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2017 TRECVID Workshop: Surveillance Event Detection (SED) Retrospective Task Overview

January 25, 2018

Author(s)

Jonathan G. Fiscus, Martial Michel

This presentation contains the Surveillance Event Detection (SED) Retrospective Task summary and results of the TRECVID '17 evaluation. In this 10th year of the...

The enigmatic vitrification at the ancient hillfort Broborg and its utilization as an analogue for nuclear waste glass.

January 1, 2018

Author(s)

Jamie L. Weaver, Rolf Sjoblom, Eva Hjarthner-Holdar, Carolyn Pearce, Erik Ogenhall, Mia Englund, John McCloy, David Peeler, Albert Kruger

Although the modern understanding of chemistry dates back only around 300 years, many of the processes and products used today were actually originally...

2017 TRECVID MULTIMEDIA EVENT DETECTION EVALUATION PLAN

November 30, 2017

Author(s)

David M. Joy, Jonathan G. Fiscus

TRECVID 2017 Video to Text Description

November 20, 2017

Author(s)

Asad Butt, George Awad, Alan Smeaton

Electronic Version of the 1998 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants

November 7, 2017

Author(s)

Barry N. Taylor, Peter J. Mohr

The 1998 CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants have been derived by P.J. Mohr and B.N. Taylor of the NIST Physics Laboratory under the...

Process Document for the NIST List of Certified Devices

October 24, 2017

Author(s)

Jason D. Kahn

The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 defined responsibilities for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in regards to...

NSRL Kaspersky dataset documentation

October 23, 2017

Author(s)

Alexander J. Nelson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Software Reference Library (NSRL) has created curated releases of the Reference Data Set (RDS...

Phase Retrieval Without Small-Ball Probability Assumptions: Recovery Guarantees for PhaseLift

September 28, 2017

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu, Felix Krahmer

We study the problem of recovering an unknown vector x in R^n from measurements of the form y_i = |a_i^T x|^2 (for i=1,...,m), where the vectors a_i in R^n are...

Advancements in Spintronics

September 25, 2017

Author(s)

Hideo Ohno, Mark D. Stiles, Bernard Dieny

Spintronics is the concept of using the spin degree of freedom to control electrical current to expand the capabilities of electronic devices. Over the last 10...

CCQM K132 Low-Polarity Analytes in a Biological Matrix: Vitamin D Metabolites in Human Serum

September 15, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen Wise, Susan Tai, David L. Duewer

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that occurs primarily in two forms, vitamin D2 and vitamin D3. Vitamin D3 is produced naturally when skin is exposed to UV...

An Elementary Proof of Private Random Number Generation from Bell Inequalities

July 20, 2017

Author(s)

Carl A. Miller

The field of device-independent quantum cryptography has seen enormous success in the past several years, including security proofs for key distribution and...

APPENDIX TO THE REPORT:BILATERAL KEY COMPARISON SIM.T-K6.3 ON HUMIDITY STANDARDSIN THE DEW/FROST-POINT TEMPERATURE RANGE FROM ?30 °C TO 20 °C

July 3, 2017

Author(s)

Peter H. Huang, Christopher Meyer, Julio Brionizio

A Regional Metrology Organization (RMO) Key Comparison of dew/frost point temperatures was carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

APPENDIX TO THE REPORT:BILATERAL KEY COMPARISON SIM.T-K6.2 ON HUMIDITY STANDARDS IN THE DEW/FROST-POINT TEMPERATURE RANGE FROM –20 °C TO 20 °C

July 3, 2017

Author(s)

Peter H. Huang, Christopher Meyer, Enrique Martines-Lopez, Jesus Davila Pacheco, Edgar Mendez-Lango

A Regional Metrology Organization (RMO) Key Comparison of dew/frost point temperatures was carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

A Cross Benchmark Assessment of A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Face Recognition

June 29, 2017

Author(s)

P J. Phillips

SPHINCS-Simpira: Fast Stateless Hash-based Signatures with Post-quantum Security

June 29, 2017

Author(s)

Shay Gueron, Nicky Mouha

We introduce SPHINCS-Simpira, which is a variant of the SPHINCS signature scheme with Simpira as a building block. SPHINCS was proposed by Bernstein et al. at...

