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Commerce Secretary Don Evans has honored 21 local employees of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with Gold and...
A new report issued today by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the first comprehensive set of basic procedures...
More information on the investigation is available at http://wtc.nist.gov. The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today...
A new report issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy finds that neutron probes are becoming increasingly indispensable research tools...
One of the country's pioneering figures in computer security was honored in a special ceremony at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan have taken a significant...
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is postponing a public meeting scheduled for April 22, 2002, in New York City to...
I. BACKGROUND Every year, millions of Americans face disaster, and its terrifying consequences. Natural perils of extreme winds, fires, earthquakes, floods...
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced the signing...
Commerce Secretary Don Evans announced today the release of The Advanced Technology Program: Reform with a Purpose, a report that presents six recommendations...
Commerce Secretary Announces New Standard for Global Information Security (News Release) AES Questions and Answers Oct 2, 2000, News Release on Selection of AES...
The U.S. Senate today confirmed Arden L. Bement Jr. as director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology. The position of...
Commerce Secretary Don Evans has presented 23 employees of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and six former employees...
Two U.S. Department of Commerce agencies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and International Trade Administration, today launched Export Alert...
The following text is a transcript of a press conference hosted by JILA on October 9, 2001. Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman of JILA answered questions from...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today awarded $5 million total in funding for nine research grants that will...
In a Bose-Einstein condensate, virtually all the atoms in the ultra-cold gas fall into the lowest-energy quantum mechanical state. Spread out in space, they...
Vortices are fundamental excitations of gases and liquids. Well-known examples include tornados, whirlpools, and smoke rings. The main characteristic of...
What do gas pumps, truck scales, blood-cholesterol tests, DNA chips, industrial lasers, satellite antennas, aircraft altimeters and bullet-proof vests have in...
A new, streamlined proposal submission and review procedure marks the 2001 Advanced Technology Program (ATP) competition announced today by the National...
Ray Kammer, director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1997, announced today that he will be retiring from the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, has presented its 2000 Edward Bennett Rosa...
Edwin R. Fuller, Jr., Andrew R. Roosen, and Stephen A. Langer, have received the 2000 Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award from the National Institute of...
Seven Maryland employees of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, have been...
For contributions ranging from creating a national assistance program on electronic business for smaller manufacturers to helping settle a 15-year international...