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Gaithersburg

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies: Extended Feature Sets ELFT-EFS

July 2012: Slides were presented at the IAI 97th International Conference, Phoenix, Arizona. The material in this presentation covers...

Latent Testing Workshop 2006

The Latent Testing Workshop 2006 was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland on April 5th & 6th...

July Workshop Devoted to Improving Usability of Health Care IT

May 25, 2010

Improving the ease of use of information systems for the health care industry could significantly facilitate the adoption of technology that has great potential...

Schematic of a spherical magnetite nanoparticle

NIST Scientists Gain New 'Core' Understanding of Nanoparticles

May 25, 2010

While attempting to solve one mystery about iron oxide-based nanoparticles, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT) consist of evaluations of the accuracy of latent matching using features marked by experienced human

Experimental hydrogel scaffolds prepared at NIST for culturing bone cells clearly show the dependence of bone mineralization on the stiffness of the gel.

Scaffold Gradients: Finding the Right Environment for Developing Cells

May 25, 2010

People often have strong opinions on the "right" firmness of mattresses for themselves, and, as it turns out, some cell types have similar preferences for their...

Interlaboratory Comparison Exercises for Organic Contaminants and Trace Elements in Marine Sediments and Tissues

Three separate interlaboratory comparison exercises for environmental contaminants in marine specimens were administered in 2007/2008 by the Chemical Sciences

Ongoing MINEX Evaluation Results

Ongoing MINEX has been superseded by MINEX III False Non-Match Rates at a fixed False Match Rate of 0.01 The entries in the tables are false...

2010 Maryland Stem Cell Research Symposium

Wed, Sep 22 2010

Maryland TEDCO and Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund has partnered with NIST, NIH, Johns Hopkins University, and the

INCITS Standardized Biometric Data

Examples of INCITS data format interchange standard records This page documents NIST's release of samples conforming to the INCITS 378-2004...

Ongoing MINEX FAQs

Ongoing MINEX has been superseded by MINEX III My company wants to submit a product for MINEX compliance testing, how do we initiate the...

Ongoing MINEX Status

Ongoing MINEX has been superseded by MINEX III Organization Name SDK code Application Date Software Accepted Testing Completed Cogent...

Ongoing MINEX Compliant List

Ongoing MINEX has been superseded by MINEX III MINEX Compliant Feature Extractors Organization Name SDK Code** Extractor CBEFF PID (hex)...

NIGOS - NIST Biometric Open Source Server

BiomAPP - Match-on-Card and PIV Application Software Homepage and nightly current source code snapshot, generated nightly. BiomDI - ISO/SC37...

45th CMIL Meeting

May 14, 2010

We are pleased to inform you that the web site for the 45th CIML Meeting to be held from 21 through 24 September 2010 in Orlando (FL, USA) is now open: http:/...

Efficient Optical Spectroscopy of Single Solid-State Quantum Emitters

Devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers are typically based upon the accumulated emission from a large number of gas phase atoms, ions in solids

MINEX II Validation

MINEX II - Validation of Template Generators Purpose The MINEX II evaluation plan requires all submitted template generators to convert a...

MINEX II - An Assessment of Match-on-Card technology

MINEX II is the part of the MINEX program dedicated to the evaluation and development of the capabilities of fingerprint minutia matchers...

Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) Overview

The approval of the INCITS 378 fingerprint template standard creates the possibility of a fully interoperable multivendor marketplace for applications involving

MINEX04 Homepage

The purpose of MINEX04 was to determine the feasibility of using minutiae data (rather than image data) as the interchange medium for...

Comments Sought on Updated Guide for Assessing Federal IT Security Controls

May 11, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the final draft of Special Publication 800-53A, Revision 1, Guide for Assessing Security...

$Graph showing part of the complex number phase of the gamma function and a related function.$

Gaithersburg

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies: Extended Feature Sets ELFT-EFS

Latent Testing Workshop 2006

July Workshop Devoted to Improving Usability of Health Care IT

NIST Scientists Gain New 'Core' Understanding of Nanoparticles

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

Scaffold Gradients: Finding the Right Environment for Developing Cells

Interlaboratory Comparison Exercises for Organic Contaminants and Trace Elements in Marine Sediments and Tissues

Ongoing MINEX Evaluation Results

2010 Maryland Stem Cell Research Symposium

INCITS Standardized Biometric Data

Ongoing MINEX FAQs

Ongoing MINEX Status

Ongoing MINEX Compliant List

NIGOS - NIST Biometric Open Source Server

45th CMIL Meeting

Efficient Optical Spectroscopy of Single Solid-State Quantum Emitters

MINEX II Validation

MINEX II - An Assessment of Match-on-Card technology

Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) Overview

MINEX04 Homepage

Comments Sought on Updated Guide for Assessing Federal IT Security Controls

NIST Releases Successor to Venerable Handbook of Math Functions

Final NIST Rhode Island Nightclub Fire Report Urges Strict Adherence to and Strengthening of Current Model Safety Codes

Commerce's NIST Launches Investigation into Rhode Island Nightclub Fire

Commerce's NIST Names National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee

First Meeting of National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee to Be Held April 29

NIST Names Two Additional Experts to National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee

2010 BEYA/Minorities in Research Science Emerald Honors - Yadu Tewari

Special Database 32 - Multiple Encounter Dataset (MEDS)

Biometric Special Databases and Software