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ACMD Seminar: Semantic Preserving Translations between NIST's Digital Library of Mathematical Functions and Computer Algebra Systems

André Greiner-Petter University of Wuppertal, Germany and National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 10:00 AM...

Make It Better: A Blueprint for Manufacturing in Northeast Ohio report from OHIO MEP MAGNET

MAGNET Releases Blueprint to Boost Manufacturing in Northeast Ohio

June 15, 2021

Ethan Karp, Center Director at Manufacturing and Advocacy and Growth Network (MAGNET, part of Ohio MEP), has announced MAGNET’s new report, Make It Better: A...

Critical Software - Definition & Explanatory Material

This section provides the definition of EO-critical software. Following that is a table with a preliminary list of software categories...

Critical Software Definition - FAQs

The following FAQs were compiled in consultation with OMB and CISA to provide additional context to the material. When will the next phase...

Critical Software Definition - Background & Approach

Background Recent incidents have demonstrated the need for the Federal Government to improve its efforts to identify, deter, protect against...

Critical Software Definition - Introduction

October 13, 2021 Note: NIST is updating its characterization of critical software to reflect conversations with the National Security...

Critical Software Definition

Critical Software: Enhancing the Security of the Software Supply Chain One of NIST’s assignments to enhance the security of the software...

Wai Cheong Tam Receives Alice Hamilton Award for Occupational Safety and Health

The research work "Estimation of the critical external heat leading to the failure of lithium-ion batteries" by Wei Tang (NIOSH), Wai Cheong Tam (NIST), Liming Yuan (NIOSH), Thomas Dubaniewicz (NIOSH), Richard Thomas (NIOSH), and John Soles (NIOSH)...

A Group within the Intelligent Systems Division are 2021 FINALIST

Adam Jacoff, Ann Virts, Kamel Saidi, Elena Messina, Kenny Kimble, Dave Schmitt, Tony Downs, and Brian Weiss are recognized as 2021 FINALIST for the 2021 Service to America Medal in the category of Safety, Security, and International Affairs for...

Aspasia Nikolaou Receives Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year for 2020 – 2021

In recognition of her character, professional integrity, and years of outstanding service to the civil engineering profession.

Boonserm Kulvatunyou Receives OAGi Outstanding Contributor Recognition

For outstanding leadership and innovation, leading to novel tool development and deployment that advances enterprise standardization for reduced cost of integration in the digital economy.

William Bernstein Receives a Certificate of Appreciation

William Bernstein receives a Certificate of Appreciation for his work on two ASMT standards.

KC Morris receives an Award of Special Service

KC Morris receives an Award of Special Service for her work on Committee E60 on Sustainability.

Yan Lu Receives ASME Certificate of Appreciation

Yan Lu is recognized for her work organizing the 2020 IDETC-CIE Student Hackathon.

Moneer Helu is Recognized for Leadership in Smart Manufacturing Standards

Recognized for leadership in smart manufacturing standards and technology development.

Moneer Helu is Recognized as an Outstanding, Early-Career Engineer

Recognized as an outstanding, early-career engineer invited to an intensive symposium to facilitate interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge that could lead to collaborative networks of engineers from the two countries.

Shaw C. Feng is Recognized with the Eli Whitney Productivity Award

Shaw C. Feng is recognized with the Eli Whitney Productivity Award for his outstanding contributions to using efficiently linked data to enable digital metrology, sustainable manufacturing and systems integration for manufacturing industries thereby...

Kevin Jurrens Receives ASTM Award of Merit, with accompanying title of ASTM Fellow

For extraordinary productivity, outstanding contribution, and unwavering leadership in developing standards related to Additive Manufacturing, and for significant contributions to the relevance of ASTM International Committee F42 on Additive...

Michael Brundage Serves as the 2019-2020 ASME ECLIPSE Internship

ASME's Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering (ECLIPSE) is a competitive leadership development program that believes early career engineers can make significant contributions to the society.

Paul Witherell Receives Outstanding Alumni Award 2020

Dr. Witherell's research efforts aim to leverage engineering and information sciences to benefit design flexibility, cost, and cycle times in additive manufacturing. His specific job focus is on identifying integration and technology issues that...

The words "Bias in A I" appear in black and white

NIST Proposes Approach for Reducing Risk of Bias in Artificial Intelligence

June 22, 2021

In an effort to counter the often pernicious effect of biases in artificial intelligence (AI) that can damage people’s lives and public trust in AI, the...

Work with SID

Research in SID Find out more about the type of research that we're doing in SID. Collaboration opportunities SID offers many research...

Proposal for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence (SP 1270)

This document has been superseded by a final version, NIST Special Publication 1270.

Escape From Flatland: Calibration Method Enables Microscopes to Make Accurate Measurements in All 3 Dimensions

June 24, 2021

Conventional microscopes provide essential information about samples in two dimensions — the plane of the microscope slide. But flat is not all that. In many...

Major New Building Standard Can Map Out Tornado Threat for the First Time

June 21, 2021

Of the natural hazards in Mother Nature’s arsenal, tornadoes are some of the most vicious. But while other hazards are regularly considered in building designs...

NICE eNewsletter Summer 2021

Subscribe to the NICE eNewsletter welcome Welcome to the summer 2021 issue of the NICE eNewsletter. I am thrilled to be introducing this...

New Standard for Vaccine Fridges Unveiled

June 17, 2021

You know that part of your fridge that always freezes your lettuce? Or the section in your freezer door that leaves your popsicles a little mushy? Different...

NIST Food Nutrition and Safety Quality Assurance Program Launches New Exercise

January 21, 2022

The second exercise of the NIST Food Nutrition and Safety Quality Assurance Program (FNSQAP) is underway. FNSQAP helps food laboratories demonstrate measurement...

A phase diagram from SRD 31 including Lithium, Thorium, and Uranium

NIST Updates Database Used for Designing Advanced Materials

No one can say with absolute certainty what will happen in the future. But scientists can predict the future state of advanced materials very precisely using...

ITL Chief of Staff Elham Tabassi to serve on newly formed National AI Research Resource Task Force

June 16, 2021

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation announced the formation of the National Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

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