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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SlapsegII has been superseded by SlapsegIII SlapSegII - Validation of 2 inch Validation_2inch_W1600_H950.zip The 2 inch slap...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SlapsegII has been superseded by SlapsegIII August 4, 2008: What hardware and OS is being used for the test?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...

Quality Is Virtual! Baldrige Program Offers Quest for Excellence Online

March 16, 2010

Don't worry if you can't make it to Washington, D.C., for the Quest for Excellence XXII conference on April 12-14, 2010. You can participate from your home or...

Baldrige Program Funds Four State Efforts to Teach Performance Excellence

March 16, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Baldrige National Quality Program (BNQP) has announced that four state quality programs will receive...

March Workshop at NIST to Focus on Preserving Our Digital Data

March 16, 2010

Experts on digital preservation are gathering at a workshop at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., from March 29 to...

NIST, Partners Develop Testing Infrastructure for Health IT Systems

March 16, 2010

Fully incorporating modern information technology into the healthcare system promises many benefits, including better quality care, less paperwork and fewer...

Layered Graphene Sheets Could Solve Hydrogen Storage Issues

March 16, 2010

Graphene—carbon formed into sheets a single atom thick—now appears to be a promising base material for capturing hydrogen, according to recent research at the...

Nanoparticle Assembly in Complex Fluids

Develop measurement methods that quantify the interdependent stability, transport, and redox properties of nanomaterials in biophysical multicomponent complex

CIFter

The CIFter Project was created by a project team of the Visualization and Usability Group* at The National Institute of Standards and...

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation 2004 (slapseg04)

The Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation 2004 (SlapSeg04) is an assessment of the accuracy of algorithms used to segment slap...

Video Surveillance Technologies for Retail Security (VISITORS)

The U.S. Retail Industry experiences over $32B in losses per year (2008 statistics) due to retail theft and frauds. Organized crime accounts...

XML Technologies

For more information regarding this project, please visit: http://xw2k.nist.gov/xml/ The World Wide Web has grown to become the world's digital library, making

Results with Baldrige in Service

(links are to organization profiles) PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector Practice Among consulting firms serving the federal...

Role-Based Training for IT Security Is the Topic of March Educators' Conference

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA) are co-hosting FISSEA's...

Comments Requested on Draft Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting public comment on draft guidelines for network engineers and administrators for the...

NIST Releases Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems

March 2, 2010

The final publication of the Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life Cycle Approach (NIST Special...

First Test Labs for Next-Generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) Are Accredited

March 2, 2010

The first two laboratories have recently completed accreditation to provide testing services for the USGv6 Program. The USGv6 Program, developed at the National...

NIST, NASA Launch Joint Effort to Develop New Climate Satellites

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a joint effort to gather...

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