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Lin Lingnan is Selected into the 2022-2023 Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering (ECLIPSE)

Dr. Lingnan Lin is selected into the 2022-2023 Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering (ECLIPSE) and will serve as the ECLIPSE Intern in the Technical & Engineering Communities (TEC) Sector of the American Society of Mechanical...

Marc Levitan Receives Top 25 Newsmakers of 2021 - Award of Excellence

For his successful efforts getting the first-ever requirements for tornado-resistant design adopted in the 2022 version of ASCE 7

Shawn Moylan Receives ASME Outstanding Service Award

Award honors dedicated service by outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged and committed service, devotion, enthusiasm and faithfulness

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NIST Study Shows Everyday Plastic Products Release Trillions of Microscopic Particles Into Water

April 20, 2022

Researchers analyzed widely used consumer products to better understand these microscopic plastics.

About SCSD

The Smart Connected Systems Division (SCSD) in NIST’s Communication Technology Laboratory (CTL) started internal operations in October 2021...

OWM Welcomes New Associate, Jan Konijnenburg

Jan received his master’s degree in electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology, in Delft, Netherlands in 1996. In 2004...

Haiying Guan

Title of Talk: Open Media Forensic Challenge (OpenMFC) Evaluation Program ABSTRACT: The rapid advance of artificial intelligence (AI) has...

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NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms

July 5, 2022

Federal agency reveals the first group of winners from its six-year competition.

RADWAG WTC 600 Precision Balance

Please see manual.

OWM Technical Analysis

The OWM Technical Analysis and associated Executive Summary is a set of documents prepared by the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM)...

OWM Federal Staff

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OSAC Standards Bulletin - April 2022

This Standards Bulletin from the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science provides a monthly update on: Standards moving through...

75th Anniversary of Mathematics and Statistics at NIST

Tue, Jun 28 - Thu, Jun 30 2022

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the establishment of the first mathematical and statistical organizations

Quantitative, Traceable Determination of Cell Viability Using Absorbance Microscopy

Most cell-based protocols require knowledge of the number of live and dead cell populations. The current methods, however, lack traceability, which is

First Complete Human Genome Poised to Strengthen Genetic Analysis, NIST Study Shows

March 31, 2022

Alongside the newly updated human genome, which fills in long-standing gaps to fully spell out the more than 3 billion letters that compose our genetic code, a...

NIST Associates for OWM

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OWM Welcomes Pathways Intern, Cyra Golwalla

Cyra is a student at Mount St. Mary’s University, graduating with her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management. She is very aware...

OWM Welcomes Montgomery College Interns

Byline: Elizabeth Benham Help the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) welcome Dinelka Jagoda and Tanna Nguyen, two spring Professional...

Virtual Reality

Speakers Simon Su Title of Talk: VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATIONS TO SUPPORT DATA ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF SCIENCE AND...

Quantum Science

Speakers Victor V. Albert Title of Talk: NIST QUANTUM EFFORTS AT UMD COLLEGE PARK Topic Areas: quantum science Read More Thomas Gerrits...

Intersection of Technology and Policy

Speakers Cherilyn Pascoe Title of Talk: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY POLICY: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY Topic Areas...

Information Retrieval

Speakers George Awad Title of Talk: TRECVID - EVALUATING COMPUTER VISION TASKS USING REAL-WORLD DATASETS Topic Areas: Computer Vision, Video...

Human Factors, Usability

Speakers Shanée Dawkins Title of Talk: THE NIST USABILITY GROUP: CHAMPIONING THE HUMAN IN IT Topic Areas: Usability, human centered design...

Digital Forensics

Speakers Haiying Guan Title of Talk: OPEN MEDIA FORENSIC CHALLENGE (OpenMFC) EVALUATION PROGRAM Topic Areas: Open Media Forensic Challenge...

Cybersecurity and Privacy

Speakers Julie Haney Title of Talk: HUMAN-CENTERED CYBERSECURITY Topic Areas: cybersecurity, privacy, usability, smart homes, internet of...

Computational Science, Applied Mathematics

Speakers Jeffrey Fong Title of Talk: WHY ENGINEERS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO SOLVE EQUATIONS "EXACTLY" USING A COMPUTER Topic Areas: Algebraic...

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

Speakers Peter Bajcsy Title of Talk: MEASUREMENTS OF CLASS ENCODINGS IN NEURAL NETWORKS Topic Areas: neural networks, artificial...

Engagement with Universities and Colleges

Innovation is paramount at ITL and can only be achieved through the diversification of ideas. This outreach is intended to expand our...

NanoFab Tool: Reactive Ion Etcher 790 Nitride Left

This PlasmaTherm 790 reactive ion etcher (RIE) is a parallel plate plasma etching system which uses fluorocarbon and oxygen gases to etch silicon nitride thin

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OWM Launches New Metrology Training Needs Survey

March 25, 2022

The Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is a relatively small office at NIST, but has a big footprint in the weights and measures community. With just over 20...

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