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NIST Seeks Proposals for $20 Million Program to Create Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowships

June 16, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is establishing a financial assistance program to help selected institutions...

Shadow Technique Improves Measurement of Micro Holes

June 2, 2005

Sometimes seeing a shadow can be as good or better than seeing the real thing. A new measurement method developed by researchers working at the National...

Flemming Awards Received by Four NIST Researchers

June 16, 2005

On June 6, four NIST researchers were among 12 honorees who received the Arthur S. Flemming Award at a ceremony held at The George Washington University in...

New NIST Method Improves Accuracy of Spectrometers

June 16, 2005

Measurements of the intensity of light at different wavelengths can be made more accurately now, thanks to a new, simple method for correcting common instrument...

Software Advance Helps Computers Act Logically

June 16, 2005

Computers just respond to commands, never "thinking" about the consequences. A new software language, however, promises to enable computers to reason much more...

New Gene Chip May Be Early Cancer Diagnosis Tool

June 16, 2005

A pilot study at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in support of the National Cancer Institute's Early Detection Research Network (EDRN...

NIST Scientist Honored for Neutron Probe Advances

June 30, 2005

Through pioneering contributions that have expanded the capabilities of a class of specialized instruments that use neutrons to probe materials, Charles...

Submissions Requested for Crypto Hash Workshop

June 30, 2005

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting papers, presentations and other submissions for a workshop on Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2005, in...

Reference Materials Planned for Semiconductor Industry

June 30, 2005

Companies and research organizations are invited to collaborate with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and SEMATECH in the development...

NIST Outlines Support for Health IT Initiative

June 30, 2005

President Bush has set a goal of widespread adoption of electronic health records within 10 years so that health information will follow patients throughout...

1st Invitational Workshop: Body Area Network Technology and Applications

Sun, Jun 19 - Mon, Jun 20 2011

In the past decade, wireless sensor networks have emerged as one of the industries showing great potential to stimulate

Recombinant Proteins in Milk A Bioreactor That Eats Hay

Fri, Mar 25 2011

Anyone outside NIST wishing to attend must be sponsored by a NIST employee and receive a visitor badge. For more

NIST to Accredit Voting Systems Test Labs

June 30, 2005

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a program for accrediting laboratories that will test voting systems and components in...

New Web Service Tracks Foreign Tech Regulations

June 30, 2005

Want to know about pending changes in technical regulations in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Korea or any of the 148 nations that are members of the World Trade...

Final Nightclub Fire Report Urges Code Compliance

June 30, 2005

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fire investigators have urged all state and local governments to adopt and aggressively enforce national...

Predicting the Lifetime of Extreme UV Optics

July 13, 2005

Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) may be the next-generation patterning technique used to produce smaller and faster microchips with feature sizes of 32...

NIST Finds Rough Spot in Surface Measurement

July 13, 2005

For makers of computers, disk drives and other sophisticated technologies, a guiding principle is the smoother the surfaces of chips and other components, the...

Usability Standard Achieves International Status

July 26, 2005

Software that is poorly designed, inappropriate for specific tasks or just difficult to use can be frustrating, unproductive and costly for both businesses and...

High-Tech Concrete Technology Has a Famous Past

March 15, 2011

In the business of concrete making, what's old—even ancient—is new again. Almost 1,900 years ago, the Romans built what continues to be the world's largest...

Roof of a building with a testing device on it

New NIST Testing Device May Help to 'Seal the Deal' for Building Owners

March 15, 2011

Just as a chain is as strong as its weakest link, a building is as secure against the environment as its most degraded joint sealants, about 50 percent of which...

New Tool Debuts for Measuring Indoor Air Pollutants

March 15, 2011

A promising new approach for checking the accuracy of measurements of hazardous indoor air pollutants may soon be ready for prime time, report researchers from...

NIST researcher photographing the remains of the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., on June 19, 2007, the day after the fire that killed nine firefighters.

NIST Releases Final Report on Charleston Sofa Store Fire

March 15, 2011

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its final report on its study of the June 18, 2007, fire at the Sofa Super Store in...

Two New SCAP Documents Help Improve Automating Computer Security Management

March 15, 2011

It's increasingly difficult to keep up with all the vulnerabilities present in today's highly complex operating systems and applications. Attackers constantly...

NIST Advisory Committee Issues 2010 Annual Report

March 15, 2011

The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency's primary private-sector advisory...

Conference on Safeguarding Health Information Security, May 10-11

March 15, 2011

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is co-hosting a conference to explore the current health information technology security landscape and...

NIST Holds Third Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop, April 7-8

March 15, 2011

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop III on April 7-8, 2011, at its Gaithersburg, Md...

NIST to Cosponsor Conference in France on Nanoelectronics Metrology

March 15, 2011

Registration is now open for the eighth international Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics conference, cosponsored by the National...

Dodson Receives 'Federal 100' Award for Cybersecurity Work

March 15, 2011

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Donna Dodson has received the 2011 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer Week, the award...

Ontology Summit 2011: Making the Case for Ontology

Mon, Apr 18 - Tue, Apr 19 2011

While the field of ontology, in the information science sense, has blossomed since the late 1980s, the use of ontology

Smart Grid Communications

While there is a clear need for communication networks supporting reliable information transfer between the various entities in the electric grid, there are

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