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Information Technology

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Staff from the Department of Homeland Security participate in a hands-on exercise as part of the SED short course on experiment design.

Short Courses

Ongoing
Topics, along with a description, for previously-taught classes are below. New topics are being considered. If you have a suggestion for a course, or would like to request that a course be taught, please contact Julia Sharp (julia.sharp [at] nist.gov (julia[dot]sharp[at]nist[dot]gov)).

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation (Slapseg) Overview

Ongoing
SlapSeg04 was the first and evaluated a slap segmentation algorithm's ability to segment fingerprints that could be matched using high end fingerprint matching technology. SlapsegII started in 2009 and compares the slap segmentation algorithm's output to hand marked ground truth results. This
Image depicting how the Smart and Interconnect Systems work. From Information flow to actionable information to sensing data.

Smart and Connected Systems

Ongoing
Collections of interrelated systems consisting of information technology (IT) devices, sensors, and actuators that can seamlessly interact. By incorporating the functions of sensing, actuation, and control these systems can measure, describe, and analyze data in order to make decisions thereby

Smart Grid Communications

Completed
Currently, the Smart Grid faces challenges in terms of reliability and security in both wired and wireless communication environments. The most important challenge is a lack of communication network infrastructure, which is a key factor in supporting the grid monitoring system. In the absence of any

Smart Grid Interoperability Testbed Facility

Ongoing
Objective - To develop and progress an advanced multi-mode interacting measurement testbed that leverage cross-OU expertise to facilitate implementation, validation, and full characterization of smart grid interoperability standards and smart grid performance, with a particular emphasis on DER

Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE)

Ongoing
The SAMATE project is an inter-agency project between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and NIST, and consists of two parts: Development of metrics for the effectiveness of software security assessment (SSA) tools. assess current SSA methods and tools in order to identify deficiencies which

Software and Data Carpentry

Ongoing
Software and Data Carpentry workshops conduced at NIST are designed to teach basic computing and data skills that enable NIST researchers to get more done in less time, while also making it easier to automate and document research workflows. These skills can allow for more rapid and reliable
Software Defined and Virtual Networks

Software Defined Virtual Networks

Ongoing
Background Data networks have enabled extraordinary growth in capabilities such as email, the web, and social media; and today form the technical basis for our information-centric economy [1]. However, current network architectures and processes for technical evolution cannot support the complexity

Software Performance Project

Completed
The mission of the Software Performance project is to strengthen the scientific foundations of software performance measurement ("metrology for IT"). Its goals are: Application: Replace unreliable common practices with rigorously-studied methods grounded in design of experiments Research: Solve

Speaker and Language Recognition

Ongoing
Current Speaker and Language Recognition technology activities: Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (1996-) A biennial NIST evaluation of fully automated text-independent speaker recognition technology. View the 2012 NIST SRE report. Human Assisted Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (2010- )

Speech Analytics

Ongoing
Current speech analytics work: OpenSAT is a new speech analytic evaluation series designed to include developers from multiple speech analytic technologies where common datasets are used in NIST evaluations. The goal is to bring together developers focused on different speech analytic tasks to
Fig. 1. Die containing 285 superparamagnetic tunnel junctions.

Spintronics for Neuromorphic Computing

Ongoing
Magnetic tunnel junctions (see Fig. 1) consist of two thin films of ferromagnetic material separated by a few atomic layers of an insulating material. The insulator is so thin that electrons can tunnel quantum mechanically through it. The rate at which the electrons tunnel is affected by the

Standards & Testing - Healthcare

Ongoing
Please continue to the Healthcare - Standards & Testing page. The site will provide information about the key health IT testing initiatives underway. It provides an overview of the Health IT Standards Testing Infrastructure as well as educational material on conformance testing, access to Meaningful

Statistical Friction Ridge Analysis (SFRA)

Ongoing
Introduction Friction ridge analysis in crime scene investigation is one of the crucial forensic methods to find the suspects and victims of crime and solve cases. Latent fingerprints—the friction ridge patterns from fingertips left at crime scenes and photographed or lifted from the surfaces—are
Splicing Multiple SRM Correction Factor

Statistical Support for Bioassay Standard Development

Ongoing
Biological assays are procedures that can determine concentration, purity, or biological activity of a substance through scientific experimentation. Fluorescence-based quantification one of the most widely used technique in quantitative clinical and biochemical assays, and it depends on the

Statistics for Ballistics Identification

Ongoing
DESCRIPTION: Statistical Engineering Division has had an ongoing collaboration with NIST's Precision Engineering Division (now Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division) and Office of Law Enforcement Standards (now in the Office of Special Programs) in the field of firearms and tool mark
This figure shows a microscopic image of a field of cells, some of which are pseudocolored red to indicate that these cells remain pluripotent.

Stem Cell Metrology: WSDOM

Ongoing
Stem cells are critical starting materials for advanced therapies and diagnostic devices. The most commonly used are induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) which can be created with any individual’s skin cells, and then can be coaxed to become cells for any tissue of the body. Therapies and

Systems Analysis Integration

Ongoing
Purpose & Goal The purpose of the SAI Project is to reduce redundant and inconsistent information about systems and their analysis across the multiple engineering disciplines involved. Redundant and inconsistent information exists between: Systems and analysis models: discipline-specific analysis

U.S. TAG for ISO/TC276: Biotechnology

Ongoing
Get involved: Interested U.S. Stakeholders may participate in the US TAG at no cost. Membership provides access to all ISO/TC 276 and US TAG documents, including standards under development. Please click here to join. Contribute to standards development: Please click here to review, submit comment

Tattoo Recognition Technology

Ongoing
Tattoo Recognition Technology - Evaluation (Tatt-E) Tatt-E is a large-scale sequestered evaluation of tattoo recognition algorithms to support operationally relevant use cases, including tattoo identification, region of interest, tattoo detection/localization, matching sketches. For more information

Tattoo Recognition Technology-Challenge (Tatt-C)

Completed
Tatt-C Dataset November 2, 2016: NIST has announced a follow-on activity to Tatt-C, which is a large-scale, sequestered evaluation called Tatt-E. Tatt-C Publications September 15, 2015: The first public report on Tatt-C has been published as NISTIR 8078 – Tattoo Recognition Technology – Challenge

Tattoo Recognition Technology-Evaluation (Tatt-E)

Completed
2018-Oct-31: Tatt-E report published The public report on Tatt-E has been published as NISTIR 8232 - Tattoo Recognition Technology - Evaluation (Tatt-E) Performance of Tattoo Identification Algorithms. The report documents empirical evaluation of 12 tattoo recognition algorithms from two providers

Technical Security Guidance Program

Ongoing
This program can increase the security of computer systems, networks, and data. It will increase understanding of new security technologies and the security implications of new IT technologies. Specifically, the program can have the following impacts: - Eliminate duplication of efforts across
Fig. 1. Time re-Envisioned: Not a biproduct of computation but the domain in which information is encoded. Leads to different mathematical functions becoming energy efficient primitives.

Temporal Computing

Ongoing
In standard integrated circuits, information that is coded as ones and zeros is implemented by voltages on wires being high or low. The circuits consume energy during transitions between these voltages. Binary numbers have a voltage per bit so there are a lot of transitions each time a number

Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT 2016)

Ongoing
2017-DEC-15 – TRAIT Final Report now available The outcomes of the TRAIT activity have been published as NISTIR 8199 - The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT). 2016-SEPT-08 – Phase 3 API now available The C++ API for algorithms, validation package , participation
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