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Adaptive Mesh Refinement Benchmark Problems Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) Guide to Available Mathematical Software...

ACMD Programs/Projects

Adaptive Mesh Refinement Benchmark Problems Automated Combinatorial Testing for Software Digital Library of Mathematical Functions Future...

Getting to NIST Gaithersburg

Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Md. 20899 Site status update (for weather and other closures): (301) 975-8000 and (800) 437-4385...

Projects/Programs

Current Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) [ trec.nist.gov] Text Analysis Conference (TAC, now part of TREC) [ tac.nist.gov] TREC Video...

Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security - 2016

Wed, Oct 19 - Thu, Oct 20 2016

NIST and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are pleased to co-host the 9th

Methods and Standards for Measurement of Atmospheric Aerosol Radiative Properties

Aerosols represent the second largest contributor to atmospheric heating after CO 2. Aerosol optical properties are poorly understood, resulting in the largest

Fort Collins, Colorado, Making Community Resilience a Reality Using NIST Guide

July 28, 2016

Guided in part by strategies and procedures developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for creating effective and affordable...

Tips on Searching for Standards

The following information should help guide you to find the standards document you seek. ICS codes An ICS (International Classification of...

Learn More About Standards

Why You Need Standards Technical standards keep us safe, enable technology to advance, and help businesses succeed. They quietly make the...

NIST's Network-of-Things Model Builds Foundation to Help Define the Internet of Things

July 28, 2016

A new publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a basic model aimed at helping researchers better understand the...

New Model May Help Solve the Mystery of How Lithium Stabilizes Moods

July 27, 2016

New measurements may have lifted the veil on the vexingly elusive interactions through which lithium can moderate the manic highs and debilitating lows...

NSCI Seminar: Electrical and Physical Characterization of Nano- and Non-Linear Devices for Future Computing

Tue, Sep 20 2016

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED With the end of Moore's Law in sight, there is a great deal of angst in the information

Realizing the Potential of Quantum Information Science and Advancing High-Performance Computing

July 27, 2016

The White House announced today a new report from the National Science and Technology Council on challenges, opportunities and the path forward in quantum...

NSCI Seminar: Benchmarking Beyond CMOS Logic for Computation

Tue, Aug 16 2016

Benchmarking of beyond-CMOS exploratory devices for logic integrated circuits is presented. It includes new devices with

Characterization of Two Dimensional Materials with High Resolution Instrumentation

Mon, Aug 1 2016

High resolution characterization allows researchers to study important problems at the atomic scale in a variety of

Commerce Secretary Appoints New Members to Baldrige Award's Judges Panel

July 25, 2016

Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker recently appointed four new members to three-year terms on the Judges Panel for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award...

ISO/TC 276 Resources

Resources to support the work of individuals involved in standards development, additional information can be found here. General...

Scope and Working Group Structure

RMAT Laboratory Programs

The NIST Regenerative Medicine and Advanced Therapies (RMAT) laboratory programs are focused on developing innovative measurement assurance solutions and

This magneto-ionic thin film, made primarily of aluminum oxide, gadolinium oxide and cobalt, allows oxygen ions to travel up and down through spaces between the layers when pushed by an electric field.

NIST Reveals Valuable Fundamentals of a Stacked, Cracked Jack of All Trades

July 22, 2016

There is a crack in everything, Leonard Cohen sang; that's how the light gets in. Now a team led by scientists from the National Institute of Standards and...

Disaster Resilience Grants Research Program Federal Funding Opportunity Webinar

Thu, Aug 25 2016

NIST will hold a webinar on August 25, 2016 to provide general information regarding the Disaster Resilience (DR) Grants

Funding Opportunity to Produce a Science Documentary

Tue, Aug 16 2016

This webinar will provide general information about NIST's funding opportunity to develop, produce, and distribute a

An Extraordinary Standard: New NIST Protein Could Spur Biopharmaceutical Innovation

July 28, 2016

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued one of the world's most intricate measurement standards: an exhaustively...

Research Focus Areas

The Forensic Science Research Program accelerates the development of science-based measurement methods, standards, tools, and assessments to...

The NIST Smart Space Project - Microphone Array

Presentation Speech SNR Measurement Documentation Downloads

The NIST Smart Space Project - Data Flow

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Testing Tools

NIST currently leads significant test tool development efforts within the healthcare industry providing testing support in the following...

Book entitled: Healthcare Interoperability Standards Compliance Handbook

Publications & Presentations

NIST provides the conformance tests, test tools and techniques to advance healthcare information technology standards that are complete and...

Illustration of prefilling a carbon nanotube with a desired chemical of known properties.

Simpler, Faster and Cheaper: A Full-filling Approach to Making Carbon Nanotubes of Consistent Quality

July 15, 2016

Just as many of us might be resigned to clogged salt shakers or rush-hour traffic, those working to exploit the special properties of carbon nanotubes have...

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