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Three-Phase Plan for Smart Grid Standards
Mon, 04/20/2009 - 13:36
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a three-phase plan to expedite development of key standards for a smart grid, a nationwide network that uses…
Improved Quality Control for Plastics Industry
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 11:23
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- In a tour de force of measurement science, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and issued for sale a new test material for calibrating quality control equipment…
October Conference to Spur Bioscience Innovation
Tue, 08/12/2008 - 22:00
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) will cosponsor an international conference on “Accelerating Innovation in 21st Century Biosciences:…
Baldrige Improvement Day(s) Call for Comments
Mon, 06/23/2008 - 22:00
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- The Baldrige National Quality Program strives to continuously improve all aspects of the program to deliver greater value to its customers and stakeholders and to improve the effectiveness of our processes. To that…
Tracking Nanoparticles in 3-D
Wed, 04/09/2008 - 22:00
Heart of the orthogonal tracking microscope system developed at NIST is this nanoparticle solution sample well etched in silicon. Careful orientation of the silicon crystal makes it possible to chemically etch angled sides in…
NIST Report on U.S. Innovation Tags Measurement ChallengesThe USMS assessment will focus first on semiconductors, autos, and software
Wed, 03/14/2007 - 22:00
  (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington, D.C.) -- A new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), An Assessment of the United States Measurement System: Addressing Measurement Barriers to Accelerate…
An Extraordinary Standard: New NIST Protein Could Spur Biopharmaceutical Innovation
Mon, 08/08/2016 - 13:07
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued one of the world’s most intricate measurement standards: an exhaustively analyzed antibody protein that the biopharmaceutical industry will use to help ensure the quality of…
A New Way to Measure Nearly Nothing NIST prototype design uses ultracold trapped atoms to measure pressure.
Fri, 11/16/2018 - 12:01
Many semiconductor fabricators and research labs are under increasing pressure from, of all things, vacuum. These facilities need to remove greater amounts of gas molecules and particles from their setups as new technologies and processes demand…
NIST Researchers Offer Tool to Aid Standards Development, Implementation
Mon, 06/17/2013 - 13:00
The nice thing about standards, it's been said, is that there are so many to choose from.* Though this tongue-in-cheek chestnut might be an exaggeration, it is not grossly so. Thousands of public and private organizations around the world generate…
NIST ‘Big Data’ Framework Will Help Make Sense of Our Data-Drenched AgeFramework supports the creation of tools that can be used in any computing environment.
Mon, 11/11/2019 - 14:22
The NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework (NBDIF) is intended to help create software tools (represented here as a spreadsheet page) that can analyze data using any type of computing platform, and that can be moved from one platform to another…