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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...

NIST Physicist William Phillips Wins 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 15, 1997

William D. Phillips, a leading researcher in ultra-low temperature atomic physics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, today was named a co...

New Study Reports ATP Can Significantly Accelerate New Technology Development

October 23, 1997

The Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program is having a significant impact in accelerating the pace of technology development, according to a new...

TGDC Meeting - September 11 & 12, 2017

Mon, Sep 11 - Tue, Sep 12 2017

EAC and NIST are pleased to announce the upcoming meeting of the TGDC on September 11-12, 2017, at the U.S. Election

2015 Fulbright fellowship - Glenn Solomon

NIST has a long-standing program in quantum information science that includes creating coherence in quantum dots — a type of nanostructure — that can lead to everything from single photon sources to the core components of quantum computer — a so...

Jay Hendricks Named 2015 Fellow of the American Vacuum Society

For exceptional contributions to vacuum science and for developing new and revolutionary vacuum standards and methods through promoting excellence in vacuum measurement as well as being a mentor to early career scientists and engineers.

Gretchen Campbell Receives 2015 Young Scientist Prize

For her outstanding contributions in toroidal Bose-Einstein condensates and its application to “atomtronic” circuits.

scanning electron micrograph of a single phononic-crystal cell

New Design Lets Micro-Clock Resonators Ring Like a Bell

August 30, 2017

You can’t hear most of them, but the world is running on different kinds of mechanical oscillations. For example, inside the average electronic wristwatch is a...

NIST Renews Award For Improved Manufacturing Technology For Internal-Combustion Engines To Extrude Hone, Ford, GM

November 3, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that it will renew a multiyear research award under the Advanced...

NIST Renews Award To 3-D Pharmaceuticals For Technologies To Study Key Cellular Proteins

November 3, 1997

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that it will renew a multiyear research award under the Advanced...

NIST Renews Award To Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. For Advanced Ceramic Coatings Technology

November 3, 1997

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that it will renew a multiyear research award under the Advanced...

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