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The Real Challenge of Big Data

May/June 2014 Recently, whenever I attend meetings or read journal articles, magazines, newspapers, or blogs, I see reference to big data...

NIST Vetting Guide Helps in Testing Mobile Apps to Learn What They Really Do

August 20, 2014

While many mobile device apps such as a calendar or collaboration tools are very handy and can improve productivity, they can also introduce vulnerabilities

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

Mission: SURF is designed to inspire undergraduate students to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) through a unique research experience that supports the NIST mission.

NIST to Establish Research Center of Excellence for Forensic Science

August 19, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a competition to create a Forensic Science Center of Excellence dedicated to

Guidelines for Enhancing Solar Cells Using Surface Plasmon Polaritons

August 15, 2014

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) have established guidelines for using surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) to improve

Liquefied Petroleum Gas Liquid-Measuring Devices Seminar

Mon, Oct 20 - Fri, Oct 24 2014

This 5 day seminar will teach students how to properly inspect and test LPG metering systems, i.e., perform an official

NIST, IAPP Host Privacy Engineering Workshop in September 2014

August 12, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold its second Privacy Engineering Workshop in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 15 and 16, 2014. The

Beyond Six Nines: Ultra-enriched Silicon Paves the Road to Quantum Computing

August 11, 2014

Using a relatively straightforward technique, a team of NIST researchers has created what may be the most highly enriched silicon currently being produced. The

Save the Date: Forensics@NIST 2014 to take place Dec. 3-4

August 13, 2014

Registration: No Charge Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md. NIST, known for advancing measurement science, standards and

It's a Match: NIST and Prince George's County Crime Lab Team Up on Ballistics Research

August 11, 2014

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are working to improve ballistics matching methods with assistance from the Prince George's

NIST 'Global City Teams Challenge' to Create Smart Cities

August 5, 2014

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and several partners today are kicking off the year-long Global City

Draining Test Measures and Provers

Wed, Aug 27 2014

This 1 hour webinar will reinforce the concepts of properly draining test measures and provers. These concepts must be

Emergent Optical Phenomena in Disordered Nanoparticles: Quadrupole Enhanced Raman Scattering (QERS) and Strong Optical Magnetic Plasmons

Mon, Aug 18 2014

The rule of thumb in the design of plasmonic nano-antennae and waveguides is to fabricate, or to synthesize

Electrostatics at the Membrane/Peptide Interface: Utilizing pH Sensitive Spin Labels to Probe the Bilayer Interior

Wed, Aug 13 2014

Polarity, electric potentials, and hydration are the major physico-chemical characteristics of lipid membranes that

An Electron Spin Resonance Analysis of Metal Histidine Coordination In Amyloid-beta

Mon, Aug 4 2014

In this work Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is used to gain more insight into less explored aspects of Cu(II

High-Density Micro Electrodes for Stable Interfaces with Brain and Peripheral Nervous System

Wed, Jul 30 2014

Multielectrode arrays are an essential tool in experimental and clinical neuroscience, yet current designs are severely

Physics and Applications of Plasmonic Metamaterials: From Terahertz to the Ultraviolet

Mon, Jul 28 2014

The field of plasmonics and metamaterials deals with the interaction of light with metallic or metallo-dielectric

Global City Teams Challenge Kick-Off

Mon, Sep 29 - Tue, Sep 30 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and several partners will kick off a year-long Global City

Cybersecurity for Direct Digital Manufacturing Symposium

Tue, Feb 3 2015

Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) involves fabricating physical objects from a data file using computer-controlled

Mass Metrology Seminar

Mon, Mar 16 - Fri, Mar 27 2015

The Mass Metrology Seminar is a two-week, "hands-on" seminar. It incorporates approximately 30 percent lectures and 70

MEP Launches Competition to Fund Manufacturing Centers in 10 States

August 4, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today opened a competition to award new cooperative funding agreements for its Hollings Manufacturing

Updated NIST Guide Provides Computer Security Assessment Procedures for Core Security Controls

August 1, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public comment a draft update of its primary guide to assessing the security and

It's a Dynamic World, Now NIST Can Help You Measure Its Changes

August 1, 2014

Crash-test dummies, yarn-spinning machines and steel girders in bridges. What do they have in common? Look inside them all and you find transducers, devices

6th Cybersecurity Framework Workshop

Wed, Oct 29 - Thu, Oct 30 2014

Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, directed NIST towork with stakeholders to

Registration Opens for the Next Cybersecurity Framework Workshop

July 31, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a workshop on the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Oct. 29 and

NIST Announces New Competition for Advanced Manufacturing Planning Awards

July 30, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a new competition for planning awards to support industry-driven consortia in

Readying Your Community to Deal with Disaster

July 29, 2014

This week, experts are meeting at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Hoboken to discuss how communities can prepare themselves to minimize the impacts of

NIST, HHS Sponsor 7th Annual Conference on Healthcare Information Security

July 29, 2014

The seventh annual "Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security" conference will be held September 23-24, 2014, in Washington, D

Latest NIST Mass Spectral Library: Expanded Coverage, Features

July 29, 2014

The world's most widely used and trusted resource for identifying mass spectra, the "fingerprints" of molecules, has undergone a major expansion, according to

2nd Privacy Engineering Workshop

Mon, Sep 15 - Tue, Sep 16 2014

Privacy is a challenging subject that spans a number of domains, including law, policy and technology. Notwithstanding

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