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Gaithersburg

ACMD Seminar: Towards Fully Accessible Data Visualisation

Volker Sorge School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK Thursday, June 8, 2017, 15:30 - 16:30Building 101, Lecture Room...

Reference Tables

Normal Boiling Points [K] of Cryogenic Fluids Melting Points [K] of Soft Metals Helium-3 3.19 Indium 430 Helium-4 4.21 Cadmium * 594...

PID Temperature Control

NOTE: This page contains the general guidelines for PID tuning. Contact a member of the sample environment team for more information about...

TEAM MEMBERS

Tanya Dax Responsibilities: CCRs, Furnaces Phone: 301-975-8889 Email: tanya.dax [at] nist.gov (tanya[dot]dax[at]nist[dot]gov) Cedric Gagnon Responsibilities: NG3-SANS Sample...

Computation with Time

Mon, Jun 5 2017, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

In this talk I will introduce a novel, brain inspired from of computation, which encodes information in time, instead of

Measurement Science for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Program Videos

Videos from the Measurement Science for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Program Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition 2019...

Rodney Petersen and NICE Team - Received the Exemplary International Leadership in Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development Award

Congratulations to Rodney Petersen and The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) who received an award for Exemplary International Leadership in Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development from Cyber New Brunswick at Canada's...

Inmetro's Brazilian Industry Guides

As part of the ongoing cooperation between the World Trade Organization Agreement (WTO) on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Inquiry Points...

The President’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity Workforce: Next Steps and How to Engage

Mon, Jun 5 2017, 12:00pm EDT

The PowerPoint slides used during the webinar can be downloaded here. Speakers: Tyson Meadors

Black and white photo of NIST’s first librarian, Dr. Aristide Fanti

QA to QC Thanks to Dr. Fanti

June 1, 2017

If you have ever discovered a useful library book in the QA to QC shelf number range (Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics), you have NIST’s Aristide Fanti to...

Intrinsic Properties: The Secret Lives of Accelerometers

May 30, 2017

Accelerometers — devices that measure change in velocity — are built into automobiles, airplanes, cell phones, pacemakers, and scores of other products...

Marcus Cicerone Receives 2016 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Dr. Marcus Cicerone was recently recognized for outstanding federal service through seminal contributions to the field of label-free chemical imaging, by introducing broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) microscopy, and to the field...

Software and Systems Division - Topic Areas

Interoperability / Conformance Testing Software Identification and Quality Metrics Software-Based Measurements Standards

Tucking in to NIST’s ‘3D Printer’ Testbed

May 25, 2017

3D printing of metal objects is a booming industry, with the market for products and services worth more than an estimated $2.3 billion in 2015 – a nearly five...

Top image is classical orbit. Bottom image: electron with different physical state.

Researchers Develop Magnetic Switch to Turn On and Off a Strange Quantum Property

May 25, 2017

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when she started. But for electrons and other subatomic...

NIST-FDA Flow Cytometry Workshop: Building Measurement Assurance in Flow Cytometry

Wed, Oct 25 2017

NIST Organizers: Lili Wang, John Elliott, Sheng Lin-Gibson FDA Organizers: Steven Bauer, Heba Degheidy, Judy Arcidiacono

Migler Receives Washington Academy of Sciences Award

Dr. Migler was recognized for the design and application of innovative optical and rheological experimental techniques to definitively measure and affirm key physical phenomena of polymer fluid flow.

Sixth Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE VI)

Wed, May 31 2017

Agenda: SATE overview Classic track Ockham criteria track Mobile track General discussion The classic track combines the

NSRL Partner Projects

Computer Forensic Tool Testing Project (CFTT) Computer Forensic Reference Data Sets (CFReDS)

NSRL Download

Current RDS Hash Set Non-RDS Hash Sets RDS Query Tools Legacy Tools

The New Standard for Resistance Standards?

May 22, 2017

Contrary to the popular maxim, resistance is not futile. But it is quantized: The ratings of the heat-making resistors in your hair dryer or toaster ultimately...

Dr. Hamid Gharavi - Received the Distinguished Career in Science from the Washington Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Dr. Hamid Gharavi of the Advanced Network Technologies Division received the WAS Distinguished Career in Science Award for 2017. Dr. Gharavi is recognized for his extraordinary research accomplishments in the fields of information...