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Webinar - Internal Auditing Best Practices (Cancelled)

Thu, Sep 13 2012

This 2 hour webinar will consider internal auditing techniques and best practices that are used by a metrology

Webinar: Conducting an Effective Management Review (Cancelled)

Thu, Sep 6 2012

This 2 hour webinar will introduce the management review process, an important tool used by laboratories to foster

$Transmission electron diffraction pattern from from a segment of an indium gallium nitride (InGaN) nanowire about 50 nanometers in diameter taken with an SEM using the new NIST technique$

Hacking the SEM: Crystal Phase Detection for Nanoscale Samples

January 24, 2012

Custom modifications of equipment are an honored tradition of the research lab. In a recent paper, two materials scientists at the National Institute of...

NIST to Support Federal Agencies as They Implement Best Practices for Standards Activities

January 24, 2012

Last week, the White House issued a memorandum recognizing the role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in helping agencies implement...

NIST Publishes Draft Implementation Guidance for Continuously Monitoring an Organization's IT System Security

January 24, 2012

Three new draft reports published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are designed to help both public and private organizations...

NIST Issues Cloud Computing Guidelines for Managing Security and Privacy

January 24, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its first set of guidelines for managing security and privacy issues in cloud computing...

International Community Gathers at NIST in March to Discuss Biometric Performance and Testing

January 24, 2012

The International Biometric Performance Conference 2012, to be held March 5-9 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will bring together...

March Workshop to Support Trusted IDs in Cyberspace

January 24, 2012

The National Strategy for a Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) National Program Office will host the 2012 NIST/NSTIC IDtrust Workshop "Technologies and...

Call for Nominations for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation

January 24, 2012

The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking nominations for the 2012 National Medal of Technology and Innovation...

Betting on Las Vegas: Designing Popular Slot Games

Fri, Feb 3 2012

The American public wagers some $800 billion in casinos each year, losing about $60 billion. The industry's #1 revenue

Updated Guidelines to Help Ensure Electrical Devices are Smart Grid Ready

January 24, 2012

Taking a step closer to ensuring that new electrical devices will be ready to plug into the nation's next-generation power grid, the National Institute of...

Cybersecurity for Cyber-Physical Systems

Mon, Apr 23 - Tue, Apr 24 2012

Presentations, Final Agenda & Abstracts now available. (note: The presentations & Abstracts are linked within the Agenda

Administration Announces New Tools to Help Consumers Manage Electricity Use and Shrink Bills

January 18, 2012

SANTA CLARA, CA – Today, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra joined utility and technology executives in Silicon Valley to announce several new online...

CNST Collaboration Produces Ultra-Short Light Pulses Using On-Chip Microresonator

January 18, 2012

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Purdue University have designed and fabricated an on-chip microresonator that converts...

Economic Study Shows Value of Baldrige-Based Performance Excellence

January 18, 2012

The news in 2001 was impressive, but it's even more emphatically evident a decade later: the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) significantly...

Webinar Contract Review

Thu, Aug 16 2012

This 2 hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of contract review that are necessary to meet customer expectations

February Forums Help Manufacturers Get on Track to Build Next Generation Rail

January 12, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will host two forums in February 2012 to help U.S...

Mobile Device Security Technical Exchange Meeting

Tue, Jan 24 2012

The technological advances embodied in today's Smart Phones have introduced significant changes and challenges to the

Atom Probe Tomography (LEAP 4000X Si/HR – Local Electrode Atom Probe)

LEAP 4000X Si/HR Imaging time-of-flight mass spectrometer and field ion microscope. Can deliver 3-D, isotopically- and chemically- resolved images Sub-nanometer

CNST Collaboration Models Ionic Conductivity in Doped Ceria for use as a Fuel Cell Electrolyte

January 11, 2012

Optimizing the conductivity of ceria based oxides, or doped ceria, is crucial to their use as electrolytes in future solid oxide fuel cells. Researchers from...

Photomicrograph showing human lung cells infected with cytomegalovirus.

NIST Standard Available for Better Diagnosis, Treatment of Cytomegalovirus

January 10, 2012

A new clinical Standard Reference Material (SRM) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will help health care professionals more...

Stretching Exercises: Using Digital Images to Understand Bridge Failures

January 10, 2012

With a random-looking spatter of paint specks, a pair of cameras and a whole lot of computer processing, engineer Mark Iadicola of the National Institute of...

NIST Releases Two New SRMs for Monitoring Human Exposure to Environmental Toxins

January 10, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has developed two new...

NIST SBIR Program Soliciting Proposals to Solve Manufacturing and IT Challenges

January 10, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) needs American innovators and entrepreneurs to help solve technological problems and develop NIST...

New DOC Report Examines the Federal Role in U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness

January 10, 2012

On Jan. 6, 2012, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) issued a new report highlighting key policy priorities to sustain and promote American innovation and...

Text Retrieval Conference 2012 Seeks Information Retrieval Experts for Data Digging

January 10, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting the 21st annual Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), the premier experimental effort in the...

Four at NIST Elected AAAS Fellows

January 10, 2012

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society, has elected four researchers at the National...

Where Do New Medicines Come From?

Fri, Jan 20 2012

Ever wondered how new drugs are discovered? Sometimes it's a case of serendipity. Sometimes it involves synchrotron

2011 American Chemical Society Fellow - Willie May

The work they are doing will improve all of our lives as they unleash the power of chemistry to solve global challenges like providing clean water, sufficient food, new energy sources, and cures for disease. But that's not all they're also organizing...

2011 American Physical Society Fellow - Chris Soles

Congratulations to Chris Soles (Energy and Electronics Materials) for being selected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for 2011. He was recognized for "contributions to measuring properties of polymeric materials in thin films, nanoporous...

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