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2005 Nobel Prize in Physics - Jan Hall

Hall is known as a preeminent laser experimentalist, concentrating on improving the precision and accuracy with which lasers can produce a

David Wineland leans over a table of lasers to adjust a laser beam

2012 Nobel Prize in Physics - Dave Wineland

The Nobel citation notes that Wineland and Haroche's methods have enabled science to take "the very first steps towards building a new type

2016 Joseph F. Keithley Award - Samuel Benz

Samuel Benz, of PML's Optoelectronics and Photonics Division, has received the 2016 Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and

Bell Prize goes to scientists who proved “spooky” quantum entanglement is real

Sae Woo Nam’s team at NIST is honored for a landmark experiment which, in conjunction with related results elsewhere, put to rest a debate

General Public

There are a number of ways the general public can work with PSCR and contribute to its mission. One way is through PSCR’s funding...

Industry

Industry will be a critical partner in enabling vital communications over a single national LTE broadband network, the Nationwide Public...

Government

PSCR works closely with local, state, tribal, other federal government organizations to achieve its mission to accelerate the adoption and...

Public Safety

Day in and day out our nation’s police, fire, emergency medical services, and other public safety personnel put themselves in harm’s way to...

Power Doubling For WWVB Could Help Keep You On Time In 1998

January 5, 1998

For everyone who made a New Year's resolution to be more on time for meetings and events in 1998, there's good news from the Commerce Department's National

Atomic Clock In Space to Reach New Heights Of Accuracy

January 20, 1998

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology soon will begin work on an advanced laser-cooled cesium atomic clock that will be placed on

MedCognition

PerSim: Realistic, Portable, Low Cost Simulation Honorable Mention Award PerSim trains first responders using augmented reality...

Variable Labs

The Future is Hidden in the Successes of the Past Crowd Voting Award - $5,000 Prize A system which leverages interoperable standards...

Cosumnes Community Services District

Augmented Reality Emergency Response System 4th place - $5,000 Prize Multi-sensor based, indoor positioning technology to simulate a...

UNSN

MultiVRse: Parallel Physical and VR Universes 3rd place - $8,000 Prize Auto VR visualization matching the physical space, untethered...

Design Interactive

Reconfigurable Vehicle Training System 2nd place - $12,000 Prize Training system including a virtually reconfigurable vehicle and...

NextGen Interactions

FirstSimVR: Measuring Future Tools Using Today's VR 1st place - $20,000 Prize A reconfigurable VR platform for evaluating and...

One Electron, Two Electrons...

September 9, 1999

Researchers at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology will announce in tomorrow’s issue of Science magazine that they have

NIST/CU Scientists First to Observe New Quantum Gas

September 9, 1999

Researchers at JILA, a joint research institute of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at

New High-Speed Fiber Optic Network Connects Federal Labs, University and City

May 2, 2000

Benefits of Bran A new, high-speed fiber-optic network capable of sending the equivalent of scores of encyclopedia sets per second is up and running in Boulder

NIST's Cornell Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 2, 2000

Eric A. Cornell, a physicist at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of

New Commerce Department Magnetic Microscope Helps Retrieve Information From Damaged or Altered Tapes

July 13, 2000

Audio cassettes, video tapes, credit cards and computer disks all store valuable information using very small magnetic tracks. Sometimes, these tracks are

NSCI Seminar: Ten Years of Exascale – Are We There Yet?

Thu, Jan 25 2018

The first set of exascale workshops were held ten years ago in the Spring of 2007. Very quickly it was recognized that

NSCI Seminar: Status Report on High Performance Computing (HPC) in Asia

Tue, Dec 5 2017

US leadership in High Performance Computing (HPC), unquestioned for decades, is now challenged, both in hardware and

NSCI Seminar: Algorithmic Adaptations to Extreme Scale Computing

Mon, Nov 6 2017

Algorithmic adaptations to use next-generation computers close to their potential are underway. Instead of squeezing out

NSCI Seminar: Molecular Modeling at the Mesoscale

Tue, Oct 24 2017

Advances in structural, chemical, and biophysical data acquisition (e.g., protein structures via X-ray crystallography

NSCI Seminar: Novel 2D Material Based Devices for Nanoelectronic Computing

Mon, Sep 25 2017

This talk will discuss recent work in developing novel electronic devices based on the emerging family of two

NSCI Seminar: Ultra-low power artificial synapses to enable large-scale neuromorphic computing

Fri, Sep 15 2017

Neuromorphic computing promises to dramatically improve the efficiency of certain computational tasks, such as

2017 Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Challenge

Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Open Innovation Challenge Winners The winners of the Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Challenge...

ACMD Seminar: Part-of-Math Tagging and Applications

Abdou Youssef Department of Computer Science, George Washington University and NIST Thursday, August 10, 15:00 - 16:00Building 101, Lecture...

ACMD Seminar: Binomial and logarithmic Gegenbauer expansions for the even-dimensional polyharmonic equation

Howard Cohl Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, ITL, NIST Monday, August 7, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00Building 101, Lecture Room...

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