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An Early Warning System for Damage in Composite Materials
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NIST Director Describes New Privacy Framework (Speech)
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A Better Pregnancy Test for Whales

It’s not easy to do pregnancy tests on whales. You can’t just ask a wild ocean animal that’s the size of a school bus to
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Universe in the Balance

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to link measurements made by a

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Applied Category Theory Workshop

Wed, Apr 8 - Thu, Apr 9 2020
The focus of this workshop in on fostering the development of tooling and use-cases supporting the applied category