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A Plan for Federal Engagement in Developing AI Technical Standards and Related Tools in response to Executive Order (EO 13859)

NIST has released a plan for prioritizing federal agency engagement in the development of standards for artificial intelligence (AI). The...

The remains of what was once a home improvement store in Joplin, Mo., showing the destructive power of the tornado that struck the area in May 2011.

NIST Awards $6.6 Million for Research to Help Structures Better Withstand Earthquakes, Wind and Fire

August 8, 2019

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding more than $6.6 million to fund research

Team DPSyn

The Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge 2nd Place - $15,000 Prize *An additional $4,000 was awarded for posting their full code...

High Frequency Scanning Probe Microscopy Workshop

Thu, Dec 12 - Fri, Dec 13 2019

Local, near-field probing is a powerful technique for studying electromagnetic material properties with sub-wavelength

Team RMcKenna

The Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge 1st Place - $25,000 Prize *An additional $4,000 was awarded for posting their full code...

ACMD Seminar: Quantifying Flows in Time-Irreversible Markov Chains: Application to a Gene Regulatory Network

Danielle Middlebrooks University of Maryland-College Park, Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing Program Thursday...

2019 PECASE - Varun Verma

For pushing the frontiers of quantum physics through pioneering new devices that detect and count single particles of light, and for serving

2019 PECASE - Kathryn Keenan

For transforming magnetic resonance imaging into a quantitative tool to diagnose and treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases through the

10 NIST Researchers Receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

July 25, 2019

WASHINGTON — Ten researchers from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) received the Presidential Early Career

2019 PECASE - Laura Sinclair

For creating a suite of some of the world’s best optical tools to bring precision measurement out of well-controlled laboratory environments

2019 PECASE - Franklyn Quinlan

For defying prevailing theory from the past 40 years to generate the world’s most stable electromagnetic signals spanning the radiofrequency

ACMD Seminar: Investigating Structure and Reliability in Spiking Neural Networks

Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp SUNY Polytechnic Institute Thursday, August 8, 2019, 1:00-2:00 Building 101, Lecture Room A (VTC from Boulder)...

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NIST’s Compact Atomic Gyroscope Displays New Twists

July 11, 2019

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their compact atomic gyroscope to enable multitasking measurement

ACMD Seminar: Engineering Energy Efficient Intelligence

Natesh Ganesh Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst Thursday, July 25, 1:00-2:00 Building 101, Lecture...

Software and Data Carpentry

NIST actively participates as a member of the Carpentries organization for capacity building of essential knowledge in data and computational skills to further

ACMD Seminar: Model-Free Scientific Computing with Neural Differential Equations

Christopher Rackauckas MIT Department of Mathematics Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 3:00-4:00 Building 100, Lecture Room A Gaithersburg...

ACMD Seminar: Computing Ill-Posed Time-Reversed 2D Navier-Stokes Equations, Using a Stabilized Explicit Finite Difference Scheme Marching Backward in Time

Alfred S. Carasso Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, NIST Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 3:00-4:00 Building 101, Lecture Room D...

Space Commerce Workshop

Thu, Sep 12 2019

Get the workshop report (PDF), including key themes, recommendations, and presentations. The Department of Commerce (DOC

ACMD Seminar: Applications of Constant pH Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Drug Design and Materials Science

Robert Harris University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Monday, July 1, 3:00-4:00 Building 101, Lecture Room D Gaithersburg Monday...

ACMD Seminar: Some fast solvers for models of fluid flow and linear elasticity

Mingchao Cai Department of Mathematics, Morgan State University Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 3:00 - 4:00 PM Building 227, Room A202...

Federal Engagement in Artificial Intelligence Standards Workshop

More than 200 individuals participated in the workshop that NIST hosted on May 30, 2019. The discussions advanced the development of a plan...

ACMD Seminar: Tale of Two Hierarchical Ways of Processing Image Data

Wed, Jun 12 2019, 3:00 - 4:00pm EDT

Prashant Athavale Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Clarkson University Abstract: Many mathematical

CTL NRC Review

CTL NRC Review Read Ahead Materials CTL 2019 NRC Review Agenda CTL OU Overview CTL OU Brochure National Advanced Spectrum and Communications...

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NIST Infrared Frequency Comb Measures Biological Signatures

June 7, 2019

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have demonstrated a compact frequency-comb apparatus that rapidly

NIST Physicists ‘Teleport’ Logic Operation Between Separated Ions

May 30, 2019

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have teleported a computer circuit instruction known as a quantum logic operation

Past Prize Challenges

Since 2017, PSCR has funded Open Innovation prize challenge competitions across a number of research areas including Internet of Things (IoT...

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NIST Team Supersizes ‘Quantum Squeezing’ to Measure Ultrasmall Motion

June 20, 2019

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have harnessed the phenomenon of “quantum squeezing” to amplify and measure trillionths

PSIAP Award Recipient Deploys Technology at the 2019 Boston Marathon

May 20, 2019

First responders need to respond to incidents, communicate, and perform operations even when networks are out of service due to malicious attacks, natural

Candela

Vision is perhaps the most powerful of human senses, and light one of humanity’s age-old metaphors for understanding, wisdom and truth...

Baltimore CitiWatch is a collaborator of PSCR and its award recipients.

Leveraging PSCR research and demonstrating the power of collaboration

May 10, 2019

The NIST Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Program has funded R&D grants in several research organizations under its Public Safety Innovation