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Memory with a Twist: NIST Develops a Flexible Memristor

June 2, 2009

Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST

The CNST Welcomes Three New Staff Members

June 2, 2009

Robert Celotta, Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), welcomed three new

NIST Processes to Help Build Next-Generation Nuclear Power Plants

June 2, 2009

Information exchange processes developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be at the center of the effort to design and build

NIST Delivers Updated Draft Standards for Electronic Voting Machines

June 1, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)

ANTD assists in the completion of the IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handovers (MIH) standard specifications

June 1, 2009

January 2009 - The IEEE 802.21 standard was published on January 21, 2009. This is the final realization of a multi-year project to standardize a media

Revision for Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide

June 1, 2009

March 2009 - NIST has drafted an update to the "Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide" (NIST Special Publication 800-81 Rev 1),the key Secure DNS

EEEL Measures High-Order Coherences of Chaotic and Coherent Light

June 1, 2009

Researchers in the Optoelectronics Division of EEEL, in collaboration with colleagues at MIT and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, have demonstrated a new way to measure

NIST Announces Competition for Research Construction Grants

May 27, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the availability of approximately $120

NIST Defining the Expanding World of Cloud Computing

May 20, 2009

A working definition for cloud computing—a new computer technique with potential for achieving significant cost savings and information technology agility—has

NIST Helping Improve Speed Measurements for Cars, Bullets

May 20, 2009

While today's law enforcement officers don't wear utility belts full of crimefighting gadgets like Batman, they do rely on a variety of state-of-the-art

NIST Validation Program Tests Next-Generation Internet Products

May 20, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is establishing a testing program to assure that the U.S. government purchases new computers and

Locke, Chu Announce Significant Steps in Smart Grid Development

May 20, 2009

On May 18, 2009, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced significant progress that will help expedite development of a

NIST Study Finds a Decade of High-Payoff, High-Throughput Research

May 20, 2009

In its first decade of work, a research effort at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop novel and improved "combinatorial"

Congress Approves NIST's Recovery Plan

May 20, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has received Congressional approval on its spending plan for the American Recovery and Reinvestment

Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

May 20, 2009

Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

NIST Engineers Discover Fundamental Flaw in Transistor Noise Theory

May 20, 2009

Chip manufacturers beware: There's a newfound flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic on-off switch that makes

First Labs Approved for Testing Communications Interoperability

May 20, 2009

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC) recently announced that it has recognized the first eight

NIST Public Workshop Set to Advance Smart Grid Development

May 14, 2009

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a second major Smart Grid workshop, May 19-20, in

Congress Approves NIST's Recovery Plan to Create Jobs and Foster Innovation

May 8, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has received Congressional approval on its recovery

Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

May 5, 2009

A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a

Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

May 5, 2009

By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of

NIST Issues First Reference Material for Tissue Engineering

May 5, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week issued its first reference materials to support the new and growing field of tissue

NIST Issues Draft Guide for Automating Computer Security Verification

May 5, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public comment a draft publication describing a new method to automate the task of

NIST Researcher Dan Madrzykowski Named Fire Service Instructor of the Year

May 5, 2009

Daniel Madrzykowski of the National Institute of Standards and Technology was named George D. Post Instructor of the Year for 2009 by the International Society

NIST Physicist James Bergquist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 5, 2009

Physicist James C. Bergquist, a Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) whose research helped usher in the age of optical atomic

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