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Brain-Inspired Computing Can Help Us Create Faster, More Energy-Efficient Devices — If We Win the Race

March 10, 2023

The most energy-efficient device in the world is your brain, and NIST researchers are using the brain as an inspiration to create the next generation of computer circuits.

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Internships in the Time of COVID: A Q&A With Shelby Platner and NIST's Zach Trautt

January 25, 2021

Across the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), internships are a very important experience for students and staff members alike. But for most of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed the campus to most NIST staff members and prevented traditional internships on campus from happening

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Women’s Body Armor: Staying Ahead of the Curves

August 1, 2016

Jennifer Huergo

As I peer into the cardboard box NIST researcher Amanda Forster holds out for me, I can’t help thinking that this mild-mannered materials scientist has an impressive collection of shivs. The handmade prison weapons include a ballpoint pen with a razor embedded in the shaft and a toothbrush

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Brain-Inspired Computing Can Help Us Create Faster, More Energy-Efficient Devices — If We Win the Race

Internships in the Time of COVID: A Q&A With Shelby Platner and NIST's Zach Trautt

Women’s Body Armor: Staying Ahead of the Curves