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Guidance for NIST Staff on Using Inclusive Language in Documentary Standards

April 29, 2021
Author(s)
Kathryn Miller, David F. Alderman, Lisa Carnahan, Lily Chen, James Foti, Barbara L. Goldstein, Michael Hogan, Jennifer Marshall, Karen Reczek, Nathalie Rioux, Mary Frances Theofanos, David A. Wollman
This document provides guidance to NIST staff regarding the use of inclusive language in documentary standards and documents which support the realization and dissemination of physical standards; Standards Developing Organizations' (SDOs) policies and

NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap

July 22, 2013
Author(s)
Annie W. Sokol, Michael D. Hogan
NIST has been designated by the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) to accelerate the federal government’s secure adoption of cloud computing by leading efforts to develop standards and guidelines in close consultation and collaboration with standards

NIST-SP 500-291, NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap

August 10, 2011
Author(s)
Michael D. Hogan, Fang Liu, Annie W. Sokol, Tong Jin
The NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap Working Group has surveyed the existing standards landscape for security, portability, and interoperability standards/models/studies/use cases, etc., relevant to cloud computing. Using this available information

Securely Connecting the World with Cyber Security Standards

October 1, 2004
Author(s)
Alicia Clay Jones, Michael Hogan
This paper focuses on some of the key roles that cyber security standards play in securely connecting our cyber world. Cyber security standards can be categorized as technical, management, or testing standards. All three types of standards are necessary to

Biometric Standards -- A Key to a More Secure World

March 1, 2003
Author(s)
Michael D. Hogan, Fernando L. Podio
Biometric technologies are becoming the foundation of an array of highly secure identification and verification solutions. Over the past eighteen months, the U.S has quickly worked to establish formal standards groups for accelerating and harmonizing the

Spotlight - Biometric Authentication -- Are You Who You Claim To Be?

March 1, 2003
Author(s)
Michael D. Hogan
The recent establishment of the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Technical Committee 1/Subcomittee 37 (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37) on Biometrics is a major development in international standardization

Information Technology Measurement and Testing Activities at NIST

February 1, 2001
Author(s)
David Flater, James E. Fowler, Simon P. Frechette, Craig M. Shakarji, Michael Hogan, Shirley M. Radack, Douglas Montgomery, L Johnson, R Rosenthal, R Mccabe, R Carpenter, Lisa Carnahan, M M. Gray
Our high technology society continues to rely more and more upon sophisticated measurements, technical standards, and associated testing activities. This was true for the industrial society of the 20th century and remains true for the information society

Information Technology Measurement and Testing Activities at NIST

January 1, 2001
Author(s)
Michael D. Hogan, Lisa J. Carnahan, Robert J. Carpenter, David W. Flater, James E. Fowler, Simon P. Frechette, M M. Gray, L A. Johnson, R. McCabe, Douglas C. Montgomery, Shirley M. Radack, R Rosenthal, Craig M. Shakarji
Our high technology society continues to rely more and more upon sophisticated measurements, technical standards, and associated testing activities. This was true for the industrial society of the 20th century and remains true for the information society

Software Standards Development - Wherever - However - The Bugs are Free

March 1, 2000
Author(s)
Michael D. Hogan
The perceived tradeoff between the speed of development and the technical soundness of the resulting standards may not be relevant to the development of complex software standards. The market shelf life of a software standard tends to be more dependent

Metrology for Information Technology (IT)

January 1, 1997
Author(s)
Lisa Carnahan, M M. Gray, Michael Hogan, Ted Hopp, Jeffrey Horlick, Gordon E. Lyon, Elena R. Messina
The scope of this white paper is the testing or measuring of digital information technology (IT) systems attributes or proporties; the use of digitial IT systems in testing and measuring; and the underlying mathematical, computational, and statistical