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NIST to Accredit Voting Systems Test Labs
Release Date: 06/30/2005 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a program for accrediting laboratories that will test voting systems and … more
NIST Outlines Support for Health IT Initiative
Release Date: 06/30/2005 President Bush has set a goal of widespread adoption of electronic health records within 10 years so that health information will follow patients … more
Software Advance Helps Computers Act Logically
Release Date: 06/16/2005 Computers just respond to commands, never "thinking" about the consequences. A new software language, however, promises to enable … more
NIST Withdraws Outdated Data Encryption Standard
Release Date: 06/02/2005 Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez recently approved the withdrawal of the Data Encryption Standard (Federal Information Processing Standard … more
NIST Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency
Release Date: 06/02/2005 Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at … more
Software Addresses Terrorist Building Threats
Release Date: 06/02/2005 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) economists have released risk assessment software that building owners and managers can use … more
Quantum Computing Results May Help in Code Breaking
Release Date: 05/18/2005 This colorized image shows the fluorescence from three trapped beryllium ions illuminated with an ultraviolet laser beam. Black and blue areas … more
NIST Issues Final Guidelines on Computer Security Controls for Federal Systems
Release Date: 02/28/2005 The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released its final version of recommended security … more
NIST Demonstrates Data ‘Repair Kit’ for Quantum Computers
Release Date: 12/01/2004 NIST physicists Dietrich Leibfried and David Wineland in the laboratory where they have developed a method for correcting data handling errors for … more
New System ‘Sees’ Crimes on Audiotape
Release Date: 10/26/2004 The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a real-time magnetic imaging system that … more
NIST Study Shows Computerized Fingerprint Matching Is Highly Accurate
Release Date: 07/06/2004 Computerized systems that automatically match fingerprints have become so sophisticated that the best of them are accurate more than 99 percent of … more
NIST Calls for Comments on Draft of Federal Computer Security Controls Guidelines
Release Date: 11/03/2003 Computer scientists at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released an initial public … more
Commerce's NIST Reports Significant Advances Made in Facial Recognition Technology
Release Date: 03/13/2003 Computers have become much more adept at “recognizing” human faces during the past two years, states a report released today … more
NIST: Both Fingerprints, Facial Recognition Needed to Protect U.S. Borders
Release Date: 02/11/2003 Commerce Agency Recommends 'Dual Approach' as Best Option A dual approach that employs both fingerprint and facial recognition technology … more
New Commerce Guidelines to Help Protect Against Cyberattacks
Release Date: 10/29/2002 Federal Agencies, Military and Private Sector to Benefit from NIST Procedures Federal agencies now have a systematic way to evaluate their … more |
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