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Results of 1991 - 2000 Baldrige Award Recipients 10-Year Common Stock Comparison

March 7, 2002

Methodology: A hypothetical sum was invested in each of the 1991-2000, publicly-traded Baldrige Award recipient's common stock, in the year they applied for the...

Baldrige Award Winners Beat the S&P 500 for Eighth Year

March 7, 2002

U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans today announced the "Baldrige Index" has once again outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500. The announcement was made at a...

Federal Agencies Double Their Use of Private-Sector Standards

March 4, 2002

A newly released, congressionally mandated report from the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) concludes that federal...

Commerce Secretary Don Evans Releases Recommendations to Improve the Advanced Technology Program (ATP)

February 4, 2002

Commerce Secretary Don Evans announced today the release of The Advanced Technology Program: Reform with a Purpose, a report that presents six recommendations...

NIST Materials Science Pioneer John Cahn To Receive Bower Award from Franklin Institute

January 28, 2002

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that materials scientist John Cahn will receive the 2002...

National Institute of Standards and Technology Gears Up to Celebrate Centennial

February 15, 2001

What do gas pumps, truck scales, blood-cholesterol tests, DNA chips, industrial lasers, satellite antennas, aircraft altimeters and bullet-proof vests have in...

Mark Stiles Recognized as American Physical Society Outstanding Referee

December 7, 2009

NIST Fellow Mark Stiles has been designated a 2010 Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (APS). This lifetime APS award was initiated in 2008 "to...

CNST Adding Major Capabilities for Transmission Electron Microscopy

December 7, 2009

The CNST has recently awarded contracts with FEI Company for two Transmission Electron Microscope systems that will bring significant new capabilities to both...

Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance

The goal of MCSPT evaluation is to facilitate research via a common evaluation task that focuses on one aspect of person tracking...

TRECVid Surveillance Event Detection Evaluation Track

The Surveillance Event Detection (SED) evaluation track is part of the TRECVid Evaluation and is intended to help promote technology...

Rich Transcription Evaluation

NIST has a long history of conducting Automatic Speech Recognition before RT began. This ASR history graph gives a summary of the tests run...

2010 Dal Nogare Award - Lane Sander

"For his contributions to the theory and application of chromatographic science" For more on his research.

NIST Director Kammer to Retire at Year's End

December 15, 2000

Ray Kammer, director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1997, announced today that he will be retiring from the...

Frederick Resident Receives Award for Strengthening NIST Ties with Industry

November 30, 2000

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, has presented its 2000 William P. Slichter...

Breakthroughs in Thin-Film Magnetic Devices Earn NIST Stratton Award for Robert D. McMichael

November 30, 2000

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, has presented its 2000 Samuel Wesley...

CNST Researchers Design Optical Interface to Probe Single Quantum Dots

November 30, 2009

CNST researchers have designed a nanophotonic interface to very efficiently collect light emitted from single semiconductor quantum dots, providing an avenue...

CNST Researchers Win Best Nanolithography Poster Award at International Conference on Micro Nano Engineering

November 30, 2009

CNST researchers were recognized for the best poster presentation on nanolithography on October 1, 2009 at the 35th International Conference on Micro Nano...

Team Baldrige Honored for Fostering Performance Excellence

November 30, 2000

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, has presented the George A. Uriano Award...

Collins Receives Rosa Award for Outstanding Standards Achievements

November 30, 2000

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, has presented its 2000 Edward Bennett Rosa...

NIST Presents Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award to Fuller, Roosen and Langer

November 30, 2000

Edwin R. Fuller, Jr., Andrew R. Roosen, and Stephen A. Langer, have received the 2000 Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award from the National Institute of...

Local Residents Honored with NIST Crittenden Award

November 30, 2000

Seven Maryland employees of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, have been...

40 Local Residents Earn NIST Bronze Medal Awards

November 30, 2000

For contributions ranging from creating a national assistance program on electronic business for smaller manufacturers to helping settle a 15-year international...

NIST Advanced Technology Program Launches 54 New Technology R&D Projects

October 4, 2000

Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today announced the selection of 54 new industrial research projects chosen for cost-shared support under the Commerce...

NIST Demonstrates New Reading Device for the Blind

September 25, 2000

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today unveiled a new Braille reader that may soon bring the benefits of electronic books to the blind. An...

108 Local Residents Earn Commerce Department, NIST Awards

December 22, 2006

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently presented 37 local area staff members of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with Gold and...

NIST to Hold E-Book Conference

September 18, 2000

Interest in electronic books is soaring in the wake of best-selling novelist Stephen King's decision to publish his own e-book via the Internet earlier this...

ATP Introduces Process Improvements to Streamline 2001 Competition for Innovative Industrial R&D

January 2, 2001

A new, streamlined proposal submission and review procedure marks the 2001 Advanced Technology Program (ATP) competition announced today by the National...

Recertification of Neutral Density Standard Reference Materials for Regular Spectral Transmittance

The certification for all SRM neutral density filters expires after two years. We maintain a program to recertify such filters produced by us. Filters returned

Eighteen Local Residents Receive High Honors from Commerce Department

September 14, 2000

Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta has presented 18 local employees of the National Institute of Standards and Technology with Gold and Silver Medal Awards—the...

New National Standards Strategy Can Advance U.S. Technology Interests, NIST Director Tells Congress

September 13, 2000

Pointing to prospective benefits for U.S. industry and consumers, the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology told a congressional...

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