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The eyes may be the mirror to the soul, but the iris reveals a person's true identity–its intricate structure constitutes a powerful biometric. A new report by...
A TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND FEDERAL MARKETPLACE EVENT TEDCO, NIST and NIH Present Bio-imaging Technologies For Commercial Adoption On Tuesday, October 6, 2009...
Government agencies and other organizations planning to use WiMAX -- Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access -- networks can get technical advice on...
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...
The Fifth Annual IT Security Automation Conference, co-hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will focus on emerging technologies...
To facilitate audits of election results and making the election process more transparent, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a...
Two publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describe new capabilities for authentication systems using smart cards or other...
A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devices--Mobile ID--has been published by the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are cosponsoring the Biometric Consortium Conference 2009 on...
In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of...
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...
If the shiny new software on your computer or mobile phone runs without crashing, you may have another computer program to thank--a static analyzer. Static...
Creating voting machines that are both trustworthy and easy to use is the goal of the End-to-End Voting Systems Workshop, which should interest anyone concerned...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the final version of an updated publication to help organizations and employees secure...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and the...
A DRAFT of NIST Special Publication 500-267, A Profile for IPv6 in the U.S. Government - Version 1.0 (Draft 2), is now available for public comment. This...
WASHINGTON —The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and National Institute of Standards and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal...
March 2009 - NIST has drafted an update to the "Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide" (NIST Special Publication 800-81 Rev 1),the key Secure DNS...
January 2009 - The IEEE 802.21 standard was published on January 21, 2009. This is the final realization of a multi-year project to standardize a media...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is establishing a testing program to assure that the U.S. government purchases new computers and...
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...
Overworked crime scene investigators can take heart at the results of recent tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of new...