We're
having a birthday party and we want you (and your audience)
to help us celebrate!
Reporters
and photographers are invited to attend the activities scheduled
for "History and Reunion Day" on March 5, 2001, as the National
Institute of Standards and Technology honors its first 100
years and looks forward to the next.
NIST,
an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration,
was founded in March 1901 as the National Bureau of Standards.
Technologies as diverse as smoke detectors, dental drills,
machine tools, integrated circuits, highway bridges, airplane
guidance systems, satellites, DNA "fingerprints" and computer
encryption software embody NIST's technical handiwork. Activities
as routine as timestamping stock trades, buying macaroni
at the local deli or metering electrical power usage rely
on NIST tools for ensuring accuracy and equity in the marketplace.
And, pioneering endeavors such as "freezing" atoms, "seeing"
gravity waves, automated driving and quantum computing get
a technical assist from NIST. In fact, almost everything
you come in contact with in your daily life-be it at home,
at work or in your community-has a connection to NIST.
For
more information on our history, check out the Centennial
web site at www.100.nist.gov.
DATE:
Monday, March 5, 2001
PLACE:
Administration Bldg. (Bldg. 101), NIST, Gaithersburg, Md.
Take
I-270 North to Exit 10, enter NIST at first traffic light
and follow signs to Bldg. 101. Media registration will be
inside the Bldg. 101 lobby.
EVENTS:
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Symposium on NIST History (Red Auditorium,
Building 101)
NIST
history expert Jim Schooley hosts a series of distinguished
alumni (including four former directors), friends and NIST
researchers (including Nobel Laureate William Phillips and
space shuttle astronaut Greg Linteris) at NIST's Gaithersburg
and Boulder, Colo., sites in discussions about NIST's past,
present and future.
3:00
p.m. Filling of the NIST Centennial Time Capsule (Red Auditorium)
3:20
p.m. Opening of "NIST in Your Community" Exhibit (Main Lobby)
An
interactive journey through 100 years of NIST achievements
is debuted.
3:30
p.m. Reception for NIST Staff (Cafeteria)
Invited
guests include Senators Paul Sarbanes and Barbara Mikulski;
Congresswoman Connie Morella, Montgomery County Executive
Douglas Duncan and Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz.
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