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NIST Reference Materials Are 'Gold Standard' for Bio-Nanotech Research

January 8, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research...

Bio-Imaging Technology Transfer and Commercialization Showcase

August 25, 2009

On Oct. 6, 2009, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) will sponsor a technology transfer and commercialization showcase for bio-imaging...

Biometrics Conference Meets Sept. 22–24 in Florida

August 25, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are cosponsoring the Biometric Consortium Conference 2009 on...

Seventeen Years of Baldrige Scoring Data Now Available

September 8, 2009

The Baldrige National Quality Program recently published "blinded" (anonymous) scoring data on 1,033 applicants for the Baldrige National Quality Award during...

New NIST Publications Describe Standards for Identity Credentials and Authentication Systems

September 8, 2009

Two publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describe new capabilities for authentication systems using smart cards or other...

NIST to Receive 2008 Federal Library of the Year Award

September 22, 2009

The Library of Congress Federal Library & Information Center Committee (FLICC) has announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Workshop Aims to Establish Standards for Voting Machine Data

September 22, 2009

To facilitate audits of election results and making the election process more transparent, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a...

Gallagher Nominated to be 14th NIST Director

September 22, 2009

On Sept. 10, the White House announced President Barack Obama's intention to nominate physicist Patrick Gallagher to be the 14th director of the National...

Scripps Director Joins NIST Advisory Group

October 6, 2009

Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has been chosen to serve on the primary policy advisory...

Overall view of the collapsed Dallas Cowboys practice facility after the fabric covering was removed.

NIST Releases Draft Report on Cowboys Facility Collapse

October 6, 2009

A fabric-covered, steel frame practice facility owned by the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys collapsed under wind loads significantly less than those...

Practice Guide Describes Engineering Standards

August 26, 2005

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the ASM International Surface Engineering Committee, has issued a guide to...

Industrial Physics Forum: Innovation Infrastructure

August 26, 2005

Industry executives, research managers, academics and science policy decision makers are invited to attend The Industrial Physics Forum on Nov. 6-8, 2005, at...

Conference to Highlight New Biometric Technologies

August 26, 2005

The Biometrics Consortium Conference 2005 will address the latest trends in research, development, testing and application of biometric technologies, especially...

New Smart Grid Documents Include Call for Governing Board Nominations

October 20, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has posted three documents related to the Smart Grid, the next-generation electricity network for U.S...

NIST Signs U.S.-China Cooperative Agreement on Earthquake and Volcano Sciences

October 20, 2009

In the aftermath of the Sichuan Earthquake that occurred in China this past year and its high number of casualties, which included many children, the United...

FERC Conference to Advance Smart Grid Interoperability Standards

December 27, 2010

On December 21, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced it will hold a technical conference* on Smart Grid Interoperability Standards...

Evaluation Gauges Results from Machine Translation

August 26, 2005

The National Institute of Stanards and Technology has posted the results of the NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation (MT-05), part of an ongoing series...

IT Program Hopes to Foster Better Security Checklists

August 26, 2005

Widespread electronic attacks on computer systems have become commonplace with threats ranging from remotely launched attacks on network services to malicious...

IREX III homepage

April 19, 2012: A special supplement to the IREX III final report is now available. IREX III Supplement I: Failure Analysis April 5, 2012...

Dr. Holbrook received the PECASE Award for establishing himself as an internationally recognized leader in measurements and analysis of environmental fate and impact of nano-scale material and nanoparticles. Applying NIST's advanced measurement...

Consortium Seeks Comment on Gene Expression Roadmap

August 26, 2005

The External RNA Controls Consortium (ERCC) has issued for comment a draft plan for the selection and qualification of candidate RNA sequences, to be used as...

January 13 & 14, 2011 TGDC Meeting

Thu, Jan 13 - Fri, Jan 14 2011

Public meeting of the Technical Guidelines Development Committee. Topics to be discussed: UOCAVA Auditability Usability

NIST Develops 'Toolbox' for Manufacturing Systems

August 26, 2005

Ask any handyman what's the most important thing he needs to get the job done and he'll probably say his toolbox. Thanks to the National Institute of Standards...

OWM Newsletter

NIST OWM provides a quarterly newsletter that provides articles of interest to the weights and measures community and shares news from...

nSoft

Connecting neutron measurements to plastics, chemical, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing

Is Smell a Quantum Phenomenon?

Fri, Jan 7 2011

Our sense of smell is extraordinarily good at molecular recognition: we can identify tens of thousands of odorants

Vice President Biden and Commerce Secretary Locke Present Baldrige Award to Five Organizations

December 17, 2010

On December 16, 2010, Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gary Locke presented five U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige...

Image Group Workshops/Conferences/Talks

2016 IEG-II (Iris Experts Group) - June 28, 2016 IBPC 2016 (International Biometric Performance Testing Conference) - May 3-5, 2016 2015...

National Council on Weights and Measures (NCWM) Related Reports

NCWM Annual Conference Reports Note: Previous editions available upon request SP 979: Reports of the National Conference on Weights and...

NIST Interagency or Internal Reports (NISTIR)

NISTIR 5672: Advanced Mass Calibrations and Measurement Assurance Program for State Calibration Laboratories Editions: 2019 NISTIR 6176...

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