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Remembering Paul Garabedian

Author(s)
Geoffrey B. McFadden
Paul R. Garabedian, a leader in the field of computational science, passed away on May 13th, 2010, at his home in Manhattan at the age of 82 after a long battle

State of Security Readiness

Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Peter M. Mell
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly

Blog Track Research at TREC

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo Santos, Iadh Ounis
The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since

Train the Trainer Writing Learning Objectives

Author(s)
Georgia L. Harris
This article is part of a series on Professional Development for NCSLI and Metrology Trainers. This article presents guidance on writing learning objectives for

Smoke Aerosol Measuremen Experiment (SAME)

Author(s)
Jiann Yang, Thomas Cleary, D L. Urban, Gary A. Ruff, William Sheredy, Zeng-guang Yuan, G W. Mulholland
This is the final report of a research project entitled Smoke Aerosol Measurements Experiment (SAME). Smoke and/or fire detection in the spacecraft is crucial

Matrix Relaxation After Fracture In A Toughened Epoxy

Author(s)
Aaron M. Forster, Aurelien Blond, Donald L. Hunston
The inclusion of phase-separated rubber particles in a brittle thermoset matrix has been shown to increase the Mode I fracture energies for a wide range of

3-D Metallization by Damascene Electrodeposition

Author(s)
Thomas P. Moffat, Chang H. Lee, Daniel Josell
Electrodeposition is a key fabrication process used in the state-of-the-art multilevel Cu metallization of microelectronic interconnects from transistor to

Movies of Optical Parametric Downconversion

Author(s)
A Rostapshov, D Martin, D A. Branning, E Dauler, S Thomas, Alan L. Migdall, N Boeuf, Andreas Muller
A series of photos of parametric downconversion are presented in movie format to help illustrate and understand the mechanics of parametric downconversion and

Getting Closer to Redefining the Kilogram

Author(s)
Zeina J. Kubarych
A redefinition to replace the last remaining artifact based SI unit, the kilogram, may occur as early as 2011. This article presents a short summary of the

Interoperability and the DMIS experience

Author(s)
John A. Horst
Because they enable true interoperability, information exchange standards can help manufacturers reduce cost and improve product quality, but only if the

Prospects for a New Cold Neutron Beam Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime

Author(s)
Maynard S. Dewey, Kevin J. Coakley, David M. Gilliam, G. Greene, A. Laptev, Jeffrey S. Nico, William M. Snow, F. E. Wiefeldt, A. Yue
In the most accurate cold neutron beam determination of the neutron lifetime based on the absolute counting of decay protons, the largest uncertainty was

Electronic Vector-Network-Analyzer Verification

Author(s)
Dylan F. Williams, Arkadiusz C. Lewandowski, Denis X. LeGolvan, Ronald A. Ginley
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just introduced a fully electronic measurement verification system for microwave vector-network

Size Measurement of Nanoparticles using Atomic Force Microscopy

Author(s)
Jaroslaw Grobelny, Frank W. DelRio, Pradeep Namboodiri, Doo-In Kim, Vincent A. Hackley, Robert F. Cook
In this assay protocol, procedures for dispersing gold nanoparticles on various surfaces such that they are suitable for imaging and height measurement via

Desirable Properties of Voting Systems

Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Poorvi Vora
This paper provides definitions for some desirable properties of voting systems, including auditability, ballot secrecy, incoercibility, usability and
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