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The History and Future of Quantum Information Credits/Feedback

Project Manager: Robin Materese Writer: Ben P. Stein Editors: Jennifer Huergo, Robin Materese Original Illustrations: Natasha Hanacek...

Enhancing Optical/Electron Phase Microscopy for Biological Applications

Mon, Jun 11 2018, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

Optical phase contrast microscopy and cryo-electron microscopy are widely used in the study of cells and proteins

Automatic Error Detection Using Runtime Verification

Mon, Apr 9 2018, 2:30 - 3:30pm EDT

Runtime verification (RV) is a relatively new software analysis approach, introduced by Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL) and

ACMD Seminar: Why are crystal facets mathematically interesting? A continuum-scale story with a microscale touch

Professor Dionisios Margetis Department of Mathematics and Institute of Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College...

SBC Computer Security Library

Publications NISTIR 7621 Revision 1, Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals (11/2016) Framework for Improving Critical...

Baldrige Award Ceremony honoring the 2018 Recipients

Sun, Apr 7 2019

Closed captioning will be available at a later date. F acebook Live Event: Please visit the NIST Facebook page to view

Development of surface functionalized engineered nanomaterials for biological applications

The main research theme is the design and implementation of novel surface functionalities on engineered nanomaterials, by chemical approach, for their

Can This Invasive Exotic Pest Make Better Materials for Industry and Medicine?

May 4, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined derivatives of two surplus materials—wood pulp and dried-up pieces of an...

NICE Introduces New Apprenticeship Subgroup

March 28, 2018

NICE has launched the Apprenticeship Subgroup, a new public working group within the charter of the NICE Working Group. Girish Seshagiri and Jennifer Carlson...

5534: Mass Metrology Seminar

Mon, Oct 15 - Fri, Oct 26 2018

The Mass Metrology Seminar is a 2 week, "hands-on" seminar. It incorporates approximately 30 percent lectures and 70

News and Updates

July 2025: NIST Video Provides Technical Update on Hurricane Maria Investigation As NIST moves toward completion of its study of Hurricane...

Joshua Franklin Receives Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Joshua Franklin for receiving the Federal 100 Award. Franklin literally wrote the book on mobile device security. He had a huge impact last year as one of the authors of NIST’s Mobile Threat Catalogue, and he was responsible for...

Donna Dodson Receives Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Donna Dodson for receiving the Federal 100 Award . Dodson was a seasoned and steady influence on federal cybersecurity policy in 2017 as new leaders settled into the White House, the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense...

Naomi Lefkovitz Receives Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Naomi Lefkovitz who received the Federal 100 award for promoting the development of trustworthy systems that protect individuals’ privacy and civil liberties. In 2017, she published a NIST Internal Report that introduces a systems...

NIST Releases Draft NIST Special Publication 800-160 Volume 2, Systems Security Engineering: Cyber Resiliency Considerations for the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems

March 21, 2018

The United States continues to have complete dependence on information technology deployed in critical infrastructure systems and applications in both the...

Distinguished Visitor Talk at the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computer (Kno.e.sis)

Fri, Mar 2 2018

Ram D. Sriram, Chief of ITL’s Software and Systems Division, gave a Distinguished Visitor Talk entitled "Transforming

5551: Compressed Natural Gas / Retail Motor-Fuel Dispenser

Mon, Apr 16 - Thu, Apr 19 2018

This 4-day seminar will teach students how to conduct an official examination by properly applying all applicable NIST

Unconventional computing with memristive devices and arrays

Fri, Mar 23 2018, 1:00 - 2:00pm EDT

Memristive devices have become a promising candidate for unconventional computing. In this talk, I will present some of

The Second Quantum Revolution

NIST’s Carl Williams and others believe we’re in the midst of a new revolution in quantum physics. The first revolution enabled inventions...

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Quantum Information Applications Without Computers

You don’t even need a quantum computer for many powerful applications of quantum information. Many useful things can be done with the...

Cryptography in the Quantum Age

So if—and when—researchers build a quantum computer that can carry out Shor’s algorithm, is encryption dead? All hope is not lost, thanks to...

The Race to Build a Quantum Computer

Quantum computing remains challenging to implement in practice. The tiniest disturbances can destroy superpositions in qubits. And an...

Quantum Logic Gates

Traditional computers are like microscopic cities. The roads of these cities are wires with electricity coursing through them. These roads...

The Strange World of Quantum Physics

Quantum computers would get their special powers by exploiting the strange rules of the very small, such as quantization. In our everyday...

NIST Jump-Starts Quantum Information

NIST had a major head start in quantum information in the 1990s. NIST researchers already had qubits—but under a different name. “They’re...

Quantum Supremacy

Researchers are no longer focused solely on building a quantum computer that could carry out Shor’s algorithm and break encryption codes...

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Introduction: A New Quantum Revolution

Peanut butter and chocolate. Rice and soy sauce. Milk and cookies. When two good things get together, they can create something even better...

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'Hard Rock' Standard Reference Material Makes Identifying Chemicals in Mine Waste Easier

March 20, 2018

Across the American West’s Rocky and Sierra mountains, miners dug for gold, silver, zinc and lead to make their fortunes in the Gold Rush of the 19th and early...

Research Performance Progress Report Format and Instructions

The RPPR is used by recipients to submit progress reports to NIST on their grant awards and cooperative agreements. The RPPR instructions...

TESCAN MIRA3 for automated electron microscopy

A TESCAN MIRA3 Schottky field-emission scanning electron microscope with 4 30 mm 2 silicon x-ray drift detectors which has been automated for particle and

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