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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

NIST/CHiMaD: Workshop on Coarse-Grained Modeling of Polymers and Soft Materials for the Materials Genome Initiative

Wed, Aug 6 - Thu, Aug 7 2014

The grand challenge of the Materials Genome Initiative is the development of a national infrastructure for data sharing

Model-Based Enterprise Summit 2014

Tue, Dec 16 - Thu, Dec 18 2014

The purpose of the Summit is to identify challenges, research, implementation issues, and lessons learned in

Enhanced NIST Instrument Enables High-speed Chemical Imaging of Tissues

July 22, 2014

A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with the Cleveland Clinic, has demonstrated a dramatically improved...

NIST Shows Ultrasonically Propelled Nanorods Spin Dizzyingly Fast

July 21, 2014

Vibrate a solution of rod-shaped metal nanoparticles in water with ultrasound and they'll spin around their long axes like tiny drill bits. Why? No one yet...

High Throughput Second Order Nonlinear Optical Imaging and High Frame-Rate Lissajous Scanned Imaging

Mon, Jul 28 2014

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are typically required to be sufficiently hydrophobic to pass through lipid

Fill 'er Up: NIST Develops Prototype Meter Test for Hydrogen Refueling Stations

July 21, 2014

To support the fair sale of gaseous hydrogen as a vehicle fuel, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a...

Tunneling Anisotropic Magneto-Seebeck Effect

Tue, Jan 14 2014

Due to their ubiquitous presence in spinning hard-drive technologies and growing potential as commercially viable memory

Photoluminescence of the Titanium Dioxide-Effect of UV Light and Adsorbed Molecules on Surface Band Structure

Mon, Jan 13 2014

The photoluminescence (PL) of powdered titanium dioxide at 529.5 nm (2.34 eV) has been found to be a sensitive indicator

NIST Exhibits at IMTS 2014

Mon, Sep 8 - Sat, Sep 13 2014

The IMTS Conference brings the industry together, under one roof and at one time, to discuss new opportunities. Network

Tattoo Recognition Technology-Challenge (Tatt-C)

The Tattoo Recognition Technology – Challenge (Tatt-C) was conducted to challenge the commercial and academic community in advancing research and development

AMTech Webinar

Thu, Aug 14 2014

On July 30, 2014, NIST announced the 2014 competition and call for applications (proposals) for AMTech Planning Awards

AMTech Webinar

Thu, Aug 7 2014

On July 30, 2014, NIST announced the 2014 competition and call for applications (proposals) for AMTech Planning Awards

Overseers Board Chair Promotes Baldrige Program before House Committee

July 17, 2014

Dr. Rulon Stacey, chair of the Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, spoke of the value of the Baldrige approach to performance...

NIST Webinar to Cover Validation of Forensic DNA Testing Technologies

July 16, 2014

Forensic DNA analysts and other interested stakeholders are invited to participate in a free NIST webinar on validation concepts and resources on Aug. 6, 2014...

Face in Video Evaluation (FIVE)

The Face in Video Evaluation (FIVE) is being conducted to assess the capability of face recognition algorithms to correctly identify or ignore persons appearing

red circle with header Forensic Science Standards Board. Inside, three smaller red circles labeled Legal Resource Committee, Human Factors Committee and Quality Infrastructure Committee

NIST Names Members of Forensic Science Resource Committees

July 16, 2014

An initiative to strengthen and bring uniformity to forensic science standards took another step forward today as the National Institute of Standards and...

Learn Using the Latest Baldrige Education Case Study

July 16, 2014

The Baldrige Program is often asked for examples of how organizations use the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to improve—whether the organization...

Digital Crime-Fighters Face Technical Challenges with Cloud Computing

July 14, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public review and comment a draft report summarizing 65 challenges that cloud computing...

Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security - 2014

Tue, Sep 23 - Wed, Sep 24 2014

NIST and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are pleased to co-host the 7th

NIST Advisory Group Releases Report on Cryptography Expertise and Standards Process

July 14, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s primary external advisory board today released a report calling for the agency to increase its staff...

Pattern/Impression Scientific Area Committee

The Pattern/Impression Scientific Area Committee (SAC) provides strategic direction, serves as a platform to integrate similar standards...

NIST DNA Analyst Webinar Series: Validation Concepts and Resources – Part 1

Wed, Aug 6 2014

NIST will host a series of free webinars focused on topics of interest to DNA analysts. This four-hour webinar will be

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