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Just in time for October's Cyber Security Awareness Month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a guide to help small
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To facilitate audits of election results and making the election process more transparent, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its final version of a publication that represents a major step toward building a unified
Dianne O'Leary and G. W. (Pete) Stewart, Faculty Appointees in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division, have been named Fellows of the Society for
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and the
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal
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A working definition for cloud computing—a new computer technique with potential for achieving significant cost savings and information technology agility—has
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
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Karen Scarfone and Matthew P. Barrett received the 2009 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer
Ron Ross, senior computer scientist and information security researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been named to the
Highlighting another challenge to the development of quantum computers, theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown that a
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened for public comment detailed new methods for testing future electronic voting systems'