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NICE Director Participates as Witness During U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Hearing

February 11, 2020

Rodney Petersen, the Director of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), participated as a witness during the House Science Subcommittee on...

Fig. 1. Die containing 285 superparamagnetic tunnel junctions.

Spintronics for Neuromorphic Computing

One promising new approach to next generation information processing is spintronics, where information is carried by electronic spin rather than charge. Among

Cooperating Organizations

The Hurricane Maria Team comprises researchers and support staff primarily from NIST who are building on many decades of the agency’s...

Recognizing NIST Entrepreneurship

February 18, 2020

This week kicks off National Entrepreneurship Week across the country. This event was congressionally chartered in 2006 with a mission to highlight acts of...

Advancing the State of Machine Learning for Manufacturing Robotics

Workshop at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference July 12, 2020 14:00 - 16:00 UTC 10:00 - 12:00 EDT NOTE: The RSS 2020...

5640 Fundamentals of Metrology - CANCELLED

Mon, Jul 27 - Fri, Jul 31 2020

NIST is closely monitoring guidance from Federal, State, and local health authorities on the outbreak of COVID-19. To

Gears illustrating NIST's cell-free systems initiatives

Metrology For Cell-Free Expression Systems

The Cellular Engineering Group works to provide metrology for rapid, successful translation of safe, effective bioproducts based on cell-free expression systems

Opposite sides of a quartz crystal resonator

Universe in the Balance

February 12, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to link measurements made by a device integral to microchip...

A Spin Wave Detective Story: NIST Researchers Verify Surprising Behavior in a 2D Magnet

February 18, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a surprising feature in two-dimensional (2D) magnets, a new class of...

5620 Volume Metrology Seminar - CANCELLED

Mon, Apr 20 - Fri, Apr 24 2020

NIST is closely monitoring guidance from Federal, State, and local health authorities on the outbreak of COVID-19. To

Microbial Cell Quantification Methods – Toward Whole Cell Reference Materials

Reference materials (RMs) consisting of whole microbial cells characterized for total cell number and total DNA are needed to evaluate and compare cell counting

DARPA Friend or Foe (FoF) – Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)

The development of new platforms for characterization of complex microbial samples are hampered by lack of reproducibility and comparability across different

More Hires, Fewer Hacks: Developing the U.S. Cybersecurity Workforce

February 11, 2020

Introduction Chairwoman Stevens, Ranking Member Baird, and Members of the Subcommittee, I am Rodney Petersen, Director of the National Initiative for...

Atomistic tools for structure-property investigations

This project provides and develops novel computational infrastructure (i.e. data archives, open-source codes, APIs) that support the design, execution, and

Advanced Materials Design: Electronic and Functional Applications

Using methods such as electronic structure (such as density functional theory, tight-binding, quantum Monte Carlo), force-field, machine-learning and quantum

Jennifer Dootz

Ms. Dootz joined the Complex Microbial Systems Group in 2019 as a Biological Science Technician. Her duties include: Assist in making and...

Advanced Materials Design: Structural Applications

An integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) approach is employed to link experimental and computational models across a variety of time and length

RM 8376 Microbial Pathogen DNA Standards for Detection and Identification

Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing (mNGS) promises to revolutionize infectious disease diagnostics. However, the analytical performance of this technology

Policy Machine and Next Generation Access Control

To solve the interoperability and policy enforcement problems of today’s access control approaches, NIST has developed a specification and...

Control Policy Test Technologies (ACPT and ACRLCS)

Faulty policies, misconfigurations, or flaws in software implementation can result in serious vulnerabilities. The specification of access...

2020 Accomplishments

Fig. 1. Time re-Envisioned: Not a biproduct of computation but the domain in which information is encoded. Leads to different mathematical functions becoming energy efficient primitives.

Temporal Computing

The human brain does some types of information processing, like speech recognition, image recognition, or video processing, much more efficiently than can be

A117 - Prototyping Space

Available Instrumentation and Equipment

NIST-Funded Studies

NIST has a leadership role within a large group of public and private stakeholders and aids this group in establishing goals, measuring...

A107 - Sample Environment Lab

Available Instrumentation and Equipment

IEC/TC 65 & ISO/TC 184 JWG 21 Meeting

Wed, Apr 15 - Fri, Apr 17 2020

NIST is closely monitoring guidance from Federal, State, and local health authorities on the outbreak of COVID-19. To

Software Tools

The Biosystems and Biomaterials Division (BBD) develops measurement technologies to bolster the bioeconomy and foster innovation. To support...

Facial Recognition Technology (FRT)

February 6, 2020

Introduction Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member Rogers, and Members of the Committee, I am Chuck Romine, Director of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)...

Write-Protected Drives

DHS Reports -- Test Results for Write-Protected Drives (Find all DHS Reports here) The Federated Testing Hardware Write Block test suite is...

PSCR Differential Privacy and Synthetic Data Workshop

Thu, Apr 9 2020

NIST is closely monitoring guidance from Federal, State, and local health authorities on the outbreak of COVID-19. To

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