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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is running the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE), the first large-scale evaluation...
Cyber attackers are constantly scanning the Internet looking for vulnerabilities in computer systems that will enable them to take control and use the systems...
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used charged atoms (ions) to demonstrate a quantum physics version of computer...
Software that is poorly designed, inappropriate for specific tasks or just difficult to use can be frustrating, unproductive and costly for both businesses and...
To help federal agencies improve their information technology security and comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, the...
To help federal agencies comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Computer scientists at the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released for public comment...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting papers, presentations and other submissions for a workshop on Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2005, in...
President Bush has set a goal of widespread adoption of electronic health records within 10 years so that health information will follow patients throughout...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a program for accrediting laboratories that will test voting systems and components in...
Computers just respond to commands, never "thinking" about the consequences. A new software language, however, promises to enable computers to reason much more...
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez recently approved the withdrawal of the Data Encryption Standard (Federal Information Processing Standard 46-3) and two...
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) economists have released risk assessment software that building owners and managers can use to identify...
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released its final version of recommended security controls for federal...
A practical method for automatically correcting data-handling errors in quantum computers has been developed and demonstrated by physicists at the National...
Computerized systems that automatically match fingerprints have become so sophisticated that the best of them are accurate more than 99 percent of the time...
Computer scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released an initial public draft of NIST Special...
Computers have become much more adept at "recognizing" human faces during the past two years, states a report released today by the Commerce Department's...
A dual approach that employs both fingerprint and facial recognition technology is the best option for a biometric system that would make the nation's borders...
Federal agencies now have a systematic way to evaluate their computer security as a result of guidelines announced today by Commerce Under Secretary for...
Deputy Secretary of Commerce Sam Bodman and National Federation of the Blind (NFB) President Marc Maurer today announced that the Commerce Department's National...
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published four new computer security guides that are the latest in a...
Seeing is believing, unless you're blind or visually impaired. To this group, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) says, "try feeling is...
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...