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Four U.S. Companies Named Today As Winners Of The 1997 Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award

October 15, 1997

President Clinton and Commerce Secretary William Daley today announced the winners of the 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in recognition of their...

NIST Names Advisory Board For Manufacturing Extension Partnership

September 18, 1997

Nine prominent industry and economic development leaders have been appointed to serve on the newly created Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Advisory...

NIST to Continue Funding for Chicago Manufacturing Center

September 9, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $2.8 million to fund the Chicago Manufacturing Center for its fourth year...

New Measurement Capabilities to Support Next Generation of Microchips

June 24, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories and the private sector's SEMATECH...

Unit Pricing Changes to Benefit Customers and Retailers are Among the Issues at July Weights and Measures Conference

June 3, 1997

Proposed improvements in the standard that retailers must follow when they voluntarily offer unit pricing information for making value comparisons (between...

New NIST 'Webbook' Offers Collection of Chemistry Data Online

May 30, 1997

Envisioned to replace bulky reference books and trips to research libraries, NIST’s new compilation of chemical and physical data, the NIST Chemistry WebBook...

Another Leap Second is at Hand

May 27, 1997

Though your summer this year may seem all too short, it will actually be the longest one since 1994. There will be exactly one extra second, a little bonus...

NIST to Consider Revised Digital Signature Standard for Federal Agencies

May 13, 1997

In a move intended to broaden the choices federal agencies have when securing information, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...

NIST Fellow William D. Phillips Elected to National Academy of Science

May 13, 1997

William D. Phillips, a leading researcher in laser cooling of atoms at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was elected to the National Academy...

New Technique Helps Scientists Chemically Image Biological and Synthetic Materials

May 5, 1997

Scientists have long relied on infrared spectroscopy as an analytical tool to identify the chemical components of an unknown sample. Likewise, they have used a...

Twenty-Six U.S. Businesses Try For 1997 Baldrige Quality Award

April 22, 1997

Twenty-six U.S. companies, including nine large manufacturers, seven service companies and 10 small businesses, have submitted applications for the 1997 Malcolm...

Cornell Wins NSF Award

April 21, 1997

The National Science Foundation has announced that Eric A. Cornell, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is the 1997 winner of the...

NIST Astronaut's Shuttle Research Seeks Better Understanding of Combustion

April 2, 1997

Gregory T. Linteris, a 39-year-old engineer at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, will be conducting experiments in outer...

Commerce's NIST to Host Year 2000 Symposium

March 20, 1997

To highlight the urgency of fixing a potentially disastrous problem in many of the nation's computer systems, the Commerce Department's National Institute of...

To Make a Fine Point, New NIST Instrument Analyzes Microscope Tips

March 18, 1997

A new research facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology accepts tips six at a time, in fact. But the tips are not of the monetary variety...

New Guidelines May Soon Mean More Buildings Protected By Earthquake Shock Absorbers

March 3, 1997

Slide to the left, slide to the right and don't fall down. No, it's not a new dance, but a building with shock absorbers—a feature that could someday save more...

One More Time: Latest NIST Stock Study Shows Quality Pays

February 10, 1997

Although you won't hear it quoted on the nightly business news or find it listed in the financial section of your newspaper, the "Baldrige Index" is a winner...

FY 1998 Budget Proposes Funding to Establish Education, Health Care Quality Awards

February 7, 1997

Education and health care organizations would have their own award categories as part of President Clinton's fiscal year 1998 budget proposal for the Malcolm...

NIST Cast Iron Standard Is Gold To Steel Industry For 90 Years

January 14, 1997

As scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology well know, standards come and go. Since its start in 1901, NIST (then known as the National...

NIST Begins Process to Develop Advanced Encryption Standard

January 2, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today launched a participatory process with American industry to develop an Advanced Encryption Standard. The...

New Laboratory To Boost Computer, Network Use With Tests For Information Technology

December 9, 1996

U.S. industries and companies that produce information technology as well as those who count on it for reliable health care, efficiency in small businesses...

U.S. Companies May Apply Now For The 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

December 6, 1996

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is inviting applications from American companies for the 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The...

Synthetic Auto Exhaust Helps Car Makers Go With The Flow

December 3, 1996

Why would an environmentally concerned federal agency synthesize auto exhaust? Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...

New Breakthrough Cryogenic X-ray Microcalorimeter Improves Microanalysis Tenfold

December 3, 1996

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a revolutionary new X-ray micro- calorimeter that offers tremendous...

New Directory of U.S. Standards Activities Now Available

November 25, 1996

A new edition of the directory of Standards Activities of Organizations in the United States (SP 806) has been published by the Commerce Department's National...

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