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Taking Measure

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Justyna Zwolak

Marie Skłodowska-Curie: A Legacy of Innovation and Empowerment for Women in Science

March 12, 2025

Growing up in a country where the first scientist to win a Nobel Prize was a woman helped inspire a NIST researcher to pursue her career in science.

NIST researcher Justyna Zwolak reads a book about Ada Lovelace to her young daughter

Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer Who Predicted Artificial Intelligence

March 22, 2023

During Women’s History Month, I am remembering Ada Lovelace’s contributions and thinking about the impact she had on me as a scientist and mathematician.

Ebb and Flow: Creating Quantum Dots Automatically With AI

June 2, 2020

Even though research on artificial intelligence (AI) goes back to the 1960s , it wasn't until the past decade that AI really became an integral part of our

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