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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting nominations of qualified individuals for its nine existing Federal Advisory Committees
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The Baldrige Fellows, an executive development program centered on forming relationships with and learning from Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
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On July 15, 2010, two Department of Commerce Agencies—the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Telecommunications and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued draft recommendations for securely configuring and using full virtualization technologies
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After a public comment period, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published an updated set of guidelines for developing security
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an ion trap with a built-in optical fiber that collects light emitted
CNST Researchers have combined scanning probe microscopy with novel nanofabrication and microtomy approaches to measure photocurrent variations with nanoscale
Cybersecurity training is spreading from high-tech and government offices into high schools, libraries and workplaces near you. Called the National Initiative