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Gaithersburg

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

Workshop on Long-term Preservation and Management of Electronic Health Records

Tue, Apr 5 - Wed, Apr 6 2011

The expected outcomes of the workshop include: Understand the current landscape on EHRs Survey current practices and

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard 2011 Workshop

held at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD on March 1-3, 2011 The second workshop was convened on March 1 at NIST. Over 100 persons participated in...

Documentary Standards: ANSI/IEEE N42.42 Standard

The purpose of the N42 data format is to facilitate manufacturer-independent transfer of information from radiation measurement instruments for use in homeland

CNST Researchers Use Spin Waves to Measure Magnetic Polarization of Electrical Current

March 7, 2011

In the hard drive industry, the rapid growth of storage density has been propelled in part by developments in the sensors used to read the magnetic "bits" on...

Key Asia-Pacific Officials, Experts Discuss Critical Importance of Standards Education

March 4, 2011

Washington, D.C.—In just a few months, millions of young adults will graduate from college and step into productive careers in the global economy. Meanwhile...

Technical Data Package Standards Development Summit

Tue, Apr 19 - Thu, Apr 21 2011

Provide updates on recent developments in supply chain integration, develop requirements for technical data package

Is Your Organization Strategic When Considering Supplier Relationships?

February 2011 The roles of suppliers and supply-chain decisions have received increased attention in the 2011–2012 Criteria for Performance...

Security Automation Developer Days – Spring 2011

Tue, Mar 22 - Fri, Mar 25 2011

The Security Automation Developer Days Conference consists of a series of interactive discussions focusing on advancing

'A Little Off the Top' Helps NIST Map Cells with Submicrometer Resolution

March 1, 2011

To determine if a tissue biopsy reveals the presence of cancer, a histologist often screens for cells with an abnormal appearance or a specific visible trait...

Using Artificial, Cell-Like 'Honey Pots' To Entrap Deadly Viruses

March 1, 2011

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Weill Cornell Medical College have designed artificial "protocells" that can...

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