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Proposal for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence (SP 1270)

This document has been superseded by a final version, NIST Special Publication 1270.

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NIST Method Uses Radio Signals to Image Hidden and Speeding Objects

June 25, 2021

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Wavsens LLC have developed a method for using radio signals to create real-time

2021 EFTF Young Scientist Award - David Leibrandt

For exceptional scientific creativity and achievement in designing and implementing state-of-the-art trapped-ion optical clocks with the

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NIST-Led Study Finds Variations in Quantitative MRI Scanners’ Measurements

June 30, 2021

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used in medicine to detect, diagnose and treat diseases such as cancer, while relying on experts’ interpretation of

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The NCCoE Releases Preliminary Draft Report on Ransomware Risk Management

June 10, 2021

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new preliminary draft report, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Enhancing Software Supply Chain Security: Responses to Call for Position Papers on Standards and Guidelines

Comments Received in Response To: Enhancing Software Supply Chain Security: Workshop and Call for Position Papers on Standards and...

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...