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News and Updates

NIST Software Tool Improves Your Doctor’s Vaccination Advice

December 21, 2020

Behind the scenes at your doctor’s office, there’s a complicated set of information that your providers have to absorb before telling you which vaccinations to

Face Recognition Software Shows Improvement in Recognizing Masked Faces

December 1, 2020

A new study of face recognition technology created after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that some software developers have made demonstrable progress

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NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Program Enters ‘Selection Round’

July 22, 2020

The race to protect sensitive electronic information against the threat of quantum computers has entered the home stretch. After spending more than three years

Projects and Programs

Quantifying Uncertainty in Accelerometer Sensitivity Studies

To compare the sensitivity of linear accelerometers.

metRology Software Project

The goal of the metRology software project is to provide a set of specialized functions for statistical metrology as a package for the R software environment

Maps of Non-hurricane Non-tornadic Extreme Wind Speeds for the Contiguous United States

The goal of this project is to propose a new set of maps of extreme wind speeds for the next revision of Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures

metRology for Microsoft Excel

The goal of the metRology for Microsoft Excel* software project is to provide a convenient user interface using Microsoft Excel for some of the specialized

Publications

DADS: The On-Line Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

September 17, 2020

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

The Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (DADS) is a publicly accessible dictionary of generally useful algorithms, data structures, algorithmic

Static Analyzers: Seat Belts for Your Code

April 17, 2020

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

Just as seat belt use is wide spread, we argue that the use static analysis should be part of ethical software development. We explain some of the procedures of

Quantities and Units for Software Product Measurements

March 10, 2020

Author(s)

David W. Flater

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 80000, the International System of Quantities, collects and

Improving MC/DC and Fault Detection Strength Using Combinatorial Testing

July 25, 2019

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker

Software, in many different fields and tasks, has played a critical role and even replaced humans to improve efficiency and safety. However, catastrophic

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