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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Randomized Hashing for Digital Signatures

Author(s)
Quynh H. Dang
NIST-approved digital signature algorithms require the use of an approved cryptographic hash function in the generation and verification of signatures. Approved...

Stopwatch and Timer Calibrations (2009 edition)

Author(s)
Jeff C. Gust, Robert M. Graham, Michael A. Lombardi
Stopwatch and timer calibrations are perhaps the most common calibrations performed in the field of time and frequency metrology. Hundreds of United States...

Maintenance and Validation of Liquid-in-Glass Thermometers

Author(s)
Christina D. Cross, Dean C. Ripple, Gregory F. Strouse
Liquid-in-glass thermometers are pervasive in use throughout industry and provide a convenient method for measuring temperature over for a broad range of...

Overview of the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Arjen de Vries
The goal of the enterprise track is to conduct experiments with enterprise data that reflect the experiences of users in real organizations. This year, the...

Overview of the TREC 2007 Blog Track

Author(s)
Ian Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
The goal of the Blog track is to explore the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. It aims to create the required in- frastructure to facilitate...

Calibration of Hygrometers with the Hybrid Humidity Generator

Author(s)
Christopher Meyer, Joseph Hodges, Peter H. Huang, W. Wyatt Miller, Dean Ripple, Gregory E. Scace
We describe here the calibration of customer hygrometers using a new humidity generator that has been commissioned at the National Institute of Standards and...

Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track

Author(s)
Hoa T. Dang, Diane Kelly, Jimmy Lin
The TREC 2007 question answering (QA) track contained two tasks: the main task consisting of series of factoid, list, and ``Other'' questions organized around a...

Overview of the TREC 2006 Question Answering Track

Author(s)
Hoa T. Dang, Jimmy Lin, Diane Kelly
The TREC 2006 question answering track contained two tasks: a main task and a complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) task. As in 2005, the main task...

NIST Standard Reference Materials Catalog 2004

Author(s)
J W. Thomas, Yvonne Branden, R D. Howard
This catalog provides technical and general ordering information for the Standard Reference Materials [SRMs] and Reference Materials [RMs] currently available...

Forum Report: Permissive Metric Only Labeling

Author(s)
Kenneth S. Butcher
Report on the Forum on Metric-only Labeling held on November 7, 2002, in Washington, DC. The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National...

Household Weights and Measures (NIST SP 430) 2004

Author(s)
Kenneth S. Butcher
The purpose of this publication is to present in a convenient form the weights and measures tables most useful for household purposes, together with associated...
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