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Conferences

Challenges to Fire Safety in Tall Buildings.

Author(s)
Richard G. Gann
In order to increase the chances of survival during a fire emergency, the time available for a person to leave the danger zone must be longer than the time

Emergency Egress and Access.

Author(s)
Jason D. Averill
Tall buildings present a unique and challenging egress environment. The very aspect ratio which makes tall buildings economically desirable accentuates the

Infrared Emittance Measurements at NIST

Author(s)
Leonard M. Hanssen, Benjamin K. Tsai, Sergey Mekhontsev
A new capability for the measurement of the temperature-dependent emittance of specular samples in the near infrared spectral region has been developed in NIST

High Speed Fiber-Based Quantum Key Distribution using Polarization Encoding

Author(s)
Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Anastase Nakassis, Barry J. Hershman, Joshua Bienfang, Ronald Boisvert, Charles W. Clark, Carl J. Williams, A Gross, E Hagley, J Wen
We have implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with polarization encoding at 850 nm over 1 km of optical fiber. The high-speed management of the

Software Assurances Metrics and Tool Evaluation

Author(s)
Paul E. Black
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) collects software from various sources and

Proximity-Based Authentication for Mobile Devices

Author(s)
Wayne Jansen, Serban I. Gavrila, Vlad Korolev
While mobile handheld devices provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. User authentication is the best safeguard against the risk of

Factors Affecting Development of a Motion Imagery Quality Metric

Author(s)
Charles D. Fenimore, J Irvine, D Cannon, John W. Roberts, S Israel, L Simon, C Watts, J Miller, A Aviles, P F. Tighe, R J. Behrens
The motion imagery community would benefit from the availability of standard measures for assessing image interpretability. The National Imagery

Novelty Detection: The TREC Experience

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Donna K. Harman
A challenge for search systems is to detect not only when an item is relevant to the user's information need, but also when it contains something new which the

Indoor Positioning Using Spatial Power Spectrum

Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, D Kaspar
A simple technique to estimate the position of a given mobile source inside a building is based on the received signal strength. For this methodology to have a
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