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NIST is working with the Internet industry to design, standardize and foster deployment of technologies to improve the security and robustness of enterprise
Our High Performance Computing (HPC) program enables work on challenging problems that are beyond the capacity and capability of desktop computing resources
Many polymeric fluids, including biotherapeutics and fuels, can have unusual physical behavior in solutions, and many applications require detailed knowledge of
It is desirable to ensure an interoperable and standards-based technical strategic direction for USG identity credentials, in particular for their interfaces
Identity management is a relatively new discipline with many unanswered questions. Much research is needed to advance the state of the art to the point where
One of the major outcomes of this effort will be clear, robust, tested, sufficient and implementable Biometric Data Exchange Format, Biometric Sample Quality
Progressive increases in the number of cell therapies in the preclinical and clinical phases has prompted the need for reliable and non-invasive assays to
Image analytics play a fundamental role in many fields of science, due to the widespread availability of high-resolution image data. However, image texture is a
The fundamental measures (IMS) project is producing vast amounts of data. This project will visualize the three classes of computer models of networks - micro
Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI), or Artificial Intelligence applied to industry applications, is defined by its requirement to fulfill an explicit need
Information access is the dominant use case in today's Internet with more than 90% of Internet traffic being content distribution, mainly due to video streaming
The IIEDM project seeks to aid the growth of the electronics and semiconductor industries by technical support in two key efforts. First, the project provides
With the rise of artificial intelligence and its insatiable demand for low-energy, high performance computing, research is accelerating into novel nanodevices
New materials are essential for future energy independence, environmental sustainability, and next-generation manufacturing. The Materials Genome Initiative
Some of the Multimodal Information Group's project areas span across multiple research areas within the group or to other groups in IAD. These interdisciplinary
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted and managed the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) projects. The ICE 2005 was a technology
A forum for the discussion of technical questions of interest to USG agencies and their staff that are employing or may employ iris recognition to carry out
Forensic science provides one of the basic structural elements of the U.S. criminal justice system. It provides the methodologies for understanding crime scenes