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FirstSimVR: Measuring Future Tools Using Today's VR 1st place - $20,000 Prize A reconfigurable VR platform for evaluating and...

One Electron, Two Electrons...

September 9, 1999

Researchers at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology will announce in tomorrow’s issue of Science magazine that they have

NIST/CU Scientists First to Observe New Quantum Gas

September 9, 1999

Researchers at JILA, a joint research institute of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at

New High-Speed Fiber Optic Network Connects Federal Labs, University and City

May 2, 2000

Benefits of Bran A new, high-speed fiber-optic network capable of sending the equivalent of scores of encyclopedia sets per second is up and running in Boulder

NIST's Cornell Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 2, 2000

Eric A. Cornell, a physicist at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of

New Commerce Department Magnetic Microscope Helps Retrieve Information From Damaged or Altered Tapes

July 13, 2000

Audio cassettes, video tapes, credit cards and computer disks all store valuable information using very small magnetic tracks. Sometimes, these tracks are

NSCI Seminar: Ten Years of Exascale – Are We There Yet?

Thu, Jan 25 2018

The first set of exascale workshops were held ten years ago in the Spring of 2007. Very quickly it was recognized that

NSCI Seminar: Status Report on High Performance Computing (HPC) in Asia

Tue, Dec 5 2017

US leadership in High Performance Computing (HPC), unquestioned for decades, is now challenged, both in hardware and

NSCI Seminar: Algorithmic Adaptations to Extreme Scale Computing

Mon, Nov 6 2017

Algorithmic adaptations to use next-generation computers close to their potential are underway. Instead of squeezing out

NSCI Seminar: Molecular Modeling at the Mesoscale

Tue, Oct 24 2017

Advances in structural, chemical, and biophysical data acquisition (e.g., protein structures via X-ray crystallography

NSCI Seminar: Novel 2D Material Based Devices for Nanoelectronic Computing

Mon, Sep 25 2017

This talk will discuss recent work in developing novel electronic devices based on the emerging family of two

NSCI Seminar: Ultra-low power artificial synapses to enable large-scale neuromorphic computing

Fri, Sep 15 2017

Neuromorphic computing promises to dramatically improve the efficiency of certain computational tasks, such as

2017 Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Challenge

Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Open Innovation Challenge Winners The winners of the Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Challenge...

ACMD Seminar: Part-of-Math Tagging and Applications

Abdou Youssef Department of Computer Science, George Washington University and NIST Thursday, August 10, 15:00 - 16:00Building 101, Lecture...

ACMD Seminar: Binomial and logarithmic Gegenbauer expansions for the even-dimensional polyharmonic equation

Howard Cohl Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, ITL, NIST Monday, August 7, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00Building 101, Lecture Room...

NIST Locations

NIST operates in two main locations: Gaithersburg, MD (headquarters—234-hectare/578-acre campus) and Boulder, CO (84-hectare/208-acre campus...

Nobel Laureate Wineland to Leave NIST, Accepts Position at University of Oregon

August 1, 2017

Nobel laureate David Wineland announced today that he plans to leave the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this fall and has accepted a

JILA Spinning Method Confirms the Electron Still Seems Round

October 9, 2017

JILA physicists have for the first time used their spinning molecules technique to measure the “roundness” of the electron, confirming the leading results from

Interoperability

Overview The essence of interoperability is to enable various devices to work together to perform common processes and achieve shared goals...

ACMD Seminar: Information-theoretic tools for uncertainty quantification of high dimensional stochastic models

Petr Plechac Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware Friday, July 28, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00Building 101, Lecture Room...

Sub-microscopic LEDs Shed New Light on Advanced Materials

July 12, 2017

One of the persistent challenges in 21 st century metrology is the need to measure ever-more-detailed properties of ever-smaller things, from microchip features

Scientists Lay the Groundwork for a Reliable Marijuana Breathalyzer

July 5, 2017

Marijuana is now legal for recreational or medicinal use in at least 28 states and the District of Columbia. But driving under the influence of marijuana is

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NIST ‘Noise Thermometry’ Yields Accurate New Measurements of Boltzmann Constant

June 29, 2017

By measuring the random jiggling motion of electrons in a resistor, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have contributed to

Newsroom

Press releases all press releases Videos all videos News all articles Blog all blog posts News NIST Releases Second Public Draft of Digital...

ACMD Seminar: Stratification for Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling

Jonathan Weare Department of Statistics, University of Chicago Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 15:30 - 16:30Building 101, Lecture Room FGaithersburg...

NIST Exhibits at the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2017 Conference

Tue, Aug 8 - Thu, Aug 10 2017

NIST will exhibit at the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2017 Conference. San Diego Convention Center Booth # 735 SPIE Optics +

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NIST Exhibits at the NCSL International Workshop & Symposium

Mon, Aug 14 - Thu, Aug 17 2017

NIST will exhibit at the NCSL International Workshop and Symposium. Gaylord National Conference Center Booth #113 NCSL

NIST Awards $38.5 Million to Accelerate Public Safety Communications Technologies

June 13, 2017

BOULDER, Colo. – The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $38.5 million to 33 research and development

Single Photon Workshop 2017, Workshop Planning and Program Committee

Thomas Gerrits (chair), NIST-Boulder Josh Bienfang, NIST-Gaithersburg Christopher Chunnilall, NPL John Lehman, NIST-Boulder Omar Magana...

ACMD Seminar: Towards Fully Accessible Data Visualisation

Volker Sorge School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK Thursday, June 8, 2017, 15:30 - 16:30Building 101, Lecture Room...