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Gaithersburg

Keeping Their Cool

Are you happy when it's hot or cold? Well, your vaccines have specific requirements to be happy. And if they're not happy, they just won't...

General Requirements for CAB Designation

The applicant conformity assessment body (CAB) must meet the following requirements: Location of the CAB The CAB must be located in the...

Iris Experts Group II (IEG-II) May 2017 Meeting

Date: Thursday, 25, May 201 Location: Lecture Room D, Administration Building, NIST Campus, Gaithersburg MD 20899 Registration: IEG-II...

Designation Requirements for Australia

Introduction The governments of the United States and Australia signed binding exchange letters to implement Phase I of the Asia Pacific...

Designation Requirements for Singapore

Phase I: Testing Laboratories The Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA formerly IDA) is the regulatory authority for...

The EMNIST Dataset

What is it? The EMNIST dataset is a set of handwritten character digits derived from the NIST Special Database 19 and converted to a 28x28...

Emerging Technologies in Healthcare

Joshua Franklin Received the ATARC Mobile Innovation Award

Joshua Franklin received the ATARC Mobile Innovation Award for his leadership and technical excellence in the mobile space on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at the ATARC Federal Mobile Computing Summit.

Kevin Stine - 2017 Federal 100

Kevin Stine. Chief, Applied Cybersecurity Division received 2017 Federal 100 Award. Through Stine’s leadership, NIST has expanded its program to address the nation’s cybersecurity challenges and accelerate implementation of standards and best...

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Presents Four Organizations with Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

April 3, 2017

BALTIMORE—Noting that “this public-private partnership generates $1 billion per year in economic impact,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross presented four...

Standards: Enabler of Sustainability

Wed, May 17 - Thu, May 18 2017

AN ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY WORKSHOP Sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Michigan State University

Former Advisory Board Member: Chris Weiser

Resigned from the Board November 2020

NanoFab Tool: AnnealSys RTA

The AnnealSys model AS-Master is a single wafer rapid thermal process system supports anneal processing in the NanoFab cleanroom. This tools supports anneals

Graphene Lid Revitalizes Imaging Technique

March 31, 2017

By capping liquids with graphene, an ultrathin sheet of pure carbon, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their...

Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association (FISSEA) 30th Annual Meeting

Mon, Jun 19 2017

NIST/FISSEA will host a one day FISSEA Meeting on Monday, June 19, 2017. Sunny days are here again. There were many

MED 2017 Evaluation

The Multimedia Event Detection (MED) track is part of the TRECVID Evaluation. The 2017 evaluation will be the eighth MED evaluation which...

Brass Line Scale

This brass scale, 1 foot subdivided to 12 in, 10-1/10 in, 4-1/4 in, is marked “Brass foot scale of C.& G.S. [Coast and Geodetic...

French Nested Weights

This set of nested brass weights totaling 1 kilogram was received from France by the Office of Weights and Measures in the United States...

Off-specular scattering Ewald construction

MAGIK Offspecular Reflectometer

The MAGIK reflectometer complements the Polarized Beam Reflectometer and the Horizontal-Geometry Reflectometer in providing specialized capabilities for

Measuring Acceleration with Light

March 29, 2017

Most people have never seen an accelerometer -- a device that measures change in velocity -- and wouldn’t know where to look. Yet accelerometers have become...

Magnetic Imaging of Bits in Hard Disk Media using Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy

Mon, Apr 10 2017, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

We are living in a time of big data where over an exabyte (10 9 GB) of new information is generated every day. One of

5505: Fundamentals of Metrology

Mon, Dec 4 - Fri, Dec 8 2017

The Fundamentals of Metrology seminar will introduce the participant to the concepts of measurement systems, units

Ralph Orwick bending over a tungsten electrode welder

Welding for Ultrahigh Vacuum

April 3, 2017

April is National Welding Month, a time dedicated to highlighting accomplishments in this important field. At NIST in the 1960s, Ralph Orwick of the NIST...