optical and Electron Microscopy
Release Date: 06/12/2013

It's not reruns of "The Jetsons", but researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new … more

NIST Researchers Offer Tool to Aid Standards Development, Implementation
Release Date: 06/11/2013

The nice thing about standards, it's been said, is that there are so many to choose from.* Though this tongue-in-cheek chestnut might be an … more

Conferences and Events
Uncertainty Budgets for SOP 4
June 17, 2013

The purpose of this webinar is to enable laboratory metrology staff to specify uncertainties for SOP 4 following the Guide to the Expression of … more

NISTIR 6969 SOP 8 - Part 1
June 17, 2013

This 2 hour webinar will examine SOP 8 and the process of calibrating large tolerance weights. At the end of (or during) this session, using your … more

Information Technology (IT) Security Day, Boulder
June 18, 2013

The NIST Information Technology Security Day is hosted annually as a means to heighten DOC and NIST user awareness of information technology … more