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Smart Cities: Bringing Tech Benefits Directly to You

March 25, 2016
Sokwoo Rhee
Earlier this week at NIST, we brought together a diverse group of people who will have a profound influence on the future of our cities and the services provided to their citizens. These 300 leaders from government, industry, and academia came to attend an event called the Global City Team Challenge
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Ida Rhodes and the Problem with ‘Water Goats’

March 16, 2016
Katie Rapp
As a professional reference librarian and amateur history buff at NIST, I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with all kinds of extraordinary individuals. In particular, I have been struck by the number of women who made important contributions to the development of the earliest electronic