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Quality Experts from Business, Health Care and Education Needed for 1995 Baldrige Quality Award Board of Examiners

June 2, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking quality experts from all sectors of American business, as well as from non-profit health care and...

NIST's New 'Electronic Eye' Improves Accuracy For Lighting Industry

May 31, 1994

In colonial times, lamp makers relied on whale oil-based candles as a standard measure of light. Today, a new "electronic eye" developed at the National...

NIST Announces Accreditation for Calibration Labs Based on International Standards

May 31, 1994

The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology now will accept applications...

Wait A Second, Let's Not Leap Into This Until June 30!

May 24, 1994

"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." – Thomas Hobbes, last words "Look ere ye leap." – Proverbs, John Heywood " Nature does not...

NIST Announces "Digital Signature" Standard For Computer Security

May 20, 1994

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced approval of a Digital Signature Standard, which will allow federal...

Price Verification Tops Technical Program At NCWM 79th Annual Meeting

May 20, 1994

The 79th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures, July 17-21, 1994, in San Diego, Calif., will feature a special technical session on...

New Facility Opens as Part of 65-Year-Old Partnership to Improve Quality of Construction Materials

May 18, 1994

Government and construction industry officials today dedicated a new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help improve the quality...

U.S.-Canada Agree to Recognize Test Results for Weighing and Measuring Devices

May 16, 1994

Weights and measures officials in the United States and Canada have agreed to mutual recognition of test results and examinations of weighing and measuring...

Software Innovations Announced For NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database

April 25, 1994

Two important software innovations have been made to the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database, a major international resource for analytical chemists and...

National Conformity Assessment Program Established To Promote International Trade

April 25, 1994

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has established the National Voluntary Conformity Assessment System Evaluation...

NIST Announces Technical Correction to Secure Hash Standard

April 22, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced it will initiate a technical modification to a computer security standard used to support the...

California Quake Highlights Many Structural Success Stories, Some Major Shortcomings, Says NIST

April 21, 1994

The strong earthquake that struck the Los Angeles area last January 17 provided the first full-scale test of modern seismic structural codes and revealed both...

71 Companies in the Running for 1994 Baldrige Quality Award

April 18, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced today that 71 companies have applied for the 1994 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. They...

NIST Names ASQC as Partner in Administering Baldrige Quality Award

March 31, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the American Society for Quality Control as its contractor to help administer the Malcolm...

Improved Infrared Chemical Analysis Possible With New NIST Invention

March 28, 1994

A new device and technique recently patented by a National Institute of Standards and Technology scientist may lead to dramatic improvements in infrared...

A Blink Of Technology: Femtosecond Chemistry Redefining Molecular Interactions

March 21, 1994

PITTSBURGH—Using ultrafast optics and lasers, physicists and chemists are opening a portal through which they can view the subtlest and quickest changes in...

Federal Funds Available for State Technology Programs from NIST

March 17, 1994

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced funding is available for state projects to plan, coordinate and, in...

Shield for Radiation Therapy Developed in Dental Program at NIST

March 16, 1994

A dental researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has invented a new shielding material and method for protecting healthy body tissues...

NIST, Industry Partners Form Consortium To Help Building Systems Communicate

March 1, 1994

Nine control system manufacturers and one software company have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative research and...

U.S., Canada Renew Laboratory Accreditation Agreement To Spur International Trade

February 22, 1994

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Standards Council of Canada today renewed an agreement to help...

Defense Conversion Funds Make Iowa Manufacturing Technology Center A Reality

February 16, 1994

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown and Congressman Neal Smith (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and...

NIST Calls for Partners in Developing Key Escrowing Hardware

February 4, 1994

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today an opportunity to join a cooperative research consortium for...

NIST Announces Voluntary Escrowed Encryption Standard To Promote Secure Telecommunications

February 4, 1994

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the approval of a voluntary standard that can be used by...

Wozny Named New Head Of NIST Manufacturing Lab

January 14, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that Michael J. Wozny is the new director of the technology agency's Manufacturing Engineering...

Partners Wanted To Help Create "Virtual Library"

January 7, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking industrial and academic partners to join a cooperative research consortium to develop technology...

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