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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…
Some Animals Owe Their Lives to Kind Shelter Staff—and the Baldrige Criteria
Thu, 10/02/2014 - 15:22
In June 2012, Professor Ron Schulingkamp’s MBA students at Loyola New Orleans College of Business had a noble goal: help reduce the euthanasia rate in their parish animal shelter. To accomplish that goal, the students introduced the Jefferson…
New Standard Helps Optical Trackers Follow Moving Objects Precisely
Mon, 11/28/2016 - 16:49
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Throwing a perfect strike in virtual bowling doesn’t require your gaming system to precisely track the position and orientation of your swinging arm. But if you’re operating a robotic forklift around a factory,…
Improved fire Alarm Systems for Safer Buildings
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 17:44
A new ISO standard on the design and installation of fire detection and alarm systems will help save lives and protect property and the environment. The purpose of such systems is to be able to detect a fire inside or outside a structure as early…
Lack of Effective Timing Signals Could Hamper ‘Internet of Things’ Development
Tue, 03/24/2015 - 10:31
(NIST: Gaithersgurg, MD) -- Our fast-approaching future of driverless cars and “smart” electrical grids will depend on billions of linked devices making decisions and communicating with split-second precision to prevent highway collisions and power…
NIST Advances Precision Timing for Communications, NavigationCompact chips that seamlessly convert light into microwaves
Mon, 04/01/2024 - 09:50
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its collaborators have delivered a small but mighty advancement in timing technology: compact chips that seamlessly convert light into microwaves. This chip could improve GPS, the quality…
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…