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Traceability, Accreditation, Measurement Accuracy: How to Get It and How to Keep It!

October 12, 2021
Author(s)
C S. Brickenkamp, E L. Garner
… Many of us in the scientific and technological arenas are measurement … to explore traceability and the value of accreditation in the context of the rapidly changing global marketplace of … must be, that is, how much uncertainty they can tolerate in their measurements.* Requiring measurements to be …

Automated Piston Gauge Calibration System.

April 22, 2021
Author(s)
Julia Scherschligt, Yuanchao Yang, Katie M. Schlatter, Robert G. Driver, Christina D. Cross, John S. Quintavalle
… the Pascal. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) operates and maintains a calibration … into the feasibility of using transducers as instantaneous in-situ transfer standards, we now present the results of a … demonstrates an expanded uncertainty on the order of 1 in 105, comparable to the traditional system, but offers a …

Modeling Hierarchical Systems with Operads

November 4, 2020
Author(s)
Spencer Breiner, Olivier Marie Rose, Blake S. Pollard, Eswaran Subrahmanian
… semantics to address the problem of failure diagnosis in complex systems. We start with a concrete example, … operated by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. The model is expressed in terms of combinatorial/diagrammatic structures called …

NIST Special Database 301: Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge Dry Run

July 11, 2018
Author(s)
Gregory P. Fiumara, Patricia A. Flanagan, Matthew Schwarz, Elham Tabassi, Christopher Boehnen
… In April 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects … to ensure that the real data collection event held in September 2017 would be successful. To this end, real … to be collected. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), on behalf of IARPA, has released a dataset …

Characterisation of New Planar Radiometric Detectors using Carbon Nanotube Absorbers under Development at NIST

June 13, 2018
Author(s)
Malcolm G. White, Nathan A. Tomlin, Christopher S. Yung, Michelle S. Stephens, Ivan Ryger, Solomon I. Woods, John H. Lehman, Igor Vayshenker
… Carbon nanotube technology, in conjunction with silicon micro-fabrication techniques, has … wavelength spectrum from the ultraviolet to the THz region in a single detector, suitable for use with both coherent and … Conference on New Developments and Applications in Optical Radiometry …

Time Distribution Alternatives for the Smart Grid Workshop Report

November 13, 2017
Author(s)
Allen R. Goldstein
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the Time Distribution Alternatives … to global positioning system (GPS) time distribution in electrical power systems. The information gained will …

Labeling Requirements for Packages Labeled Using In-Store Scales

March 7, 2017
Author(s)
David A. Sefcik
… In the early 1950s, it became popular for supermarkets to offer random weight packaged meats and produce using in-store scales. The Uniform Packaging and Labeling … of Identity, Responsibility and Quantity. Due to the technology limitations in the printers of that era, specific …

A comment on the PCAST report: Skip the "match"/"non-match" stage

March 1, 2017
Author(s)
Geoffrey S. Morrison, David H. Kaye, David J. Balding, Duncan Taylor, Phillip Dawid, Colin Aitken, Simone N. Gittelson, Grzegorz Zadora, Bernard Robertson, Sheila Willis, Susan Pope, Martin Neil, Kristy A. Martire, Amanda Hepler, Richard Gill, Allan Jamieson, Jacob de Zoete, R. B. Ostrum, Amke Caliebe
… This letter comments on the report "Forensic science in criminal courts: Ensuring scientific validity of … by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The report advocates a procedure for … of forensic evidence that is a two-stage procedure in which the first stage is "match"/"non-match" and the …

60 Year Anniversary of Applied Radiation and Isotopes

December 14, 2016
Author(s)
Bert M. Coursey
… Volume 1, No.1 from 1956 with an issue from Volume 118 in 2016. The range of applications has shifted away from … immediately struck by the high quality of the science and technology, and the rigor in the presentation of results, which have been hallmarks of …

Accurate, Traceable, and Verifiable Time Synchronization for World Financial Markets

October 7, 2016
Author(s)
Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew N. Novick, George Neville-Neil, Ben Cooke
… describes how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through a collaboration with Perseus, is … and verifiable time synchronization to stock exchanges in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The paper describes …

Preparation of entangled states through Hilbert space engineering

September 28, 2016
Author(s)
Yiheng Lin, John P. Gaebler, Florentin Reiter, Ting R. Tan, Ryan S. Bowler, Yong Wan, Adam C. Keith, Emanuel Knill, Kevin Coakley, Dietrich Leibfried, David J. Wineland, Scott Glancy
… improving current approaches. Here, we create entanglement in atomic ions by applying laser fields to constrain evolution to a restricted number of states, in an approach that has become known as quantum Zeno … . Compared to other methods of producing entanglement in trapped ions, this procedure is relatively insensitive to …

Design of a Table-Top Watt Balance

July 26, 2016
Author(s)
Stephan Schlamminger, Jon R. Pratt, David B. Newell, Frank C. Seifert, Michael Liu, Leon S. Chao, Luis Manuel Pea Prez, Shisong Li, Darine El Haddad
… System of units (SI) is planned and likely to occur in 2018. In the revised SI, watt balances can be used to realize the … recently built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The capacity of these table top watt balance is …

Dual-comb spectroscopy

April 14, 2016
Author(s)
Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury, William C. Swann
… summarizes the current state-of-the-art. As frequency comb technology progresses, dual-comb spectroscopy will continue …

Towards a Systematic Threat Modeling Approach for Cyber-physical Systems

December 15, 2015
Author(s)
Goncalo Martins, Sajal Bhatia, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Keith A. Stouffer, CheeYee Tang, Rick Candell
… to safeguard them against a wide range of attacks. In this paper, it is argued that an effective approach to … such systems, commonly achieved via threat modeling. In this context, a tool to perform systematic analysis of … mitigated using National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards. …

Progress on Vacuum-to-Air Mass Calibration System Using Magnetic Suspension to Disseminate the Planck-constant Realized kilogram

November 1, 2015
Author(s)
Eric Benck, Corey A. Stambaugh, Edward C. Mulhern, Patrick J. Abbott, Zeina J. Kubarych
… The kilogram is the unit of mass in the International System of units (SI) and has been … of the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) since 1889. In the future, a new definition of the kilogram will be based … by necessity, so the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a mass calibration system in …

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 1, Big Data Definitions

October 22, 2015
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang, Nancy Grady, NBD-PWG NIST Big Data Public Working Group
… Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor- laden, … of data is outpacing scientific and technological advances in data analytics. To advance progress in Big Data, the NIST Big Data Public Working Group (NBD-PWG) …
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