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Conferences

The Role of Choice in Discovery

Author(s)
J E. Devaney
The discovery of functional forms can be divided into three tasks:1 - choosing a search technique to find the set of best equationswithin the limitations of...

A Reliable Message Delivery Protocol for Mobile Agents

Author(s)
Mudumbai Ranganathan, M Bednarek, Douglas C. Montgomery
The abstractions and protocol mechanisms that form the basis for inter-agent communications can significantly impact the overall design and effectiveness of...

The Optical Properties of Materials

Author(s)
Eric L. Shirley, J R. Chelikowsky, S G. Louie, G Martinez
This is the end material (e.g. title page, index) for the Materials Research Society Proceedings of a Symposium that the NIST author co-organized.

A Novel Artifact for Testing Large Coordinate Measuring Machines

Author(s)
Steven D. Phillips, Daniel S. Sawyer, Bruce R. Borchardt, David E. Ward, D E. Beutel
We present a high accuracy artifact useful for the evaluation of large CMMs. This artifact can be physically probed by the CMM in contrast to conventional...

Computation of Light Scattered Into Detector

Author(s)
Egon Marx
To compare the measured bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of a rough surface to the results of a computation, we have to take into account...

NIST artifact standards for fiber optic metrology

Author(s)
Paul A. Williams
The primary means of transferring fiber optic calibration metrology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is through artifact standards called...
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