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PFTII Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ

April, 2010 What's new in PFT II? PFT II will evaluate fingerprints matching from the different impression types: plain vs. plain, plain vs...

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluation (PFTII)

PFT II has been superseded by PFT III. Visit the PFT III page for more information. Use this link to see PFT results from 2003 – February...

Three New Members Join NIST Advisory Group

March 30, 2010

Patrick Gallagher, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has named three distinguished experts from industry and academia to

NIST Advisory Committee Issues 2009 Annual Report

March 30, 2010

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

NIST Director Gallagher to Co-Chair White House Standards Committee

March 30, 2010

Whether it is to promote the development of a nationwide "Smart Grid" for electricity, optimize cyber security in federal information technology systems, or

National Software Reference Library

For more information, visit the NSRL website at: www.nsrl.nist.gov This project is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice

Health Information Security Conference to Run May 11-12 in D.C.

March 30, 2010

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

Smoke Alarms + Sprinklers + Closed Doors = Lives Saved in Dorm Fires

March 30, 2010

Experimenting on a university dormitory that was scheduled to be torn down, fire researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have

This atomic-force microscopy image shows wrinkling in a single-wall carbon nanotube membrane; the inset shows an optical reflection micrograph of the membrane without any strain.

NIST Scientists Address 'Wrinkles' in Transparent Film Development

March 30, 2010

A closer look at a promising nanotube coating that might one day improve solar cells has turned up a few unexpected wrinkles, according to new research

Diagram of an airbrush technique to create spray-on transistors

Paintable Electronics? NIST Studies Spray-On Manufacturing of Transistors

March 30, 2010

A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate

A quantum-mechanics-based simulation demonstrates how a new NIST instrument can delicately pull a chain of atoms apart.

NIST Researchers Holding Steady in an Atomic-Scale Tug-of-War

March 30, 2010

How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of--let's say--gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms?* It's a measure of the astonishing

NIST Receives Highest Honor from Automotive Industry Action Group

October 20, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been awarded the 2009 Automotive Industry Action Group's (AIAG) Chairman's Award, the organization

November Workshop to Examine Challenges to Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing

October 6, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is holding the "National Workshop on Challenges to Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing: Industry

PFT 2003 Testing Status

Organization Name SDK code Application Date Software Accepted Testing Completed SONATEQ X 12/15/2005 7/24/2006 09/12/2006 Motorola 1F 5/11...

New Study: Home Energy Savings Are Made in the Shade

May 5, 2009

Trees positioned to shade the west and south sides of a house may decrease summertime electric bills by 5 percent on average, according to a recent study of

Workshop to Aim for Security, Accessibility in Future Voting Systems

June 30, 2009

Creating voting machines that are both trustworthy and easy to use is the goal of the End-to-End Voting Systems Workshop, which should interest anyone concerned

NIST Delivers Updated Draft Standards for Electronic Voting Machines

June 2, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal

Quantum Computers Will Require Complex Software to Manage Errors

April 7, 2009

Highlighting another challenge to the development of quantum computers, theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown that a

Scientists Give a Hand(edness) to the Search for Alien Life

April 21, 2009

Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is right, we may be

JQI Researchers Create 'Synthetic Magnetic Fields' for Neutral Atoms

December 15, 2009

Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of

Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'10) Workshop

Tue, Sep 28 - Thu, Sep 30 2010

The 2010 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems workshop will be the tenth in a series dedicated to defining

NIST Proprietary Fingerprint Template (PFT) Evaluation 2003 -2010

The NIST PFT (2003 - February 2010) evaluation is no longer accepting SDKs for evaluation it has been replaced with PFTII evaluation....

Results with Baldrige in Manufacturing

Here's how some manufacturers benefit from using the Baldrige framework. (links are to organization profiles) Lockheed Martin Missiles...

TRECVid Multimedia Event Detection Evaluation Track

MED13 will be the fourth evaluation following the 2010 MED Pilot, 2011 MED, 2012 MED, and 2013 MED evaluations. MED 14 will implement...

SlapSegII Validation

SlapsegII has been superseded by SlapsegIII SlapSegII - Validation of 2 inch Validation_2inch_W1600_H950.zip The 2 inch slap...

EEEL Sponsors INTEL VP's Visit to NIST

March 23, 2010

Dr. Michael C. Mayberry, Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group and Director of Components Research at INTEL Corporation, visited NIST in

SlapsegII FAQ's

SlapsegII has been superseded by SlapsegIII August 4, 2008: What hardware and OS is being used for the test? Hardware: Dell...

New Chair, Vice Chair Elected to NIST Policy Advisory Group

March 16, 2010

A new chair and vice chair have been elected to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the

NCNR Researchers Win Prizes in Neutron Scattering

March 16, 2010

The Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) has honored scientists working at NIST with two of its three major annual prizes for 2010, and named another a

NIST Engineer Serving on Chilean Quake Research Team

March 16, 2010

Jeffrey Dragovich, a research structural engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been deployed to Chile as a member of a

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