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An image of Ernest Kent from NIST’s Industrial Systems Division is analyzed by the Pipelined Image Processing Engine (PIPE) in 1986.

Computer Vision 1986

An image of Ernest Kent from NIST’s Industrial Systems Division is analyzed by the Pipelined Image Processing Engine (PIPE) in 1986. PIPE was an image
Harry Keegan seated at mechanical calculator CIE color coordinates of standard sources, 1958

Calculating Color

Harry Keegan of NIST’s Photometry & Colorimetry Division using a mechanical calculator in 1958 to compute color coordinates for standard sources.
A 300,000-volt simulated lightning bolt produced in NIST’s high-voltage measurement laboratory in 1984.

Lightning in the Lab

A 300,000-volt simulated lightning bolt produced in NIST’s high-voltage measurement laboratory in 1984. NIST helped utilities and manufacturers determine what

Thermodynamics Research Center

Welcome to the Thermodynamics Research center (TRC) Our group has been evaluating, curating, and sharing data in the thermophysical property...

ACMD Seminar Series

The Applied and Computational Mathematics Division holds a regular Seminar Series with participation in both the Gaithersburg and Boulder...

TRC History

Inception, NIST 1942 TRC (formerly the Thermodynamics Research Center) was founded in 1942 by Dr. Fredrick D. Rossini, Chief of the Section...
Testing Stucco Panels at NIST

NIST Tests Home Construction

A giant Rubik’s Cube? An early modernist-style building? We weren’t sure what to make of this photo taken on the NIST campus in 1911. Turns out it was a two
Johnson Noise Thermometry Chip

Noise, Temperature, and the New SI

NIST has recently made substantial improvements to its Johnson-noise thermometry system, which is playing a vital role in the worldwide effort to determine the

2017 NIST Time and Frequency Seminar

Tue, Jun 6 - Fri, Jun 9 2017
NIST Time and Frequency Division's annual seminar covers clocks, oscillators, atomic frequency standards, rf and optical

Open Innovation Prize Challenges 

Crowdsourcing the best and brightest with financial awards PSCR's Open Innovation program focuses on advancing public safety communications...

Grants and Cooperative Agreements

Current & upcoming funding opportunities Funding opportunities are a staple of public-private partnerships. PSCR has been proud to work with...

Funding Opportunities

Extramural research funded by the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program PSCR not only conducts internal research but has also put...

Bell Test Data - compressed

All links go to files stored in the Amazon web service cloud. alice 2015_09_18 00_44_CH_pockel_100kHz.run3.alice.dat.compressed.zip 286.8 MB...

Bell Test Data - code

All links go to files stored in the Amazon web service cloud. analysis DataProcessingDescription.pdf 114.7 kB bell_analysis_code.zip 750.7...

PSCR Test and Results Files

Test Audio Clip and Results Files Following are audio files created from the clean, high-quality, talker-only and background noise-only...

PSCR Audio Source Files

Talker and Background Noise Source FilesFollowing are clean, high-quality, talker-only and background noise-only audio files. These files...