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At Earth from a Distance

Quick, think of a four-letter name beginning with “N” for a federal agency involved in space science.

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NIST Evaluates Face Recognition Software’s Accuracy for Flight Boarding

July 13, 2021

The most accurate face recognition algorithms have demonstrated the capability to confirm airline passenger identities while making very few errors, according

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NIST Proposes Approach for Reducing Risk of Bias in Artificial Intelligence

June 22, 2021

In an effort to counter the often pernicious effect of biases in artificial intelligence (AI) that can damage people’s lives and public trust in AI, the

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NIST Seeks Public Input on Removing Barriers to Voting for People With Disabilities

June 16, 2021

To help foster wider access to voting, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting information from the public about barriers that

Illustration shows how people evaluating two different tasks performed by AI -- music selection and medical diagnosis -- might trust the AI varying amounts because the risk level of each task is different.

NIST Proposes Method for Evaluating User Trust in Artificial Intelligence Systems

May 19, 2021

Every time you speak to a virtual assistant on your smartphone, you are talking to an artificial intelligence — an AI that can, for example, learn your taste in

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NIST’s Inclusive Language Guidance Aims for Clarity in Standards Publications

April 29, 2021

Our choice of language — what we say and how we say it — can have unanticipated effects on our audience, potentially conveying messages other than those we

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