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NIST Cast Iron Standard Is Gold To Steel Industry For 90 Years

January 14, 1997

As scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology well know, standards come and go. Since its start in 1901, NIST (then known as the National...

New NIST Measurement Technique Gives Industry "Clearer View" of Better Flat-Panel Displays

January 24, 1997

Just how black is the black in that flat-panel display? Until recently, manufacturers and users of high-contrast electronic displays, such as those used in...

1997 Nobel Prize in Physics - Bill Phillips

Their work combined to create some of the most important technologies of modern atomic physics, which thousands of researchers worldwide employ today for a wide variety of applications. Phillips began his experiments with laser trapping and cooling...

FY 1998 Budget Proposes Funding to Establish Education, Health Care Quality Awards

February 7, 1997

Education and health care organizations would have their own award categories as part of President Clinton's fiscal year 1998 budget proposal for the Malcolm...

New Consortium To Assist Ceramic Processing Industry

February 10, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is forming the Ceramic Processing Characterization Consortium to strengthen the...

One More Time: Latest NIST Stock Study Shows Quality Pays

February 10, 1997

Although you won't hear it quoted on the nightly business news or find it listed in the financial section of your newspaper, the "Baldrige Index" is a winner...

Onoda Joins NIST

February 19, 1997

George Y. Onoda has joined the Ceramics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory in...

New Guidelines May Soon Mean More Buildings Protected By Earthquake Shock Absorbers

March 3, 1997

Slide to the left, slide to the right and don't fall down. No, it's not a new dance, but a building with shock absorbers—a feature that could someday save more...

Prabhakar Leaving NIST; Hebner Now Acting Director

March 12, 1997

Arati Prabhakar, director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, announced today that she will be leaving government...

To Make a Fine Point, New NIST Instrument Analyzes Microscope Tips

March 18, 1997

A new research facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology accepts tips six at a time, in fact. But the tips are not of the monetary variety...

Commerce's NIST to Host Year 2000 Symposium

March 20, 1997

To highlight the urgency of fixing a potentially disastrous problem in many of the nation's computer systems, the Commerce Department's National Institute of...

NIST Astronaut's Shuttle Research Seeks Better Understanding of Combustion

April 2, 1997

Gregory T. Linteris, a 39-year-old engineer at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, will be conducting experiments in outer...

Commerce Department Requests Comments on Possible Changes to Strengthen Advanced Technology Program

April 4, 1997

The Commerce Department's Technology Administration is requesting information from interested parties on ways to strengthen the department's Advanced Technology...

NIST Extends Implementation Date For Fastener Quality Act Until May 1998

April 18, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced through a notice in today's Federal Register that the implementation date...

Twenty-Six U.S. Businesses Try For 1997 Baldrige Quality Award

April 22, 1997

Twenty-six U.S. companies, including nine large manufacturers, seven service companies and 10 small businesses, have submitted applications for the 1997 Malcolm...

Participants Invited to Join Second U.S. Delegation to ASEAN Standards Meeting

April 28, 1997

Representatives from industry; federal agencies; and standards, testing and certification organizations are invited to join a U.S. delegation to a second...

New Technique Helps Scientists Chemically Image Biological and Synthetic Materials

May 5, 1997

Scientists have long relied on infrared spectroscopy as an analytical tool to identify the chemical components of an unknown sample. Likewise, they have used a...

NIST Fellow William D. Phillips Elected to National Academy of Science

May 13, 1997

William D. Phillips, a leading researcher in laser cooling of atoms at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was elected to the National Academy...

NIST to Consider Revised Digital Signature Standard for Federal Agencies

May 13, 1997

In a move intended to broaden the choices federal agencies have when securing information, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...

New NIST 'Webbook' Offers Collection of Chemistry Data Online

May 30, 1997

Envisioned to replace bulky reference books and trips to research libraries, NIST’s new compilation of chemical and physical data, the NIST Chemistry WebBook...

Unit Pricing Changes to Benefit Customers and Retailers are Among the Issues at July Weights and Measures Conference

June 3, 1997

Proposed improvements in the standard that retailers must follow when they voluntarily offer unit pricing information for making value comparisons (between...

New Measurement Capabilities to Support Next Generation of Microchips

June 24, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories and the private sector's SEMATECH...

New Partnership to Enhance Quality of Information Security

August 22, 1997

In a move to assist U.S. information security technology producers in achieving international competitiveness, the Commerce Department's National Institute of...

Biosensors and Biomimetic Membrane Technology Gets Boost From NIST

September 7, 1997

Many U.S. biotech firms are working to develop new medical diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and sensors based on DNA, genetically engineered proteins and other...

NIST to Continue Funding for Chicago Manufacturing Center

September 9, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $2.8 million to fund the Chicago Manufacturing Center for its fourth year...

Public Comments Requested On Proposed Changes To Advanced Technology Program

September 18, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology today published for comment a set of proposed changes to the agency's Advanced...

NIST Names Advisory Board For Manufacturing Extension Partnership

September 18, 1997

Nine prominent industry and economic development leaders have been appointed to serve on the newly created Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Advisory...

New Interface Standard Simplifies Integration of Sensors and Actuators

October 7, 1997

It just got easier to assemble smart sensors and actuators—digital devices that function much like eyes, ears and hands—into control networks that monitor and...

Commerce Department Announces 64 New ATP Awards From 1997 Competition

October 8, 1997

Transgenic tobacco that can be used to produce human insulin, information technology tools that could bring artificial "common sense" to searches on the...

Four U.S. Companies Named Today As Winners Of The 1997 Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award

October 15, 1997

President Clinton and Commerce Secretary William Daley today announced the winners of the 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in recognition of their...

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