Weak is Better: Tightly Secure Short Signatures from Weak PRFs

June 7, 2017

Author(s)

Jacob M. Alperin-Sheriff, Daniel Apon

The Boyen-Li signature scheme [Asiacrypt'16] is a major theoretical breakthrough. Via a clever homomorphic evaluation of a pseudorandom function over their...

Channel Sounder Measurement Verification and Uncertainty

June 2, 2017

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley, Jeanne T. Quimby, Paul D. Hale, Dylan F. Williams, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Rodney W. Leonhardt

This presentation describes channel-sounder measurement verification procedures including options such as comparing measurements to theory, conducted tests of a...

An Analysis Framework and Additive Software Analysis

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

We present a framework for software assurance, in addition to an additive software analysis approach. Both have the potential to dramatically reduce software...

Goals of and Charge to the NIST Workshop on Software Measures and Metrics to Reduce Security Vulnerabilities (SwMM-RSV)

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

The Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan seeks to fundamentally alter the dynamics of security, reversing adversaries' asymmetrical...

SARD: A Software Assurance Reference Dataset

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

Software assurance tools examine code for problems. To test such tools, we need programs with known bugs as ground truth. The Software Assurance Reference...

MediFor Nimble Challenge Evaluation

April 17, 2017

Author(s)

Jonathan G. Fiscus, Haiying Guan, Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Andrew Delgado, Daniel F. Zhou, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah

Standardized Measurements of Collection Efficiency from Wipe-Sampling of Trace Explosives

April 10, 2017

Author(s)

Jennifer R. Verkouteren, Jeffrey A. Lawrence, Matthew E. Staymates, Edward R. Sisco

One of the limiting steps to detecting traces of explosives at screening venues is effective collection of the sample. Wipe-sampling is the most common...

What More Agile Robots Could Mean for Consumers

March 24, 2017

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff

The ways that developers of robots have talked about their craft have been highly specialized to a given domain-and sometimes have varied even within the domain...

Radiometric Metrology for Ocean Color

March 13, 2017

Author(s)

Bettye C. Johnson

This talk covered the topics of uncertainty terminology (in brief), radiometric comparisons, gave an illustration of a spectral radiance scale realization, and...

MOBY Review at Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Color, Frascati, Italy, Feb 21 to 23, 2017

March 13, 2017

Author(s)

Kenneth Voss, B. Carol Johnson, Mark A. Yarbrough, Stephanie J. Flora, Michael Feinholz, Darryl Peters, Terrance Houlihan, Sean Mundell, Sandy Yarbrough, Art Gleason

This talk provided an overview of the MOBY project and the work we are doing now to move the MOBY instrumentation forward into the future. This is the first of...

Bonded Wafers for Three-Dimensional Integration

March 2, 2017

Author(s)

Richard A. Allen

Three-dimensional (3D) integration is a key enabling technology for compact, high-performance, and/or low-power electronics. This technology enables the...

Computer Code for Industrial Wireless Measurement Analysis and Scenario Generation

March 1, 2017

Author(s)

Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany

Computer code developed in MATLAB(R) and Python programming languages to support analysis of NIST industrial wireless measurements and scenario generation using...

Control of Nanophase Defects During Ceramic Melt Processing of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x High Tc Superconductors

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

T J. Haugan, Winnie Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, H J. Brown, L Swartzendruber

To improve the critical current density of Bi 2Sr 2CaCu 2O 8+x high temperature superconductors (HTS) in high magnetic field applications (> 1 T from 20 K to 50...

Computer Code for Tennessee Eastman Industrial Wireless Systems Performance Evaluation

February 6, 2017

Author(s)

Richard Candell

This computer code contains the Tennessee Eastman (TESIM) chemical process model to be simulated using hardware-based simulation approaches. The code is...

Beyond IRBs: Designing Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research

January 25, 2017

Author(s)

Simson L. Garfinkel

Big Data Research is something new, a practice rooted in large-scale data collection that frequently combines aspects of research, experimentation, and...

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