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Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting

NIST Response to: Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, Section 7: Ensuring Equal Access for Voters with Disabilities NIST Special...

Detecting mid-infrared light, one photon at a time

June 1, 2021

For some 30 years, scientists have used superconducting materials to record the tiniest specks of light imaginable — individual photons, or single particles of

ACMD Seminar: The utility of series and integral representations for the Askey-Wilson polynomials and their symmetric sub-families

Howard Cohl NIST Applied and Computational Mathematics Division Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 3:00 EDT (1:00 MDT) A video of this talk is...

Zeno

Zeno is a software tool which computes physical properties for a particle or molecule. ITL has accelerated the software by a factor of 10,000x.

Trusted Computations from Terabyte-sized Images Using Cluster and Cloud Computing with the Web Image Processing Pipeline (WIPP)

High-end automated microscopes can acquire very large volumes of data, reaching into terabyte territory. These data volumes impose their own constraints. They

2D and 3D image Measurements of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells at Terabyte Scale

Progressive increases in the number of cell therapies in the preclinical and clinical phases has prompted the need for reliable and non-invasive assays to

AI for Low-Field MRI

Emerging low-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems offer the promise of low-cost point-of-care imaging that could be conducted in, for example, rural

Multi-modal AI Models with Application to Precision Medicine

Machine and deep learning (ML/DL) models have been successfully used to systematically analyze various datasets and extract knowledge without having to

Image Texture Directionality Detection for Biomedical Applications and Beyond

Image analytics play a fundamental role in many fields of science, due to the widespread availability of high-resolution image data. However, image texture is a

Molecular Binding Prediction for Drug Design

Multi-molecular complexes play a key role in the regulation of important biological phenomena. The ability to predict their structure and dynamics is a key

Accuracy and Uncertainty of Measurements from 3D Tomographic Reconstructions

NIST has invested into an Innovations in Measurement Science (IMS) project that seeks to develop far field neutron interferometers to create multi-scale images

Quality Assessment of Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Images

Cryogenic electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) has become one of the critical measurement instruments for understanding molecular structures in biomanufacturing

Explainable Artificial Intelligence Based Modeling Applied to OMICS Problems

New biological “’omics” measurements, particularly sequencing-based methods, can produce 10 3 to 10 9 values from biological systems and are transforming

NIST to Hold June Workshop on AI Measurement and Evaluation

May 26, 2021

NIST will hold a virtual workshop on Artificial Intelligence Measurement and Evaluation (AIME) June 15-17, 2021. The three-day workshop aims to bring together

Critical Software Use Guidance

Section 4 of the Executive Order (EO) assigns numerous tasks to NIST and other agencies. One task (4g) is to define the term critical...

Applied Physics in the News

A record of the Applied Physics Division's work in the press The Applied Physics Division's work frequently gets picked up by the press, as...

ACMD Seminar: Efficient neural network training: streaming hyperspherical rotation circuits for neural network gradient compression

Matthew Daniels NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory Tuesday, June 15, 2021, 3:00 EDT (1:00 MDT) A video of this talk is available to NIST...

Workshop and Call for Position Papers on Standards and Guidelines to Enhance Software Supply Chain Security

May 17, 2021

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a virtual workshop on June 2 and 3, 2021 to enhance the security of the software supply

Figure 1 from "Microscopic origin of inhomogeneous transport in four-terminal tellurene devices"

Featured Article in APL 2D Transistors Collection

The Quantitative Nanostructure Characterization group's recent paper titled "Microscopic origin of inhomogeneous transport in four-terminal

Landscape view of buildings and lasers scanning the atmosphere

NIST Laser ‘Comb’ Systems Now Measure All Primary Greenhouse Gases in the Air

June 30, 2021

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their laser frequency-comb instrument to simultaneously measure three

4 Cutting-Edge Research Sessions at PSCR 2021

May 5, 2021

Since 2010, NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division has annually convened stakeholders across public safety, industry, and academia to

Hybrid Ferromagnetic-Superconductor Systems

The Hybrid Ferromagnetic-Superconductor Systems Project investigates how strong coupling between ferromagnetic devices and photons can be used to improve the

PSCR Webinar: Artificial Intelligence for IoT Information Webinar for Applicants

Fri, Jun 25 2021, 10:00 - 11:00am MDT (12:00 - 1:00pm EDT)

The NIST Public Safety Communications Research Division is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity, the Public

PSIAP Artificial Intelligence for IoT Information (AI3) FAQs

Notice of Funding Opportunity - Frequently Asked Questions How do I apply? Applicants must submit their applications materials via grants...

PSIAP Artificial Intelligence for IoT Information (AI3) Prize Competition

Award announcement In February 2022, the PSCR Public Safety Analytics research portfolio awarded one applicant the Public Safety Innovation...

Comments Sought on Updates to Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations (Draft NIST SP 800-161, Revision 1)

April 29, 2021

More than ever, organizations are concerned about the risks associated with products and services that may contain potentially malicious functionality, are