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Senate Confirms May as 15th NIST Director

May 5, 2015

Washington, D.C. – On May 4, 2015, the U.S. Senate confirmed Willie E. May as the second Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the 15th

IREX datasets

The data used in IREX comes from publicly available datasets and from operational data provided by various branches of the US Government...

A Point Process Model for Evacuation Flows: The Hawkes Mode

The primary motivation for this work is the fire in the World Trade Center towers, which generated an urgent need to better understand evacuation procedures in

Statistics for Food and Supplement SRMs

SED has had a long and extensive collaboration with the Materials Measurement Laboratory in working toward the certification of standard reference materials

Photonic Thermometers: Out of the Lab, Into a Bucket of Water

April 28, 2015

A new class of tiny chip-based thermometers being developed by PML's Sensor Science Division has the potential to revolutionize the way temperature is gauged

NIST Center for Neutron Research

A national user facility that advances economic and technical excellence in the U.S. by providing world-class neutron measurement capabilities to meet the needs of researchers from industry, academia, and government.

Engineering Laboratory

The Engineering Laboratory promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology for engineered systems in ways that enhance economic security and improve quality of life.

Information Technology Laboratory

Cultivating Trust in IT and Metrology

NIST Seeks Community Input on Disaster Resilience Planning Guide

April 28, 2015

Guest blog post by Willie May, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Acting NIST Director. When disaster strikes, communities

Statistical Process Monitoring for Autocorrelated Data

Develop statistical approaches to monitor process mean, process variability, and process capability indices for autocorrelated data.

Optics and Photonics: Essential for Our World

Wed, May 20 2015

The science and technology of light are essential to a multitude of applications that have transformed our society, and

Detecting Effects of 3D Shapes in Nanoscale Chip Features

April 27, 2015

As microchip feature dimensions approach atomic scale, it becomes formidably difficult to measure their size and shape. According to the International

NIST Releases Draft Community Resilience Planning Guide for Public Review

April 27, 2015

Remarks by Dr. Willie E. May, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Acting NIST Director, at the Launch of the NIST Community

Statistical Methods for Quantitative Imaging

Modern imaging systems produce massive amount of data that can be used to obtain critical 3D information on targeted measurement objects (nodules), including

Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop VIII

Tue, Jul 7 - Fri, Jul 10 2015

To show federal leadership and support for the NIST technology role in U.S. Government agency adoption of cloud

NIST Open Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop

Thu, Jun 25 - Fri, Jun 26 2015

Since 2001, the NIST Multimodal Information Group has coordinated evaluations of Machine Translation (MT) technology

Compatibility Assessment and Bias Estimation for Standard Reference Materials

NIST produces a number of food-matrix Standard Reference Materials. A problem that frequently occurs in their analysis is one of assessing compatibility of data

Quantifying Uncertainty in Accelerometer Sensitivity Studies

To compare the sensitivity of linear accelerometers.

Maps of Non-hurricane Non-tornadic Extreme Wind Speeds for the Contiguous United States

The goal of this project is to propose a new set of maps of extreme wind speeds for the next revision of Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures

'Standing Room Only' for PML's Hands-On Dimensional Metrology Workshop

April 22, 2015

Earlier this month, PML's Dimensional Metrology Group hosted a three-day hands-on training event for 13 industry and government attendees. The class was given

NIST and NSF Partner to Launch Industry-University Consortium to Provide Input on National Advanced Manufacturing Research and Development Priorities

April 22, 2015

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that they will