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NIST Releases Second Public Draft of Digital Identity Guidelines for Final Review

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Spotlight: SURF Student Theresa Thomas Helps With Making a Database on the Circular Economy More Accessible

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NIST Hosts Speaker on Building Inclusive Infrastructures in Academia

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Blog Posts

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‌A Summer of Studying Cybersecurity — and Human Error’s Role in Attacks

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A Summer of Science: NIST Interns’ Stories of Their Time in the Lab

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Teaching Computers to Read ‘Industry Lingo’ — Technical vs. Natural Language Processing

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