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3D Laser Scanner Runoff Pushes New Standard Towards the Finish Line

May 25, 2016

Update: The work that was described in this article led to the publishing of the ASTM E3125-17 standard in December 2017. Large-volume 3D laser scanners play...

Summary of Workshop on Measurement Assurance Strategies for Cell Therapy Products

Description: There is a need for improved measurements and standards for the field of regenerative medicine and cell therapy products. A...

About Standards.gov

Standards.gov is administered by the Standards Coordination Office (SCO) at NIST. This site provides: information about the use of...

DiameterJ

Need: The most common approach to characterizing electrospun fibers for tissue engineering applications has been to image them by scanning...

NSCI Seminar: New Technologies for Improved Computer Performance

Tue, Dec 20 2016

Tremendous progress has been made in building computer systems with higher performance over the last several decades

NSCI Seminar: Leading-Edge Computers and the Extraordinary Research They Enable

Tue, Oct 4 2016

A new generation of supercomputers—petascale computers—is providing scientists and engineers with the ability to

NSCI Seminar: The Sensible Machine Grand Challenge

Tue, Jun 21 2016

The Sensible Machine concept started with an OSTP RFI response by Stan Williams and grew over six months into a IEEE-led

NSCI Seminar: Progress in Superconducting Computing

Tue, Jun 7 2016

Since the 1950s, there have been several efforts to develop a computer based on superconducting logic. Each was

NIST and Stanford Launch Long-Term Measurement Initiative to Boost the U.S. Bio-Economy

May 20, 2016

STANFORD, Calif.—The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford University announced today that they are...

HUD Cites NIST's Community Resilience Planning Guide Among Aids to State and Local Governments

May 20, 2016

As part of its efforts to encourage communities to consider their resilience to natural hazard risks, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...

X-ray Metrology for the Semiconductor Industry Workshop

Thu, Aug 25 - Fri, Aug 26 2016

The semiconductor industry is in need of new, in-line dimensional metrology methods with higher spatial resolution for

IUSR Overview

The Problem When companies or organizations make large purchase decisions for software, they currently have little visibility into the...

The IUSR Project: Industry USability Report

DATE: August 10, 1999 This document is an overview of the Industry USability Report (IUSR)) Project. The IUSR Project is designed to help...

IUSR - Major Project Milestones

September 18, 1997Steering Committee formed with NIST sponsorship in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human...

Top Ten Things You Should Know About the CIF

For product suppliers: Do: Explain the CIF to your development team. Make sure they understand how this is different from a formative...

What is the CIF?

The ANSI/INCITS-354 Common Industry Format (CIF) for Usability Test Reports is a standard method for reporting usability test findings. The...

Development of a First-Generation Community-Resilience Systems Model

This project aims to help communities become more resilient to tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. It does so by developing

Standardization Coordination

Standards effectively expedite trade and stimulate economic growth when they are developed, maintained, and applied in accordance with...

Federal Policy on Standards

The US Government’s role in the development and use of standards and conformity assessment is guided by the National Technology Transfer and...

Publications

NIST Publications NIST has developed a variety of publications that support a deeper exploration of certain standardization and conformity...

Illustration shows a tornado with statistics about the Joplin tornado's deadliness and destructiveness.

Progress Toward National Resiliency: NIST Marks Joplin Tornado 5th Anniversary

May 19, 2016

Disaster struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, when the deadliest and costliest single tornado in U.S. history left a 35-kilometer (22-mile) long path of...

Right Size + Right Chemistry = Right Stuff for Plastics Manufacturing

May 19, 2016

Plastic manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Now, research performed in part at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revealed...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2015 Publication

B.J. Wing, " Mobile ID Device Best Practice Recommendation Version 2.0 Special Publication 500-280 v2" (NIST SP 500-280 v2) P.J. Grother, J...

NIST Forensic Scientist Helps Vietnamese Counterparts Identify Wartime Remains

May 18, 2016

In a Hanoi, Vietnam, hotel conference room, Mike Coble led a group of scientists through a series of calculations. Coble's presentation was heavy on the...

SSR 2016: Security Standardisation Research Image

3rd International Conference on Research in Security Standardisation

Mon, Dec 5 - Tue, Dec 6 2016

Over the last two decades a very wide range of standards have been developed covering a wide range of aspects of cyber

Standards and Conformity Assessment Training for Government Agencies

Providing no-cost training to the staff of federal, state, and local agencies who need to navigate or participate in standardization...

NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program

Enriching college curricula to raise awareness of the role of standards and standardization in science, technology, engineering, math, law...

NSRL and Voting System Software

NIST's National Software Reference Library collects software from various sources and incorporates file profiles computed from this software...

NSRL Unique File Corpus

The NSRL keeps one copy of each unique (as defined by a SHA-1 hash string) file encountered in processing. Each file is assigned an integer...

Diskprints

The NSRL RDS and its associated database contain file-based metadata about software derived from installation media. While this metadata is...

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